Bill Text: CA SB604 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: rules of the road.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-07 - From Assembly without further action. [SB604 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB604-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 604	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 7, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 18, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 15, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 8, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Weber)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 22520.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 604, as amended, Anderson. Vehicles: rules of the road.
   Existing law prohibits a person from soliciting, displaying,
selling, offering for sale, or otherwise vending or attempting to
vend any merchandise or service while being wholly or partly within
any of specified places, including, but not limited to, the
right-of-way of any freeway, including any on ramp, off ramp, or
roadway shoulder which lies within the right-of-way of the freeway,
or any roadway or adjacent shoulder within 500 feet of a freeway off
ramp or on ramp. A violation of these provisions constitutes an
infraction.  Existing law also permits a charity, as defined,
to engage in a solicitation for charitable purposes that involves
persons standing in a public roadway soliciting contributions from
passing motorists if the persons to be engaged in the solicitation
are law enforcement personnel, firefighters, or other specified
persons who are soliciting solely in an area that is within the
service area of that local agency, and the charity files an
application with the relevant jurisdiction, as specified. 
   This bill would authorize a city or county to enact an ordinance
to prohibit a person from soliciting, displaying, selling, offering
for sale, or otherwise vending or attempting to vend any merchandise
or service while being wholly or partly within any center median that
is within 300 feet of an intersection controlled by a traffic
control signal.  The bill would exempt from the prohibition a
charity engaged in solicitation for charitable purposes if the
persons soliciting are law enforcement personnel, firefighters, or
other persons, as specified. The bill would make technical
and conforming changes. 
   Because this bill expands the definition of an existing crime, it
would impose a state-mandated local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program:  yes
  no  .


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22520.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

   22520.5.  (a) A person shall not solicit, display, sell, offer for
sale, or otherwise vend or attempt to vend any merchandise or
service while being wholly or partly within any of the following:
   (1) The right-of-way of any freeway, including any on ramp, off
ramp, or roadway shoulder that lies within the right-of-way of the
freeway.
   (2) Any roadway or adjacent shoulder within 500 feet of a freeway
off ramp or on ramp.
   (3) Any sidewalk within 500 feet of a freeway off ramp or on ramp,
when vending or attempting to vend to vehicular traffic.
   (b) A city or county may enact an ordinance to prohibit a person
from soliciting, displaying, selling, offering for sale, or otherwise
vending or attempting to vend any merchandise or service while being
wholly or partly within any center median that is within 300 feet of
an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal,
except as authorized by Section 17510.25 of the Business and
Professions Code.   signal   . 
   (c) Subdivisions (a) and (b) do not apply to a roadside rest area
or vista point located within a freeway right-of-way that is subject
to Section 22520.6, to a tow truck or service vehicle rendering
assistance to a disabled vehicle, or to a person issued a permit to
vend upon the freeway pursuant to Section 670 of the Streets and
Highways Code.
   (d) A violation of subdivision (a) or (b) is an infraction. A
second or subsequent conviction of a violation of subdivision (a) or
(b) is a misdemeanor. 
  SEC. 2.   No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a
new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or
changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a
crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution.