Senate Bill No. 953

Introduced by Senator Roth

February 6, 2014

An act to amend Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 953, as introduced, Roth. Vehicles: parking: public grounds.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle or animal, or stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle or animal, whether attended or unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds of specified public entities, including a public transportation agency, except with the permission of, and upon and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by, the governing body of the specified public entity. Existing law authorizes a public transportation agency that imposes any condition or regulation upon a person who parks or leaves standing any vehicle, pursuant to these provisions, to enforce that condition or regulation in the same manner generally provided for the enforcement of parking regulations or designate specific employees for the purpose of removing the vehicle in the same manner as a city, county, or jurisdiction of a state agency is authorized pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law defines a public transportation agency, for purposes of these provisions, as a public agency that provides public transportation, as specified.

This bill would include the Riverside County Transportation Commission within the definition of public transportation agency.

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 21113 of the Vehicle Code is amended
to read:

21113.  

(a) A person shall not drive begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert vehicle or animal,
or stop, park, or leave standing begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert vehicle or animal, whether
attended or unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking
facilities, or the grounds of any public school, state university,
state college, unit of the state park system, county park, municipal
airport, rapid transit district, transit development board, transit
district, begin insert public transportation agency, end insert joint powers agency
operating or managing a commuter rail system, or any property
under the direct control of the legislative body of a municipality,
or begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert state, county, or hospital district institution or building,
or begin delete any end delete begin insert an end insert educational institution exempted, in whole or in part,
from taxation, or any harbor improvement district or harbor district
formed pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5800) or Part
3 (commencing with Section 6000) of Division 8 of the Harbors
and Navigation Code, a district organized pursuant to Part 3
(commencing with Section 27000) of Division 16 of the Streets
and Highways Code, or state grounds served by the Department
of the California Highway Patrol, or any property under the
possession or control of a housing authority formed pursuant to
Article 2 (commencing with Section 34240) begin insert of Chapter 1 end insert of Part
2 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, except with the
permission of, and upon and subject to any condition or regulation
that may be imposed by the legislative body of the municipality,
or the governing board or officer of the public school, state
university, state college, county park, municipal airport, rapid
transit district, transit development board, transit district, begin insert public
transportation agency, end insert joint powers agency operating or managing
a commuter rail system, or state, county, or hospital district
institution or building, or educational institution, or harbor district,
or a district organized pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section
27000) of Division 16 of the Streets and Highways Code, or
housing authority, or the Director of Parks and Recreation
regarding units of the state park system or the state agency with
jurisdiction over the grounds served by the Department of the
California Highway Patrol.

(b) A governing board, legislative body, or officer shall erect
or place appropriate signs giving notice of any special conditions
or regulations that are imposed under this section and the governing
board, legislative body, or officer shall also prepare and keep
available at the principal administrative office of the governing
board, legislative body, or officer, for examination by all interested
persons, a written statement of all those special conditions and
regulations adopted pursuant to this section.

(c) When a governing board, legislative body, or officer permits
public traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or
grounds under their control then, except for those conditions
imposed or regulations enacted by the governing board, legislative
body, or officer applicable to the traffic, all the provisions of this
code relating to traffic upon the highways shall be applicable to
the traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds.

(d) A public transportation agency that imposes any condition
or regulation upon a person who parks or leaves standing begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert
vehicle, pursuant to subdivision (a), is authorized to do either of
the following:

(1) Enforce that condition or regulation in the manner provided
in Article 3 (commencing with Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of
Division 17 of this code. The public transportation agency shall
be considered the issuing agency for that purpose.

(2) Designate regularly employed and salaried employees, who
are engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and
regulations, for the purpose of removing any vehicle in the same
manner as a city, county, or jurisdiction of a state agency pursuant
to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 22650) of Division 11
of this code.

(e) With respect to the permitted use of vehicles or animals on
property under the direct control of the legislative body of a
municipality, no change in the use of vehicles or animals on the
property, that had been permitted on January 1, 1976, shall be
effective unless and until the legislative body, at a meeting open
to the general public, determines that the use of vehicles or animals
on the property should be prohibited or regulated.

(f) A transit development board may adopt ordinances, rules,
or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of
bicycles, motorized bicycles, skateboards, and roller skates on
property under the control of, or any portion of property used by,
the board.

(g) A public agency, including, but not limited to, the Regents
of the University of California and the Trustees of the California
State University, may adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or
specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles,
skateboards, and roller skates on public property under the
jurisdiction of that agency.

(h) “Housing authority,” for the purposes of this section, means
a housing authority located within a county with a population of
over six million people, and any other housing authority that
complies with the requirements of this section.

(i) “Public transportation agency,” for purposes of this section,
means a public agency that provides public transportation as
defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 1 of Article
XIX A of the California Constitution begin insert or the Riverside County
Transportation Commission created pursuant to Section 130050
of the Public Utilities Code end insert .