Bill Text: CA AB1486 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1486 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Vehicles: toll highways.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1486 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1486-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1486	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Obernolte

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 23251 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1486, as introduced, Obernolte. Vehicles: toll highways.
   Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway
Patrol to provide for the proper and adequate policing of all toll
highways and all vehicular crossings to ensure enforcement of the
Vehicle Code and of any other law relating to the use and operation
of vehicles upon toll highways, highways or vehicular crossings, and
of the rules and regulations of the Department of Transportation as
they relate to those laws, and to cooperate with the Department of
Transportation to the end that vehicular crossings are operated at
all times in a manner as to carry traffic efficiently.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 23251 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   23251.  (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall
provide for proper and adequate policing of all toll highways and all
vehicular crossings to ensure the enforcement thereon of this code
and of any other law relating to the use and operation of vehicles
upon toll highways, highways or vehicular crossings, and of the rules
and regulations of the Department of Transportation  in
respect thereto   as they relate to those laws  ,
and to cooperate with the Department of Transportation to the end
that vehicular crossings  be   are 
operated at all times in a manner as to carry traffic efficiently.
The authority of the Department of the California Highway Patrol is
exclusive except as to the authority conferred by law upon the
Department of Transportation in respect to vehicular crossings.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a private operator of a toll
highway may make temporary arrangements, not to exceed 30 days, for
traffic law enforcement services with an agency that employs peace
officers as described in Section 830.1 of the Penal Code, if the
Department of the California Highway Patrol cannot fulfill its
responsibilities as described in this section, as determined by the
Secretary of  the Business, Transportation and Housing
Agency.   Transportation. 
   (c) The services provided by the Department of the California
Highway Patrol for all toll highways that are operated by a private
entity shall be reimbursed pursuant to Section 30809.1 of the Streets
and Highways Code. If the private operator of a toll highway and the
Department of the California Highway Patrol reach an impasse in
negotiating an agreement for reimbursement, the Secretary of 
the Business,  Transportation  and Housing Agency
 shall assist in resolving the impasse.