BILL NUMBER: SB 1388	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier
   (Coauthors: Senators Price and Wyland)
   (  Coauthor:  Assembly Member 
 Jeffries   Coauthors:   Assembly
Members   Jeffries   and Bonnie Lowenthal  )

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 22508.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
parking.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1388, as amended, DeSaulnier. Parking: inoperable parking
meters.
   Existing law authorizes a local authority to establish parking
meter zones and fix the rate or fees for those zones by ordinance.
Existing law further authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance,
cause streets and highways to be marked with white lines designating
parking spaces and require vehicles to park within the parking
spaces.
   This bill would authorize a local authority to adopt an ordinance
or resolution prohibiting or restricting the parking of a vehicle at
an inoperable parking meter    or inoperable parking
payment center  , as defined. The bill would also authorize
 the  parking at an inoperable parking meter for up
to the posted time limit  ,  if no ordinance or
resolution has been adopted to prohibit it.
   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 22508.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   22508.5.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a vehicle may
park  in any parking space  , for up to the posted
time limit,  for which parking   in any parking
space that  is subject to an inoperable parking meter or  an
inoperable  parking payment center.
   (b) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or
restrict the parking of vehicles at inoperable parking meters 
or inoperable parking payment centers  . No ordinance or
resolution adopted by a local authority pursuant to this section
shall become effective until signs or markings giving adequate notice
of the restriction or prohibition on parking have been placed at
parking locations, parking meters, or parking payment centers.
   (c) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Inoperable parking meter" means a meter located next to and
designated for an individual parking space,  or the parking
payment center closest to the space where a person has parked, which
does not accept payment in any form, does not register that a payment
in any form has been made, or does not issue a required receipt
  which has become inoperable and cannot accept payment
in any form or cannot register   that a payment in any form
has been made  . 
   (2) "Parking payment center" means an electronic parking meter
serving one or more parking spaces that dispenses time receipts that
are required to be displayed in a conspicuous location on or in the
vehicle or otherwise authorizes parking for payment of a fee.
 
    (2) "Inoperable parking payment center" means an electronic
parking meter or pay station serving one or more parking spaces that
is closest to the space where a person has parked and which cannot
accept payment in any form, cannot register that a payment in any
form has been made, or cannot issue a receipt that is required to be
displayed in a conspicuous location on or in the vehicle.