Bill Text: CA SB166 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Senate Bill 166 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Special occupancy parks.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-19 - Stricken from Senate file. [SB166 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB166-Enrolled.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 166	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 9, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 3, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Runner

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2009

   An act to add Section 18871.12 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to special occupancy parks.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 166, Runner. Special occupancy parks.
   Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to adopt regulations for special occupancy parks that
establish requirements which the department has determined to be
reasonable and necessary for the protection of life and property and
which take into consideration any special conditions, including
location, physical environment, density of usage, type of operation,
type of vehicles to be accommodated, and duration of occupancy.
Pursuant to these provisions, the department has adopted a regulation
that prohibits a truck camper from being occupied if it has been
removed from the truck.
   This bill would supersede that regulation and instead make it a
crime for any person to occupy a truck camper, as defined, that has
been dismounted from a truck or other vehicle, unless the special
occupancy park management approves the truck camper for occupancy if
removed from the truck or other vehicle, and other specified
requirements are met.
   By creating a new crime, this bill 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.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 18871.12 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   18871.12.  Notwithstanding Sections 18865.3 and 18871.10, it is
unlawful for any person to occupy a truck camper, as defined in
Section 18013.4, that has been dismounted from a truck or other
vehicle, unless the special occupancy park management approves the
truck camper for occupancy if removed from the truck or other vehicle
and all of the following requirements are met:
   (1) The truck camper shall be equipped with a permanently mounted
jack on each of its four corners.
   (2) The truck camper jacks shall be placed on footings that have a
minimum ground contact of at least eight square inches and that have
a minimum nominal thickness of two inches.
   (3) Immediately upon removal from the truck or other vehicle, the
truck camper shall be lowered to no more than 12 inches and no less
than six inches from the ground at its lowest point and shall be
reasonably level.
   (4) The truck camper shall not remain in the special occupancy
park in a dismounted state for more than 30 consecutive days or a
period of time established at the discretion of park management,
whichever is less.
   (5) The owner or occupant of the truck camper shall have a readily
available, operable vehicle on which to remount the truck camper if
the dismounted truck camper becomes unstable.
  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.