BILL NUMBER: AB 1014	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 6160 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1014, as introduced, Galgiani. Vehicles: title.
   Existing law makes a statement of legislative intent regarding the
need for the amendment of the record of title of a vehicle when that
vehicle is exported out of the United States.
    This bill would make nonsubstansive, technical changes to that
statement of intent.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 6160 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   6160.  The Legislature finds and declares that when 
vehicles are   a vehicle is  exported and 
their   its  title  records 
 are   record     is  not
amended to reflect exportation, it is conducive to vehicle theft and
insurance fraud.  The certificates   A
certificate  of title issued by  this state are
 the State of California could be  used in insurance
 frauds   fraud  in which a claimant
falsely states that a vehicle has been stolen or uses that
certificate to fraudulently procure insurance when in fact the
vehicle has previously been exported from the United States. In the
interest of the general welfare of the  people  
citizens  of this state, and in order to combat vehicle theft
and insurance fraud, it is necessary that the department's record of
title reflect the fact that a vehicle is being exported either
temporarily or permanently, based upon the true owner's declaration
prior to exportation.