Bill Text: CA AB2491 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Vehicles: stopping, standing, and parking.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-09-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 358, Statutes of 2016. [AB2491 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2491-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2491 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 358
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 23, 2016
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 29, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 19, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 8, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 13, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 20, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Nazarian
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to add Section 22500.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2491, Nazarian. Vehicles: stopping, standing, and parking.
Existing law prohibits a person from stopping, parking, or leaving
standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with
the directions of a peace officer or official traffic control device,
in designated places, including, among other places, within 15 feet
of the driveway entrance to any fire station. A violation of this
provision is subject to a civil penalty.
This bill would authorize a local authority to, by ordinance,
prohibit a person from stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle within
15 feet of a driveway that is used by certain emergency vehicles to
enter or exit a police department, ambulance service provider
facility, or general acute care hospital, except as specified, and
would require a local authority that enacts that ordinance to provide
appropriate curb markings or "KEEP CLEAR" pavement markings and post
appropriate signs that delineate this prohibited area.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 22500.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
22500.2. (a) A local authority may, by ordinance, prohibit a
person from stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle, whether
attended or unattended, except if necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer
or official traffic control device, within 15 feet of a driveway
that is used by an emergency vehicle owned or operated by a police
department, ambulance service care provider, or general acute care
hospital, to enter or exit a police station, ambulance service
provider facility, or general acute care hospital. This section does
not apply to any vehicle owned or operated by a fire department,
police department, ambulance service provider, or general acute care
hospital, if the vehicle is clearly marked as a fire department
vehicle, police department vehicle, ambulance, or general acute care
hospital vehicle.
(b) A local authority that enacts an ordinance pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall provide appropriate curb markings or "KEEP
CLEAR" pavement markings and post signs that delineate the area
specified in subdivision (a).
