Bill Text: CA SB953 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: parking: public grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-15 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 192, Statutes of 2014. [SB953 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB953-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 953	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Roth

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2014

   An act to amend Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 953, as amended, Roth. Vehicles: parking: public grounds.
   Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle or animal,
or stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle or animal,
whether attended or unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking
facilities, or grounds of specified public entities, including a
public transportation agency, except with the permission of, and upon
and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by,
the governing body of the specified public entity. Existing law
authorizes a public transportation agency that imposes any condition
or regulation upon a person who parks or leaves standing any vehicle,
pursuant to these provisions, to enforce that condition or
regulation in the same manner generally provided for the enforcement
of parking regulations or designate specific employees for the
purpose of removing the vehicle in the same manner as a city, county,
or jurisdiction of a state agency is authorized pursuant to
specified provisions of law. Existing law defines a public
transportation agency, for purposes of these provisions, as a public
agency that provides public transportation, as specified.
   This bill would include  the Riverside County
Transportation Commission   county transportation
commissions in the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and
San Bernardino  within the definition of public transportation
agency.
   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 21113 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   21113.  (a) A person shall not drive a vehicle or animal, or stop,
park, or leave standing a vehicle or animal, whether attended or
unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or the
grounds of any public school, state university, state college, unit
of the state park system, county park, municipal airport, rapid
transit district, transit development board, transit district, public
transportation agency, joint powers agency operating or managing a
commuter rail system, or any property under the direct control of the
legislative body of a municipality, or a state, county, or hospital
district institution or building, or an educational institution
exempted, in whole or in part, from taxation, or any harbor
improvement district or harbor district formed pursuant to Part 2
(commencing with Section 5800) or Part 3 (commencing with Section
6000) of Division 8 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, a district
organized pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 27000) of
Division 16 of the Streets and Highways Code, or state grounds served
by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, or any property
under the possession or control of a housing authority formed
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 34240) of Chapter 1 of
Part 2 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, except with the
permission of, and upon and subject to any condition or regulation
that may be imposed  by   by,  the
legislative body of the municipality, or the governing board or
officer of the public school, state university, state college, county
park, municipal airport, rapid transit district, transit development
board, transit district, public transportation agency, joint powers
agency operating or managing a commuter rail system, or state,
county, or hospital district institution or building, or educational
institution, or harbor district, or a district organized pursuant to
Part 3 (commencing with Section 27000) of Division 16 of the Streets
and Highways Code, or housing authority, or the Director of Parks and
Recreation regarding units of the state park system or the state
agency with jurisdiction over the grounds served by the Department of
the California Highway Patrol.
   (b) A governing board, legislative body, or officer shall erect or
place appropriate signs giving notice of any special conditions or
regulations that are imposed under this section and the governing
board, legislative body, or officer shall also prepare and keep
available at the principal administrative office of the governing
board, legislative body, or officer, for examination by all
interested persons, a written statement of all those special
conditions and regulations adopted pursuant to this section.
   (c) When a governing board, legislative body, or officer permits
public traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or
grounds under their control then, except for those conditions imposed
or regulations enacted by the governing board, legislative body, or
officer applicable to the traffic, all the provisions of this code
relating to traffic upon the highways shall be applicable to the
traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds.
   (d) A public transportation agency that imposes any condition or
regulation upon a person who parks or leaves standing a vehicle,
pursuant to subdivision (a), is authorized to do either of the
following:
   (1) Enforce that condition or regulation in the manner provided in
Article 3 (commencing with Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division
17 of this code. The public transportation agency shall be considered
the issuing agency for that purpose.
   (2) Designate regularly employed and salaried employees, who are
engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and
regulations, for the purpose of removing any vehicle in the same
manner as a city, county, or jurisdiction of a state agency pursuant
to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 22650) of Division 11 of this
code.
   (e) With respect to the permitted use of vehicles or animals on
property under the direct control of the legislative body of a
municipality, no change in the use of vehicles or animals on the
property, that had been permitted on January 1, 1976, shall be
effective unless and until the legislative body, at a meeting open to
the general public, determines that the use of vehicles or animals
on the property should be prohibited or regulated.
   (f) A transit development board may adopt ordinances, rules, or
regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of
bicycles, motorized bicycles, skateboards, and roller skates on
property under the control of, or any portion of property used by,
the board.
   (g) A public agency, including, but not limited to, the Regents of
the University of California and the Trustees of the California
State University, may adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or
specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles,
skateboards, and roller skates on public property under the
jurisdiction of that agency.
   (h) "Housing authority," for the purposes of this section, means a
housing authority located within a county with a population of over
six million people, and any other housing authority that complies
with the requirements of this section.
   (i) "Public transportation agency," for purposes of this section,
means a public agency that provides public transportation as defined
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 1 of Article XIX A of
the California Constitution or  the Riverside County
Transportation Commission     a  
county transportation commission  created pursuant to Section
130050 of the Public Utilities Code.