Bill Text: CA AB1099 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: motor carriers: inspection of terminals

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-26 - In committee: Set, final hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1099 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1099-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1099	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 4755 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1099, as amended, Bonnie Lowenthal. Commercial motor vehicles:
emissions standards.
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse
registration, or renewal or transfer of registration, for any
commercial motor vehicle with a declared gross or combined gross
vehicle weight that exceeds 10,000 pounds if the owner or operator of
the motor vehicle at the time of the application has been cited for
a violation of specified air quality standards pertaining to that
vehicle or regulations adopted by the State Air Resources Board,
until the violation has been cleared, as determined by that board.
   This bill would require the department, effective January 1, 2012,
to refuse registration for commercial motor vehicle that is subject
to the above provisions that is of a 1996 or older model year and
requires a class A or B commercial driver's license to operate
 , unless the owner or operator of the commercial motor
vehicle can demonstrate that its engine complies with heavy-duty
diesel engine emissions standards applicable on or after 1996 as
adopted by the State Air Resources Board  .
   The bill would exempt from this requirement a commercial motor
vehicle registered in California prior to January 1, 2012, if
commercial motor vehicle is continuously registered, as specified, or
is certified nonoperational after January 1, 2012.
   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 4755 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   4755.  (a) The department shall refuse registration, or renewal or
transfer of registration, for any commercial motor vehicle subject
to Section 4000.6, if the owner or operator of the motor vehicle at
the time of the application has been cited for a violation,
pertaining to that vehicle, of Division 26 (commencing with Section
39000) of the Health and Safety Code or regulations of the State Air
Resources Board adopted pursuant to that division, until the
violation has been cleared, as determined by the State Air Resources
Board.
   (b) (1) Effective January 1, 2012, the department shall refuse
registration for commercial motor vehicle subject to Section 4000.6
that is of a 1996 or older model year and requires a class A or B
commercial driver's license to operate  , unless the owner or
operator of the commercial motor vehicle can demonstrate that its
engine complies with heavy-duty diesel engine emissions standards
applicable on or after 1996 as adopted by the State Air Resources
Board.   . 
   (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a commercial motor vehicle
registered in California prior to January 1, 2012, if the commercial
motor vehicle is continuously registered pursuant to Section 9400.1
or 9407 on and after January 1, 2012, or is certified nonoperational
pursuant to Section 4604 after January 1, 2012.