Bill Text: CA SB236 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public streets, highways, and public service easements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 353, Statutes of 2015. [SB236 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB236-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 236	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Beall

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2015

   An act to amend Section 555 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
pedestrian travel.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 236, as introduced, Beall. Pedestrian travel: stairways.
   Existing law defines "sidewalk" for purposes of the Vehicle Code
to mean a portion of a highway, other than a roadway, set apart by
curbs, barriers, markings, or other delineation for pedestrian
travel.
   This bill would exempt from this definition of "sidewalk" a
stairway used or designated primarily for pedestrian travel.
   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 555 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   555.  "Sidewalk" is that portion of a highway, other than the
roadway, set apart by curbs, barriers, markings  ,  or other
delineation for pedestrian travel.  A stairway used or
designated primarily for pedestrian travel is not a sidewalk.