BILL NUMBER: SB 811	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 4750.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 811, as introduced, DeSaulnier. Vehicles: specially constructed
vehicles.
   Existing law, upon application for registration of a vehicle
previously registered outside this state, requires the Department of
Motor Vehicles to grant full faith and credit to the currently valid
certificate of title describing the vehicle, the ownership thereof,
and the liens thereon, issued by the state in which the vehicle was
last registered. Existing law also requires the department to require
upon registration of a motor vehicle, previously registered outside
this state, a valid certificate of compliance, or a certificate of
noncompliance, with California's emission regulations. Existing law
additionally requires specially constructed vehicles, depending on
various criteria, to be subject to different emission inspection and
control requirements based on the engine model year, the vehicle
model year, or the calendar year in which the application for vehicle
registration is submitted.
   This bill would require specially constructed vehicles, as
defined, that were previously registered outside this state to be
subject to emission control and inspection requirements applicable to
the same calendar year that the vehicle was originally constructed
as a specially constructed vehicle.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 4750.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   4750.2.  Notwithstanding Section 4304 or 4750.1, if the
application for registration of a vehicle previously registered
outside this state is for a specially constructed vehicle, as defined
in Section 580, the vehicle is subject to emission control and
inspection requirements applicable to the same calendar year that the
vehicle was originally constructed as a specially constructed
vehicle, unless otherwise modified by Section 44017.4 of the Health
and Safety Code.