BILL NUMBER: AB 345	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to amend Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 345, as introduced, Atkins. Vehicles: traffic control devices:
consultation.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to consult
with local agencies before adopting rules and regulations prescribing
uniform standards and specifications for official traffic control
devices.
   This bill would additionally require the department to consult
with groups representing users of streets, roads, and highways, as
defined.
   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 21400 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   21400.   (a)    The Department of Transportation
shall, after consultation with local agencies  and groups
representing users of streets, roads, and highways,  and public
hearings, adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform standards
and specifications for all official traffic control devices placed
pursuant to this code, including, but not limited to, stop signs,
yield right-of-way signs, speed restriction signs, railroad warning
approach signs, street name signs, lines and markings on the roadway,
and stock crossing signs placed pursuant to Section 21364. 
   The 
    (b)     The  Department of
Transportation shall, after notice and public hearing, determine and
publicize the specifications for uniform types of warning signs,
lights, and devices to be placed upon a highway by any person engaged
in performing work which interferes with or endangers the safe
movement of traffic upon that highway. 
   Only 
    (c)     Only  those signs, lights, and
devices as are provided for in this section shall be placed upon a
highway to warn traffic of work  which   that
 is being performed on the highway. 
   Any 
    (d)     Any  control devices or
markings installed upon traffic barriers on or after January 1, 1984,
shall conform to the uniform standards and specifications required
by this section. 
   (e) For the purposes of this section, "users of streets, roads,
and highways" means bicyclists, children, persons with disabilities,
motorists, movers of commercial goods, pedestrians, users of public
transportation, and seniors.