BILL NUMBER: SB 1454	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 4852 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1454, as introduced, La Malfa. Vehicles: license plates: number
and character specifications.
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon
registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner two partially or fully
reflectorized license plates or devices for a motor vehicle and
requires that the number and letter characters on the plates have a
minimum height of 23/4 inches, a minimum width of 11/4 inches, and a
minimum spacing of characters of 5/16 of an inch.
   This bill would instead require that the number and letter
characters on the license plates have a minimum width of 13/16
inches, and a minimum spacing of characters of 1/4 of an inch.
   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 4852 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   4852.  (a) License plates issued for motor vehicles, other than
motorcycles, shall be rectangular in shape, 12 inches in length and
six inches in width. The number and letter characters on the plates
shall have a minimum height of two and three-quarter inches, a
minimum width of one and  one-quarter  
three-sixteenths  inches, and a minimum spacing between
characters of  five-sixteenths   one-quarter
 of an inch.
   (b) Motorcycle license plates shall measure seven inches in length
and four inches in width, and the characters on the plates shall
have a minimum height of one and one-half inches and a minimum width
of nine-sixteenths inches, and shall have a minimum spacing between
characters of three-sixteenths of an inch.