Bill Text: CA SB1388 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Parking: parking meters.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 70, Statutes of 2012. [SB1388 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1388-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1388	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  70
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 10, 2012
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 10, 2012
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 25, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 18, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 13, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier
   (Coauthors: Senators Price and Wyland)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Jeffries and Bonnie Lowenthal)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 22508 of, and to add Section 22508.5 to,
the Vehicle Code, relating to parking.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1388, DeSaulnier. Parking: parking meters.
   Existing law prohibits a local authority from establishing parking
meter zones and fixing the rate or fees for those zones, except by
ordinance. Existing law further authorizes a local authority to, by
ordinance, cause streets and highways to be marked with white lines
designating parking spaces and require vehicles to park within the
parking spaces.
   This bill would authorize a local authority to fix a variable rate
of fees for those zones, based upon criteria identified by the local
authority in the ordinance, and would authorize a local authority to
accept payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device. The bill
also would authorize 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. The bill would authorize parking at an inoperable parking
meter for up to the posted time limit if no ordinance or resolution
has been adopted to prohibit it.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 22508 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   22508.  (a) A local authority shall not establish parking meter
zones or fix the rate of fees for those zones except by ordinance.
The rate of fees may be variable, based upon criteria identified by
the local authority in the ordinance. An ordinance establishing a
parking meter zone shall describe the area that would be included
within the zone.
   (b) A local authority may by ordinance cause streets and highways
to be marked with white lines designating parking spaces and require
vehicles to park within the parking spaces.
   (c) An ordinance adopted by a local authority pursuant to this
section with respect to any state highway shall not become effective
until the proposed ordinance has been submitted to and approved in
writing by the Department of Transportation. The proposed ordinance
shall be submitted to the department only by action of the local
legislative body and the proposed ordinance shall be submitted in
complete draft form.
   (d) An ordinance adopted pursuant to this section establishing a
parking meter zone or fixing rates of fees for that zone shall be
subject to local referendum processes in the same manner as if the
ordinance dealt with a matter of purely local concern.
   (e) A local authority may accept but shall not require payment of
parking meter fees by a mobile device.
  SEC. 2.  Section 22508.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, 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
subject to an inoperable parking meter or an inoperable parking
payment center.
   (b) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or
restrict the parking of vehicles at inoperable parking meters or
inoperable parking payment centers. No ordinance or resolution
adopted by a local authority pursuant to this section shall 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.