Bill Text: CA AB61 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Parking: parking meters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 71, Statutes of 2013. [AB61 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB61-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 61	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  71
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 12, 2013
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 12, 2013
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 3, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        JANUARY 7, 2013

   An act to amend, add, and repeal Section 22508.5 of the Vehicle
Code, relating to parking meters.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 61, Gatto. Parking: parking meters.
    Existing law authorizes 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. Existing law authorizes parking at an inoperable parking
meter for up to the posted time limit if no ordinance or resolution
has been adopted to prohibit it.
   This bill would prohibit a local authority from enacting an
ordinance or resolution prohibiting or restricting the parking of a
vehicle in a parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking
meter or inoperable parking payment center, as defined, until
January 1, 2017.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 22508.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   22508.5.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a vehicle may
park, for up to the posted time limit, in any parking space that is
regulated by an inoperable parking meter or an inoperable parking
payment center.
   (b) A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or
restrict the parking of vehicles in a parking space regulated by an
inoperable parking meter or inoperable parking payment center. An
ordinance or resolution adopted by a local authority pursuant to this
section shall not 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, which has become
inoperable and cannot accept payment in any form or cannot register
that a payment in any form has been made.
   (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 that 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.
   (d) This section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2014, and
shall remain inoperative until January 1, 2017.
  SEC. 2.  Section 22508.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   22508.5.  (a) A vehicle may park, for up to the posted time limit,
in any parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking
meter or an inoperable parking payment center.
   (b) A local authority shall not, by ordinance or resolution,
prohibit or restrict the parking of vehicles in a space that is
regulated by an inoperable parking meter or inoperable parking
payment center.
   (c) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Inoperable parking meter" means a meter located next to and
designated for an individual parking space, which has become
inoperable and cannot accept payment in any form or cannot register
that a payment in any form has been made.
   (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 that 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.
   (d)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2017,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends that date.