California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 1 - Public Offenses

  • Section 42000.
    Unless a different penalty is expressly provided by this code, every person convicted of a felony for a violation of any provision of this code...
  • Section 42000.1.
    Notwithstanding Section 42001, every person convicted of an infraction for a violation described in subdivision (b) of Section 22348 shall be punished by a fine...
  • Section 42000.5.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 22350, 22406, or 22407 while operating a bus, motor truck, or truck tractor having...
  • Section 42001.
    (a) Except as provided in this code, a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of this code or of a local ordinance adopted pursuant...
  • Section 42001.1.
    (a) Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 2815 or a violation of subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 22526 at an...
  • Section 42001.2.
    (a) A person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 27153.5 with a motor vehicle having a manufacturer’s maximum gross vehicle weight rating of...
  • Section 42001.3.
    (a) Violations of Section 34506.3, with respect to any regulation adopted under Section 34501 relative to the maintenance of driving logs, shall be punishable by a...
  • Section 42001.4.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for violation of Section 23117 shall be punished as follows:(a) By a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50)...
  • Section 42001.5.
    (a) A person convicted of an infraction for a violation of subdivision (i) or (l) of Section 22500, or of Section 22522, shall be punished by...
  • Section 42001.6.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 22511.1 is punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100).No part of any...
  • Section 42001.7.
    (a) Every person convicted of a violation of Section 23111 or 23112, or subdivision (a) of Section 23113, shall be punished by a mandatory fine of...
  • Section 42001.8.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 4000 shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50)...
  • Section 42001.9.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 23135 shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars ($50).(Added by Stats. 1978,...
  • Section 42001.10.a.
    Every person convicted for a violation of Section 38020 shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) for a first...
  • Section 42001.11.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 21655.5 or 21655.8 shall be punished as follows:(a) For a first conviction, a fine of...
  • Section 42001.12.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 21806 shall be punished as follows:(a) For a first conviction, by a fine of not...
  • Section 42001.13.
    (a) A person who commits a violation of Section 22507.8 is subject to either a civil notice of parking violation pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with...
  • Section 42001.14.
    (a) Every person convicted of an infraction for the offense of disconnecting, modifying, or altering a required pollution control device in violation of Section 27156 shall...
  • Section 42001.15.
    Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of subdivision (a) or (c) of Section 21453, subdivision (c) of Section 21454, or subdivision (a)...
  • Section 42001.16.
    (a) Every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of subdivision (c) of Section 21752, subdivision (c) of Section 22526, or Section 22450, involving railroad...
  • Section 42001.17.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 21951 shall be punished as follows:(a) For the first...
  • Section 42001.18.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every person convicted of an infraction for a violation of Section 21971 shall be punished as follows:(a) For the first...
  • Section 42001.19.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person convicted of a violation of Section 21070 is punishable, as follows:(a) For a violation involving bodily injury, by...
  • Section 42001.20.a.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who violates subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27000 is punishable as follows:(a) By a fine of one...
  • Section 42001.25.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who violates Section 23140 is punishable as follows:(a) By a fine of one hundred dollars ($100).(b) For a second...
  • Section 42002.
    Unless a different penalty is expressly provided by this code, every person convicted of a misdemeanor for a violation of any of the provisions of...
  • Section 42002.1.
    A person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of Section 2800, 2801, or 2803, insofar as it affects a failure to stop and submit to inspection...
  • Section 42002.4.
    A violation of Section 10751 shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months if the value of the property does...
  • Section 42002.5.
    Notwithstanding Section 42002, every person convicted of a violation of Section 10852 or 10853 involving a vehicle that has been modified for the use of...
  • Section 42003.
    (a) A judgment that a person convicted of an infraction be punished by a fine may also provide for the payment to be made within a...
  • Section 42004.
    For the purpose of determining the penalty to be imposed pursuant to this code, the court may consider a written report from the Department of...
  • Section 42004.5.
    Upon conviction of any violation of any provision of this code, other than a felony violation and except this section, execution of sentence of imprisonment...
  • Section 42005.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, after a deposit of the fee under Section 42007 or bail, a plea of guilty or no contest,...
  • Section 42005.1.
    The court may order a person designated to attend a traffic violator school to instead participate in a study of traffic violator schools licensed pursuant...
  • Section 42005.3.
    (a) A local authority shall not allow a person who is alleged to have committed a traffic offense in violation of this code, or an ordinance...
  • Section 42005.5.
    Notwithstanding Section 46300 or 84500 of the Education Code or any other provision of law, on and after September 1, 1985, attendance at a school...
  • Section 42006.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), there may be levied a special assessment in an amount equal to one dollar ($1) for every fine, forfeiture,...
  • Section 42007.
    (a) (1) The clerk of the court shall collect a fee from every person who is ordered or permitted to attend a traffic violator school pursuant to...
  • Section 42007.1.
    (a) The amount collected by the clerk pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 42007 shall be in an amount equal to the total bail set forth...
  • Section 42007.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 42007, revenues derived from fees collected under Section 42007 from each person required or permitted to attend traffic violator school pursuant to Section...
  • Section 42007.4.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 42007, revenues derived from fees collected under Section 42007 from each person required or permitted to attend traffic violator school pursuant to Section...
  • Section 42008.
    (a) Any county may operate an amnesty program for delinquent fines and bail imposed for an infraction or misdemeanor violation of the Vehicle Code, except parking...
  • Section 42008.5.
    (a) A county may establish a one-time amnesty program for fines and bail that have been delinquent for not less than six months as of the...
  • Section 42008.7.
    (a) The State of California continues to face a fiscal and economic crisis affecting the State Budget and the overall state economy. In light of this...
  • Section 42008.8.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a one-time infraction amnesty program would do all of the following:(1) Provide relief to individuals who have found themselves in...
  • Section 42009.
    (a) For an offense specified in subdivision (b), committed by the driver of a vehicle within a highway construction or maintenance area, during any time when...
  • Section 42010.
    (a) For an offense specified in subdivision (b) that is committed by the driver of a vehicle within an area that has been designated as a...

Last modified: October 22, 2018