Bill Text: CA AB213 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Vehicles: parking.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-14 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB213 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB213-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 213	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   An act to amend Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 213, Bonnie Lowenthal. Vehicles: parking.
   Existing law generally requires a vehicle, stopped or parked upon
a roadway where there are adjacent curbs, to be stopped or parked
with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel with and within 18
inches of the right-hand curb, with specified exceptions, including
authorizing a vehicle to be stopped or parked with the left-hand
wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb on a
one-way roadway.
   This bill would authorize the City of Long Beach to permit
vehicles to park on the left-hand side of the roadway parallel to and
within 18 inches of the left-hand curb on a two-way local
residential street that dead-ends with no designated area in which to
turn around provided that the city makes a finding, supported by a
professional engineering study, that the ordinance or resolution is
justified by the need to facilitate the safe and orderly movement of
vehicles, and the applicable streets are demarcated with signs or
markings giving adequate notice of the parking allowances.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   22502.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a
vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent
curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the
vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb,
except that motorcycles shall be parked with at least one wheel or
fender touching the right-hand curb. Where no curbs or barriers bound
a two-way roadway, right-hand parallel parking is required unless
otherwise indicated.
   (b) The provisions of subdivision (a) or (e) do not apply to a
commercial vehicle if a variation from the requirements of
subdivision (a) or (e) is reasonably necessary to accomplish the
loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers on, or from, the
vehicle and while anything connected with the loading, or unloading,
is being executed.
   This subdivision does not permit a vehicle to stop or park upon a
roadway in a direction opposite to that in which traffic normally
moves upon that half of the roadway on which the vehicle is stopped
or parked.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), local authorities may, by
ordinance, prohibit commercial vehicles from stopping, parking, or
standing on one side of a roadway in a business district with the
wheels of the vehicle more than 18 inches from the curb. The
ordinance shall be effective only if signs are placed in the areas to
which it is applicable clearly indicating the prohibition.
   (d) This section does not apply to vehicles of a public utility
when the vehicles are being used in connection with the operation,
maintenance, or repair of facilities of the public utility or are
being used in connection with providing public utility service.
   (e) Upon a one-way roadway, vehicles may be stopped or parked as
provided in subdivision (a) or with the left-hand wheels parallel to
and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, except that motorcycles,
if parked on the left-hand side, shall have either one wheel or one
fender touching the curb. Where no curb or barriers bound a one-way
roadway, parallel parking on either side is required unless otherwise
indicated.
   This subdivision does not apply upon the roadways of a divided
highway.
   (f) The City of Long Beach may, by ordinance or resolution, permit
vehicles to park on the left-hand side of the roadway parallel to
and within 18 inches of the left-hand curb on two-way local
residential streets that dead-end with no cul-de-sac or other
designated area in which to turn around, if the City of Long Beach
has first made a finding, supported by a professional engineering
study, that the ordinance or resolution is justified by the need to
facilitate the safe and orderly movement of vehicles on the roadways
affected by the resolution or ordinance. The ordinance or resolution
may designate certain streets or portions of streets on which the
permission applies. The ordinance or resolution permitting that
parking shall not apply until signs or markings giving adequate
notice have been placed near the designated roadways.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because Long Beach residents require safer access into and out of the
uniquely impacted streets, to decrease the potential for "fender
benders" and to give residents better access to their homes and
apartments.