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• California Vehicle Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Vehicle Code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under the code repealed by this code, which offices are continued by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5
  If any portion of this code is held unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of any other portion of this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 6
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these general provisions and rules of construction shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 7
  Division, chapter, and article headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 8
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the power...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9
  Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required by this code, it shall be made in writing in the English language.
• California Vehicle Code Section 10
  Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law, such reference shall apply to all amendments and additions...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned and "subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
• California Vehicle Code Section 13
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Vehicle Code Section 14
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• California Vehicle Code Section 15
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Vehicle Code Section 16
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Vehicle Code Section 17
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness...
• California Vehicle Code Section 18
  Officers and employees of the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of the California Highway Patrol are, for the purposes of this code, authorized...
• California Vehicle Code Section 19
  Whenever the acknowledgement of any document is required by this code or any regulation of either department, the signature of the applicant attested to in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20
  It is unlawful to use a false or fictitious name, or to knowingly make any false statement or knowingly conceal any material fact in any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of this code are applicable and uniform throughout the State and in all counties and municipalities therein, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 22
  Whenever notice is required to be given under this code by a department or any division, officer, employee, or agent, the notice shall be given...
• California Vehicle Code Section 23
  The giving of notice by personal delivery is complete upon delivery of a copy of the notice to the person to be notified. The giving...
• California Vehicle Code Section 24
  Proof of the giving of notice may be made by the certificate of any officer, employee, or agent of the Department of Motor Vehicles and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 24.5
  All civil process in actions brought against the director and the Department of Motor Vehicles and all subpoenas for the production of department records shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 25
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to display or cause or permit to be displayed any sign, mark, or advertisement indicating an official connection...
• California Vehicle Code Section 25.5
  It is unlawful for any person to falsely represent himself or herself in any manner as an employee of the Department of Motor Vehicles for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 27
  Any person who without authority impersonates, or wears the badge of, a member of the California Highway Patrol with intention to deceive anyone is guilty...
• California Vehicle Code Section 28
  (a) Whenever possession is taken of any vehicle by or on behalf of any legal owner thereof under the terms of a security agreement or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 29
  Wherever any notice or other communication is required by this code to be mailed by registered mail by or to any person or corporation, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 30
  It is declared as a matter of legislative policy that red lights and sirens on vehicles should be restricted to authorized emergency vehicles engaged in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 31
  No person shall give, either orally or in writing, information to a peace officer while in the performance of his duties under the provisions of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 32
  Whenever local authorities are given the power to take action by ordinance pursuant to Division 11 (commencing with Section 21000) and Division 15 (commencing with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 100
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, these definitions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 102
  "Ability to respond in damages" means financial responsibility.
• California Vehicle Code Section 105
  An "agricultural water-well boring rig" is a motor vehicle which is used exclusively in the boring of water-wells on agricultural property.
• California Vehicle Code Section 108
  "Airbrakes" means a brake system using compressed air either for actuating the service brakes at the wheels of the vehicle or as a source of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 109
  "Alcoholic beverage" includes any liquid or solid material intended to be ingested by a person which contains ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 110
  "Alley" is any highway having a roadway not exceeding 25 feet in width which is primarily used for access to the rear or side entrances...
• California Vehicle Code Section 111
  "All-terrain vehicle" means a motor vehicle subject to subdivision (a) of Section 38010 which is all of the following: (a) Designed for operation off of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 111.3
  An "all-terrain vehicle safety instructor" is a person who is sponsored by an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization, who has completed a course in all-terrain...
• California Vehicle Code Section 111.5
  An "all-terrain vehicle safety training organization" is any organization which is approved to offer a program of instruction in all-terrain vehicle safety, including all-terrain vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 112
  "Amber" has the same meaning as "yellow," and is within the chromaticity coordinate boundaries for yellow specified in regulations adopted by the Department of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 115
  An "armored car" is a vehicle that is equipped with materials on either the front, sides, or rear for the protection of persons therein from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 165
  An authorized emergency vehicle is: (a) Any publicly owned and operated ambulance, lifeguard, or lifesaving equipment or any privately owned or operated ambulance licensed by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 165.5
  No act or omission of any rescue team operating in conjunction with an authorized emergency vehicle as defined in Section 165, while attempting to resuscitate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 166
  An "autobroker" or "auto buying service" is a dealer, as defined in Section 285, who engages in the business of brokering, as defined in Section
• California Vehicle Code Section 175
  An "autoette" is a motor vehicle, located on a natural island with an area in excess of 20,000 acres and that is within a county...
• California Vehicle Code Section 210
  An "automated enforcement system" is any system operated by a governmental agency, in cooperation with a law enforcement agency, that photographically records a driver's responses...
• California Vehicle Code Section 220
  An "automobile dismantler" is any person not otherwise expressly excluded by Section 221 who: (a) Is engaged in the business of buying, selling, or dealing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 221
  (a) The term "automobile dismantler" does not include any of the following: (1) The owner or operator of any premises on which two or more...
• California Vehicle Code Section 223
  Any reference in this code to "automobile driver training" shall be deemed to refer to the laboratory phase of driver education described by Section 51852...
• California Vehicle Code Section 225
  An "auxiliary dolly" is a vehicle, not designed for carrying persons or property on its own structure, which is so constructed and used in conjunction...
• California Vehicle Code Section 230
  An "axle" is a structure or portion of a structure consisting of one or more shafts, spindles, or bearings in the same vertical transverse plane...
• California Vehicle Code Section 230.5
  A "B-train assembly" is a rigid frame extension attached to the rear frame of a semitrailer which allows for a fifth wheel connection point for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 231
  A bicycle is a device upon which any person may ride, propelled exclusively by human power through a belt, chain, or gears, and having one...
• California Vehicle Code Section 232
  The "board" is the New Motor Vehicle Board.
• California Vehicle Code Section 232.5
  "Brokering" is an arrangement under which a dealer, for a fee or other consideration, regardless of the form or time of payment, provides or offers...
• California Vehicle Code Section 233
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a "bus" is any vehicle, including a trailer bus, designed, used, or maintained for carrying more than 15...
• California Vehicle Code Section 234
  A "business" includes a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and any other form of commercial enterprise.
• California Vehicle Code Section 235
  A "business district" is that portion of a highway and the property contiguous thereto (a) upon one side of which highway, for a distance of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 236
  A "business representative" means a proprietor, a limited or general partner, a managerial employee, a stockholder, a director, or an officer who is active in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 240
  In determining whether a highway is within a business or residence district, the following limitations shall apply and shall qualify the definitions in Sections 235...
• California Vehicle Code Section 242
  A "camp trailer" is a vehicle designed to be used on a highway, capable of human habitation for camping or recreational purposes, that does not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 243
  A "camper" is a structure designed to be mounted upon a motor vehicle and to provide facilities for human habitation or camping purposes. A camper...
• California Vehicle Code Section 245
  A "carry-all" is that type of earth-moving equipment which is not self-propelled but which is designed for use behind tractors or other motive power and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 246
  A "certificate of compliance" for the purposes of this code is an electronic or printed document issued by a state agency, board, or commission, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 250
  A "chop shop" is any building, lot, or other premises where any person has been engaged in altering, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or storing any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 255
  "City" includes every city and city and county within this State.
• California Vehicle Code Section 257
  A "clean fuel vehicle" means any passenger or commercial vehicle or pickup truck that is fueled by alternative fuels, as defined in Section 301 of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 259
  "Collector motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle owned by a collector, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 5051, and the motor vehicle is used...
• California Vehicle Code Section 260
  (a) A "commercial vehicle" is a motor vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code used or maintained for the transportation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 265
  The "commissioner" is the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.
• California Vehicle Code Section 266
  A "consignment" is an arrangement under which a dealer agrees to accept possession of a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 267
  A "converter" is a person, other than a vehicle manufacturer, who, prior to the retail sale of a new vehicle, does any of the following...
• California Vehicle Code Section 270
  "County" includes every county and city and county within this State.
• California Vehicle Code Section 273
  A "crib sheet" or "cribbing device" is any paper or device designed for cheating by supplying examination answers without questions to an applicant for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 275
  "Crosswalk" is either: (a) That portion of a roadway included within the prolongation or connection of the boundary lines of sidewalks at intersections where the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 280
  "Darkness" is any time from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise and any other time when visibility is not sufficient to render...
• California Vehicle Code Section 285
  "Dealer" is a person not otherwise expressly excluded by Section 286 who: (a) For commission, money, or other thing of value, sells, exchanges, buys, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 286
  The term "dealer" does not include any of the following: (a) Insurance companies, banks, finance companies, public officials, or any other person coming into possession...
• California Vehicle Code Section 288
  "Declared combined gross weight" equals the total unladen weight of the combination of vehicles plus the heaviest load that will be transported by that combination...
• California Vehicle Code Section 289
  "Declared gross vehicle weight" means weight that equals the total unladen weight of the vehicle plus the heaviest load that will be transported on the
• California Vehicle Code Section 290
  "Department" means the Department of Motor Vehicles except, when used in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 2100) of Division 2 and in Divisions 11 (commencing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 291
  Any reference in this code to the Department of Public Works shall be deemed to refer to the Department of Transportation, which is part of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 295
  The "director" is the Director of Motor Vehicles.
• California Vehicle Code Section 295.5
  A "disabled person" is any of the following: (a) Any person who has lost, or has lost the use of, one or more lower extremities...
• California Vehicle Code Section 295.7
  A "disabled veteran" is any person who, as a result of injury or disease suffered while on active service with the armed forces of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 296
  A "distributor" is any person other than a manufacturer who sells or distributes new vehicles subject to registration under this code, new trailers subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 297
  A "distributor branch" is an office maintained by a distributor for the sale of new vehicles or new trailers subject to identification pursuant to Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 300
  A "drawbar" is a rigid structure forming a connection between a trailer and a towing vehicle, securely attached to both vehicles by nonrigid means and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 303
  A "driveaway-towaway operation" is any operation in which any motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles coupled together constitutes the commodity being transported, when one...
• California Vehicle Code Section 305
  A "driver" is a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. The term "driver" does not include the tillerman or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 310
  A "driver's license" is a valid license to drive the type of motor vehicle or combination of vehicles for which a person is licensed under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 310.4
  A "driving instructor" is, except as provided in Section 11105.5, an employee of a driving school licensed by the department to instruct others in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 310.6
  A "driving school" is a business which, for compensation, conducts or offers to conduct instruction in the operation of motor vehicles. As used in this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 310.8
  A "driving school operator" is either a driving school owner who operates his own driving school or an employee of a driving school who is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 311
  A "driving school owner" is any person licensed by the department to engage in the business of giving instruction for compensation in the driving of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 312
  The term "drug" means any substance or combination of substances, other than alcohol, which could so affect the nervous system, brain, or muscles of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 313
  The term "electric personal assistive mobility device" or "EPAMD" means a self-balancing, nontandem two-wheeled device, that is not greater than 20 inches deep and 25...
• California Vehicle Code Section 314
  An "expressway" is a portion of highway that is part of either of the following: (a) An expressway system established by a county under Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 315
  "Essential parts" are all integral and body parts of a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code, the removal, alteration, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 320
  "Established place of business" is a place actually occupied either continuously or at regular periods by any of the following: (a) A dealer, remanufacturer, remanufacturer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 320.5
  An "extralegal load" is a single unit or an assembled item which, due to its design, cannot be reasonably reduced or dismantled in size or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 321
  "Factory-built housing" is a structure as defined in Section 19971 of the Health and Safety Code. As used in this code, factory-built housing is a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 322
  (a) A "farm labor vehicle" is any motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of nine or more farmworkers, in addition to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 324
  A "fifth-wheel travel trailer" is a vehicle designed for recreational purposes to carry persons or property on its own structure and so constructed as to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 324.5
  A "former prisoner of war" is any person who, while serving as a member of the United States Armed Forces, as a member of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 325
  A "foreign jurisdiction" is any other state, the District of Columbia, territories or possessions of the United States, and foreign states, provinces, or countries.
• California Vehicle Code Section 330
  A "foreign vehicle" is a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code brought into this State from a foreign jurisdiction other...
• California Vehicle Code Section 331
  (a) A "franchise" is a written agreement between two or more persons having all of the following conditions: (1) A commercial relationship of definite duration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 331.1
  A "franchisee" is any person who, pursuant to a franchise, receives new motor vehicles subject to registration under this code, new off-highway motorcycles, as defined...
• California Vehicle Code Section 331.2
  A "franchisor" is any person who manufactures, assembles, or distributes new motor vehicles subject to registration under this code, new off-highway motorcycles, as defined in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 332
  "Freeway" is a highway in respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or from their abutting...
• California Vehicle Code Section 335
  A "gantry truck" is a motor vehicle so designed and constructed that it straddles the load to be transported and by means of appropriate mechanism...
• California Vehicle Code Section 336
  "General public paratransit vehicle" means any motor vehicle designed for carrying no more than 24 persons and the driver, that provides local transportation to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 340
  A "garage" is a building or other place wherein the business of storing or safekeeping vehicles of a type required to be registered under this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 345
  A "golf cart" is a motor vehicle having not less than three wheels in contact with the ground, having an unladen weight less than 1,300...
• California Vehicle Code Section 350
  (a) "Gross vehicle weight rating" (GVWR) means the weight specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle. (b) Gross combination weight...
• California Vehicle Code Section 353
  "Hazardous material" is any substance, material, or device posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or property during transportation, as defined by regulations adopted pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 360
  "Highway" is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway...
• California Vehicle Code Section 362
  A "house car" is a motor vehicle originally designed, or permanently altered, and equipped for human habitation, or to which a camper has been permanently...
• California Vehicle Code Section 365
  An "intersection" is the area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 370
  A "legal owner" is a person holding a security interest in a vehicle which is subject to the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 371
  Lessee includes "bailee" and is a person who leases, offers to lease, or is offered the lease of a motor vehicle for a term exceeding...
• California Vehicle Code Section 372
  A "lessor" is a person who, for a term exceeding four months, leases or offers for lease, negotiates or attempts to negotiate a lease, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 373
  A "lessor-retailer" is a lessor or renter who, except under the circumstances described in subdivision (a) of Section 286, makes a retail sale or sales...
• California Vehicle Code Section 375
  "Lighting equipment" is any of the following lamps or devices: (a) A headlamp, auxiliary driving, passing, or fog lamp, fog taillamp, taillamp, stoplamp, supplemental stoplamp,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 377
  A "limit line" is a solid white line not less than 12 nor more than 24 inches wide, extending across a roadway or any portion...
• California Vehicle Code Section 378
  A "logging dolly" is a vehicle designed for carrying logs, having one or more axles which axles, if there be more than one, are not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 379
  A "logging vehicle" is a vehicle used exclusively in the conduct of logging operations and not designed for the transportation of persons or property on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 380
  "Liquefied petroleum gas" means normal butane, isobutane, propane, or butylene (including isomers) or mixtures composed predominantly thereof in liquid or gaseous state having a vapor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 385
  "Local authorities" means the legislative body of every county or municipality having authority to adopt local police regulations.
• California Vehicle Code Section 385.5
  (a) A "low-speed vehicle" is a motor vehicle that meets all of the following requirements: (1) Has four wheels. (2) Can attain a speed, in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 386
  A "managerial employee" is a person who exercises control over a business licensed under this code, whether compensated by salary or commission, including, but not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 387
  "Manufactured home" is a manufactured home, as defined in Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code, a commercial coach, as defined in Section 18001....
• California Vehicle Code Section 389
  A "manufacturer branch" is an office maintained by a manufacturer for the sale of new vehicles to dealers or for directing or supervising in whole...
• California Vehicle Code Section 395
  A "metal tire" is a tire the surface of which in contact with the highway is wholly or partly of metal or other hard nonresilient
• California Vehicle Code Section 396
  "Mobilehome" is a structure as defined in Section 18008 of the Health and Safety Code. For the purposes of enforcement of highway safety laws and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 400
  (a) A "motorcycle" is any motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider, designed to travel on not more than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 405
  A "motor-driven cycle" is any motorcycle with a motor that displaces less than 150 cubic centimeters. A motor-driven cycle does not include a motorized bicycle,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 406
  (a) A "motorized bicycle" or "moped" is any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device having fully operative pedals for propulsion by human power, or having no pedals...
• California Vehicle Code Section 407
  A "motorized quadricycle" is a four-wheeled device, and a "motorized tricycle" is a three-wheeled device, designed to carry not more than two persons, including the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 407.5
  (a) A "motorized scooter" is any two-wheeled device that has handlebars, has a floorboard that is designed to be stood upon when riding, and is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 408
  "Motor carrier" is the registered owner, lessee, licensee, or bailee of any vehicle set forth in Section 34500, who operates or directs the operation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 410
  A "motor truck" or "motortruck" is a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
• California Vehicle Code Section 415
  (a) A "motor vehicle" is a vehicle that is self-propelled. (b) "Motor vehicle" does not include a self-propelled wheelchair, motorized tricycle, or motorized quadricycle, if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 425
  A "muffler" is a device consisting of a series of chambers or baffle plates, or other mechanical design, for the purpose of receiving exhaust gas...
• California Vehicle Code Section 426
  "New motor vehicle dealer" is a dealer, as defined in Section 285, who, in addition to the requirements of that section, either acquires for resale...
• California Vehicle Code Section 430
  A "new vehicle" is a vehicle constructed entirely from new parts that has never been the subject of a retail sale, or registered with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 431
  A "nonrepairable vehicle" is a vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration that meets the criteria specified in subdivision (a), (b), or (c). The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 432
  A "nonrepairable vehicle certificate" is a vehicle ownership document issued to the owner of a nonrepairable vehicle. Ownership of the vehicle may only be transferred...
• California Vehicle Code Section 435
  "Nonresident" is a person who is not a resident of this State.
• California Vehicle Code Section 435.5
  "Nonresident daily commuter" means a person who is not a resident of this state, but who enters and leaves this state on a daily basis...
• California Vehicle Code Section 436
  An "off-highway motorcycle" means a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle which is subject to identification under this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 440
  An "official traffic control device" is any sign, signal, marking, or device, consistent with Section 21400, placed or erected by authority of a public body...
• California Vehicle Code Section 445
  An "official traffic control signal" is any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and proceed and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 450
  An "oil well production service unit" is any vehicle specifically designed for and used exclusively in servicing oil wells which is only incidentally operated or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 455
  "Original driver's license" means the first driver's license issued a person under this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 460
  An "owner" is a person having all the incidents of ownership, including the legal title of a vehicle whether or not such person lends, rents,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 461
  The Senate, Assembly, or any committees thereof, or the Governor's office in possession and using vehicles under a lease, lease-sale, or rental-purchase agreement for a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 462
  A "paratransit vehicle" is a passenger vehicle, other than a bus, schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or taxicab that...
• California Vehicle Code Section 463
  "Park or parking" shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged...
• California Vehicle Code Section 464
  A "passenger transportation vehicle" is any vehicle, including a trailer bus, designed, used, or maintained for carrying more than 10 persons including the driver, which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 465
  A "passenger vehicle" is any motor vehicle, other than a motortruck, truck tractor, or a bus, as defined in Section 233, and used or maintained...
• California Vehicle Code Section 467
  (a) A "pedestrian" is a person who is afoot or who is using any of the following: (1) A means of conveyance propelled by human...
• California Vehicle Code Section 468
  The department shall commence the "permanent trailer identification plate program," on or after December 31, 2001, and may designate the method, consistent with this code,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 470
  "Person" includes a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation.
• California Vehicle Code Section 471
  A "pickup truck" is a motor truck with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of less than 11,500 pounds, an unladen weight of less than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 472
  A "pilot car" is a motor vehicle, except a motorcycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized quadricycle, which is used to escort one or more other vehicles,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 473
  (a) A "pocket bike" is a two-wheeled motorized device that has a seat or saddle for the use of the rider, and that is not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 475
  A "pole or pipe dolly" is a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, having one or more axles which axles, if there be more than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 480
  A "power brake" is any breaking gear or mechanism that aids in applying the brakes of a vehicle and which utilizes vacuum, compressed air, electricity,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 485
  A "pneumatic tire" is a tire inflated or capable of inflation with compressed air.
• California Vehicle Code Section 490
  "Private road or driveway" is a way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 492
  A "private school" is any school, whether conducted for profit or not, giving a course of training similar to that given in a public school...
• California Vehicle Code Section 495
  The "reciprocity commission" is the commission empowered to enter into reciprocity agreements.
• California Vehicle Code Section 505
  A "registered owner" is a person registered by the department as the owner of a vehicle.
• California Vehicle Code Section 505.2
  (a) A "registration service" is a person engaged in the business of soliciting or receiving an application for the registration, renewal of registration, or transfer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 506
  "Registration year" is the period of time beginning with the date the vehicle is first required to be registered in this state and ending on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 507
  The "relevant market area" is any area within a radius of 10 miles from the site of a potential new dealership.
• California Vehicle Code Section 507.5
  A "remanufactured vehicle" is a vehicle that has been constructed by a licensed remanufacturer and consists of any used or reconditioned integral parts, including, but...
• California Vehicle Code Section 507.8
  A "remanufacturer" is any person who for commission, money, or other thing of value, produces a vehicle that consists of any used or reconditioned integral...
• California Vehicle Code Section 508
  A "renter" is a person who is engaged in the business of renting, leasing or bailing vehicles for a term not exceeding four months and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 510
  A "repair shop" is a place where vehicles subject to registration under this code are repaired, rebuilt, reconditioned, repainted, or in any way maintained for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 512
  A "representative" is any person regularly employed by a manufacturer or distributor for the purpose of negotiating or promoting the sale of the manufacturer's or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 515
  A "residence district" is that portion of a highway and the property contiguous thereto, other than a business district, (a) upon one side of which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 516
  "Resident" means any person who manifests an intent to live or be located in this state on more than a temporary or transient basis. Presence...
• California Vehicle Code Section 520
  A "retail sale" is a sale of goods to a person for the purpose of consumption and use, and not for resale to others, including,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 521
  A "retarder" is a device, other than a brake, which, when activated by the driver, applies a retarding force to the wheels of a vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 521.5
  "Revived salvage vehicle" means a total loss salvage vehicle as defined in Section 544, or a vehicle reported for dismantling pursuant to Section 5500 or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 522
  "Ridesharing" means two or more persons traveling by any mode, including, but not limited to, carpooling, vanpooling, buspooling, taxipooling, jitney, and public transit.
• California Vehicle Code Section 525
  "Right-of-way" is the privilege of the immediate use of the highway.
• California Vehicle Code Section 527
  (a) "Road" means any existing vehicle route established before January 1, 1979, with significant evidence of prior regular travel by vehicles subject to registration pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 530
  A "roadway" is that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
• California Vehicle Code Section 535
  Safety glazing material is any glazing material so constructed, treated, or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet, plate, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 540
  A "safety zone" is the area or space lawfully set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 543
  "Salvage pool" means a person engaged exclusively in the business of disposing of total loss salvage vehicles, nonrepairable vehicles, or recovered stolen vehicles sent to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 543.5
  "Salvage vehicle rebuilder" means any person who rebuilds a total loss salvage vehicle, as defined in Section 544, or a vehicle reported for dismantling pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 544
  "Total loss salvage vehicle" means either of the following: (a) A vehicle, other than a nonrepairable vehicle, of a type subject to registration that has...
• California Vehicle Code Section 545
  A "schoolbus" is a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of any school pupil at or below the 12th-grade level to or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 545.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 545, a motor vehicle is not a schoolbus if it is operated for the purpose of transporting any pupil to or from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 545.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 545, a bus of the type commonly known as a coach bus is not a schoolbus when it is operated by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 546
  A "school pupil activity bus" is any motor vehicle, other than a schoolbus, operated by a common carrier, or by and under the exclusive jurisdiction...
• California Vehicle Code Section 550
  A "semitrailer" is a vehicle designed for carrying persons or property, used in conjunction with a motor vehicle, and so constructed that some part of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 555
  "Sidewalk" is that portion of a highway, other than the roadway, set apart by curbs, barriers, markings or other delineation for pedestrian travel.
• California Vehicle Code Section 557
  A "snowmobile" is a motor vehicle designed to travel over ice or snow in whole or in part on skis, belts, or cleats, which is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 558
  A "snow-tread tire" is a tire which has a relatively deep and aggressive tread pattern compared with conventional passenger tread pattern.
• California Vehicle Code Section 560
  A "solid tire" is a tire of rubber or other resilient material which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
• California Vehicle Code Section 565
  "Special construction equipment" is: (a) Any vehicle used primarily off the highways for construction purposes and which moves only occasionally over the highways and which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 570
  "Special construction equipment" does not include any of the following: (a) A vehicle originally designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery...
• California Vehicle Code Section 575
  "Special mobile equipment" is a vehicle, not self-propelled, not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property, and only incidentally operated or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 580
  A "specially constructed vehicle" is a vehicle which is built for private use, not for resale, and is not constructed by a licensed manufacturer or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 585
  A "station wagon" is a dual purpose vehicle designed for the transportation of persons and also designed in such a manner that the seats may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 587
  "Stop or stopping" when prohibited shall mean any cessation of movement of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 590
  "Street" is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Street...
• California Vehicle Code Section 591
  A "street" or "highway" shall not include those portions of a way or place in or upon which construction, alteration, or repair work is being...
• California Vehicle Code Section 592
  "Highway", for the purposes of Division 3 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 12 (commencing with Section 24000), Division 13 (commencing with Section 29000), Division 14.8...
• California Vehicle Code Section 593
  "Supplemental restraint system" means an automatic passive restraint system consisting of a bag that is designed to inflate upon collision, commonly referred to as an
• California Vehicle Code Section 595
  "Terminal" is a place where a vehicle of a type listed in Section 34500 is regularly garaged or maintained, or from which the vehicle is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 600
  A "through highway" is a highway or portion thereof at the entrance to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is regulated by stop signs or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 605
  "Tire traction devices" are devices or mechanisms having a composition and design capable of improving vehicle traction, braking, and cornering ability upon snow or ice-covered...
• California Vehicle Code Section 610
  "Tire tread" is that portion of the tire, consisting of the ribs and grooves, which comes in contact with the roadway.
• California Vehicle Code Section 611
  A "toll highway" or "toll road" is a publicly owned way or place open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel...
• California Vehicle Code Section 612
  "Tour bus" means a bus designed for carrying more than 16 passengers and the driver which is operated by or for a charter-party carrier of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 612
  "Tour bus" means a bus, which is operated by or for a charter-party carrier of passengers, as defined in Section 5360 of the Public Utilities...
• California Vehicle Code Section 615
  (a) A "tow truck" is a motor vehicle which has been altered or designed and equipped for, and primarily used in the business of, transporting...
• California Vehicle Code Section 617
  A "tow dolly" is a vehicle towed by a motor vehicle and designed and used exclusively to transport another motor vehicle and upon which the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 620
  The term "traffic" includes pedestrians, ridden animals, vehicles, street cars, and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any highway for purposes of travel.
• California Vehicle Code Section 625
  A "traffic officer" is any member of the California Highway Patrol, or any peace officer who is on duty for the exclusive or main purpose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 626
  A "traffic violator school" is a business that, for compensation, provides, or offers to provide, instruction in traffic safety, including, but not limited to, classroom...
• California Vehicle Code Section 626.2
  A "traffic violator school branch or classroom location" is any place where a traffic violator school conducts instruction or maintains records.
• California Vehicle Code Section 626.4
  A "traffic violator school instructor" is any person who provides instruction to traffic violators on behalf of a traffic violator school.
• California Vehicle Code Section 626.6
  A "traffic violator school operator" is the person who directs and manages the operations of a traffic violator school. A "traffic violator school operator" may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 626.8
  A "traffic violator school owner" is any natural person, association, or corporation that owns a traffic violator school.
• California Vehicle Code Section 627
  (a) "Engineering and traffic survey," as used in this code, means a survey of highway and traffic conditions in accordance with methods determined by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 630
  A "trailer" is a vehicle designed for carrying persons or property on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so...
• California Vehicle Code Section 635
  A "trailer coach" is a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed for human habitation or human occupancy for industrial, professional, or commercial purposes, for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 636
  A "trailer bus" is a trailer or semitrailer designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of more than 15 persons, including the driver, and includes...
• California Vehicle Code Section 640
  A "transferee" is a person who has acquired the sole ownership of or an equity in a vehicle of a type required to be registered...
• California Vehicle Code Section 642
  A "transit bus" is any bus owned or operated by a publicly owned or operated transit system, or operated under contract with a publicly owned...
• California Vehicle Code Section 645
  (a) A "transporter" is a person engaged in the business of moving any owned or lawfully possessed vehicle by lawful methods over the highways for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 650
  A "trolley coach" is a vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
• California Vehicle Code Section 655
  (a) A "truck tractor" is a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 657
  A "truss" is an assemblage of beams, bars, or rods typically arranged in a triangle or combination of triangles to form a rigid framework and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 660
  The "unladen weight" of a vehicle is the weight equipped and ready for operation on the road including the body, fenders, oil in motor, radiator...
• California Vehicle Code Section 661
  Unladen weight shall not include the following machinery, equipment or attachment which is attendant to the efficient operation of the body or vehicle: (a) Equipment...
• California Vehicle Code Section 665
  A "used vehicle" is a vehicle that has been sold, or has been registered with the department, or has been sold and operated upon the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 665.5
  A "U-turn" is the turning of a vehicle upon a highway so as to proceed in the opposite direction whether accomplished by one continuous movement...
• California Vehicle Code Section 668
  A "vanpool vehicle" is any motor vehicle, other than a motortruck or truck tractor, designed for carrying more than 10 but not more than 15...
• California Vehicle Code Section 670
  A "vehicle" is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively...
• California Vehicle Code Section 670.5
  A "vehicle frame" is defined as the main longitudinal structural members of the chassis of the vehicle, or for vehicles with unitized body construction, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 671
  (a) A "vehicle identification number" is the motor number, serial number, or other distinguishing number, letter, mark, character, or datum, or any combination thereof, required...
• California Vehicle Code Section 672
  (a) "Vehicle manufacturer" is any person who produces from raw materials or new basic components a vehicle of a type subject to registration under this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 675
  (a) "Vehicle salesperson" is a person not otherwise expressly excluded by this section, who does one or a combination of the following: (1) Is employed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 675.5
  A "vehicle verifier" is a person not expressly excluded by Section 675.6 who inspects, records, documents, and submits to the department, or its authorized representative,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 675.6
  (a) "Vehicle verifier" does not include any of the following: (1) A peace officer. (2) An authorized employee of the department. (3) A special agent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 676
  "Year-round registration" is a system whereby the director designates a date for the expiration of registration of a vehicle and renewal thereof in order to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 676.5
  A "water tender vehicle" is a vehicle designed to carry not less than 1,500 gallons of water and used primarily for transporting and delivering water...
• California Vehicle Code Section 680
  (a) A "youth bus" is any bus, other than a schoolbus, designed for and when actually carrying not more than 16 persons and the driver,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1500
  There is in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency the Department of Motor Vehicles.
• California Vehicle Code Section 1501
  The department is the successor to and is hereby vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction now or hereafter vested by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1502
  The department has possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, moneys, funds, appropriations, and all other property, real or personal, now or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1503
  Except as in this division otherwise provided, the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1504
  The department is under the control of a civil executive officer known as the Director of Motor Vehicles. The director shall be appointed by, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1505
  The director, with the approval of the Governor and the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, shall organize the department in such manner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1507
  The director may appoint and, in accordance with law fix the salaries of: (a) A deputy director. (b) Such other officers, deputies, technical experts, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1650
  The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this code relating to the department.
• California Vehicle Code Section 1651
  (a) The director may adopt and enforce rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this code relating to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1651.2
  Whenever in the judgment of the department, any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices that constitute, or will...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1651.3
  It is the policy of this state to recognize the training and experience that individuals gain while serving in the armed forces of the United...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1651.5
  (a) The director may assign or reassign dates for the expiration of registration for a vehicle registered pursuant to this code. The director may establish...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1652
  (a) The department shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of ownership, registration cards, drivers' licenses, and all other forms requisite or deemed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1653
  The department shall examine and determine the genuineness and regularity of every application or document filed with it under this code and may require additional...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1653.5
  (a) Every form prescribed by the department for use by an applicant for the issuance or renewal by the department of a driver's license or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1654
  The director may purchase or lease such real estate and erect such buildings as the department or any of its divisions require, subject to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1655
  (a) The director and deputy director of the department, the Deputy Director, Investigations Division, the Chief, Field Investigations Branch, and the investigators of the department,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1656
  (a) The department shall publish the complete text of the California Vehicle Code together with other laws relating to the use of highways or the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1656.2
  The department shall prepare and publish a printed summary describing the penalties for noncompliance with Sections 16000 and 16028, which shall be included with each...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1656.3
  (a) The department shall include within the California Driver's Handbook, as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 1656, language regarding each of the following: (1)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1656.4
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Department of Consumer Affairs, shall make available on its Internet web site, on or before July 1, 1997,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1656.5
  (a) The Legislature finds that the department, by virtue of its interaction with millions of California drivers and vehicle owners each year, represents a valuable...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1657
  The director may assign qualified employees of the department to advise with the State Board of Education and with the governing boards of districts maintaining...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1658
  The department may pay membership fees, join, and participate in affairs of associations having for their purpose the interchange of information relating to the registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1659
  The department may develop criteria, establish standards for, and coordinate a program of motor vehicle driver education and motor vehicle driver training for drivers whose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1659.9
  (a) Upon the receipt of funds from the Office of Traffic Safety in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency for a pilot study on the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1660
  (a) Any institution or organization described in subdivision (o) of Section 286 shall keep the following records for not less than three years: (1) The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1661
  (a) Except for vehicles registered pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 9700) of Chapter 6 of Division 3, the department shall notify the registered...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1662
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall have no duty to investigate alleged violations of the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1663
  (a) The department shall, in the synopsis or summary of laws regulating the operation of vehicles and the use of the highways published under subdivision...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1664
  The department shall publicize the Safe Streets Act of 1994 when mailing vehicle registrations, driver's licenses, and driver's license suspension and revocation notices, and in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1665
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department by rule or regulation may provide for the issuance and renewal on a two-year basis of licenses...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1666
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Include at least one question in each test of an applicant's knowledge and understanding of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1666.1
  Upon updating the California Driver's Handbook, the department shall include at least one question in any of the noncommercial driver's license examinations, as administered under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1666.5
  The department shall include, on a rotating basis, at least one question in at least 20 percent of the tests of an applicant's knowledge and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1667
  (a) As part of its motor vehicle registration and registration renewal process, other than upon the initial registration of a new motor vehicle, the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1668
  (a) The department may provide fingerprint service to the general public. When that service is provided, the department shall charge a fee of not less...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1669
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the department implement procedures to ensure, to the fullest extent permitted by the resources made available to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1670
  A licensee issued an occupational license by the department and conducting more than one type of business from an established place of business shall provide...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1671
  (a) The established place of business of a dealer, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, automobile driving school, or traffic violator school...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1672
  (a) The department shall make available, in the public area of each office of the department where applications for driver's licenses or identification cards are...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1672.3
  (a) The director shall determine the date when the department's inventory of driver's license and identification card forms, as that inventory exists in accordance with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1672.5
  For purposes of providing a means of identifying persons who have elected to make an anatomical gift under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (Chapter 3.5...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1673
  For the purposes of refunding the smog impact fee, as prescribed in Sections 1673.2 and 1673.4, "registered owner or lessee" means the person or persons...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1673.2
  (a) The department, in coordination with the Department of Finance, shall do all of the following: (1) Search its records to identify the registered owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1673.4
  (a) Any claim submitted by a person other than a registered owner or lessee shall be filed within 30 days from the effective date of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1673.5
  The department shall attempt to recover any refund of the smog impact fee, or part thereof, that is erroneously made. Collection shall be initiated if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1673.6
  It is unlawful to use a false or fictitious name, to knowingly make any false statement, or conceal any material fact on a refund claim...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1673.7
  (a) The department shall include the following notice with each check issued as a refund of the smog impact fee: "The enclosed check is a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1674
  The department shall develop a program to foster a positive atmosphere that is conducive to encouraging drivers to succeed in passing any visual tests or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1674.4
  In order to address any conscious or unconscious bias against a driver by persons administering the department's visual tests or written or behind-the-wheel driving tests,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1674.6
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons should be provided with transportation alternatives when their privilege to drive is lost because of failure to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1675
  (a) The director shall establish standards and develop criteria for the approval of initial and renewal driver improvement courses specifically designed for the safe driving...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1676
  (a) A course provider conducting a mature driver improvement course pursuant to Section 1675 may charge a tuition not to exceed thirty dollars ($30). (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1677
  (a) The department may collect a fee, to be determined by the department, from each course provider who shall be responsible for the development and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1678
  (a) Between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2004, inclusive, the fee amounts set forth in Section 488.385 of the Code of Civil Procedure, Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1679
  On and after July 1, 2006, in any document mailed by the department that offers a person the opportunity to register to vote pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1685
  (a) In order to continue improving the quality of products and services it provides to its customers, the department, in conformance with Article 4 (commencing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1685.1
  (a) A motor carrier association that represents both intrastate and interstate motor carriers may submit an application to the department to become a private industry...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1800
  (a) The department shall file each application received for the registration of a vehicle and shall keep a record of each as follows: (1) Under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1801
  (a) Whenever any notice, report, statement, court abstract, or record is required to be submitted to the department by this code, the document may be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1801.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may allow a person to submit any document required to be submitted to the department by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1802
  Every judge of a court not of record shall keep a full record of every case in which a person is charged with any violation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1803
  (a) (1) The clerk of a court in which a person was convicted of a violation of this code, was convicted of a violation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1803
  (a) (1) The clerk of a court in which a person was convicted of a violation of this code, was convicted of a violation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1803.3
  (a) The clerk of any court that reverses a conviction for an offense described in subdivision (a) of Section 1803, which is not exempted under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1803.4
  Any record regarding the providing of information pursuant to Section 13106, or record of persons personally given notice by the department or a court, by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1803.5
  (a) In accordance with Section 41501 or 42005, the clerk of a court or hearing officer, when a person who receives a notice to appear...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1804
  (a) The abstract shall be made upon a form furnished or approved by the department and shall contain all necessary information to identify the defendant,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1805
  The failure, refusal, or neglect of any such judicial officer to comply with any of the requirements of Sections 1802, 1803, 1804 and 1816 is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1806
  (a) The department shall file all accident reports and abstracts of court records of convictions received under this code, and in connection therewith, shall maintain...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1806.1
  If a person has entered into a stipulated vehicle release agreement pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 14607.6, the department shall maintain...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1806.5
  Notwithstanding Section 1808, the department shall not furnish information filed pursuant to Section 1806 to any person if the furnishing of that information would violate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1807
  (a) The department is not required to maintain records relating to drivers of motor vehicles after the records are, in the opinion of the director,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1807.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1808, any record of the department of a conviction of Section 23103 as specified in Section 23103.5, or of a conviction of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808
  (a) Except where a specific provision of law prohibits the disclosure of records or information or provides for confidentiality, all records of the department relating...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.1
  (a) The prospective employer of a driver who drives a vehicle specified in subdivision (k) shall obtain a report showing the driver's current public record...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.2
  In addition to those specified in Section 1808.4, the home address of any inspector or investigator regularly employed and paid as such in the office...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.21
  (a) Any residence address in any record of the department is confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person, except a court, law enforcement...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.22
  (a) Section 1808.21 does not apply to a financial institution licensed by the state or federal government to do business in the State of California...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.23
  (a) Section 1808.21 does not apply to a vehicle manufacturer licensed to do business in this state if the manufacturer, or its agent, under penalty...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.24
  Information regarding any motor vehicle liability insurance policy or surety bond provided to the department pursuant to Section 4000.37 or provided electronically is confidential and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.25
  (a) The department shall implement a program to provide residence address information to an accredited degree-granting nonprofit independent institution of higher education incorporated in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.4
  (a) The home address of any of the following persons, that appears in any record of the department, is confidential, if the person requests the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.45
  The willful, unauthorized disclosure of information from any department record to any person, or the use of any false representation to obtain information from a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.46
  No person or agent shall directly or indirectly obtain information from the department files using false representations or distribute restricted or confidential information to any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.47
  Any person who has access to confidential or restricted information from the department shall establish procedures to protect the confidentiality of those records. If any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.5
  Except as provided in Section 22511.58, all records of the department relating to the physical or mental condition of any person, and convictions of any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.6
  (a) In addition to those specified in Section 1808.4, the home address of any of the following persons, that appears in any record of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.7
  The record of the department relating to the first proceeding and dismissal under Section 1803.5 in any 18-month period for participation by a person in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.8
  (a) Dismissal of any driver certified pursuant to Section 12517, 12523, or 12523.5, for a cause relating to pupil transportation safety, shall be reported by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1808.9
  (a) Except for retired peace officers whose home address is permanently withheld from public inspection under subdivision (c) of Section 1808.4 or subdivision (c) of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1809
  The department may prepare and disseminate information relating to prevention of traffic accidents.
• California Vehicle Code Section 1810
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 1806.5, 1808.2, 1808.4, 1808.5, 1808.6, 1808.7, 1808.8, and paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 12800.5, the department may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1810.2
  (a) The department may establish commercial requester accounts for individuals or organizations and issue requester codes for the purpose of obtaining information from the department's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1810.3
  (a) Using the information made available in the accident reports provided to the department by law enforcement agencies under Section 20012, the department may provide...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1810.5
  The Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanor actions under Section 41803.5 of the Government Code, public defenders, and public defender...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1810.7
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 1806.5, 1808.2, 1808.4, 1808.5, 1808.6, 1808.7, and 1808.21, the department may authorize, by special permit, any person to access...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1811
  The department may sell copies of all or any part of its records at a charge sufficient to pay at least the entire actual cost...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1812
  The department shall not charge for copies of records or for information from its records given to any county, city, any transit operator as defined...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1813
  The director and such officers of the department as he may designate may, upon request, prepare under the seal of the department and deliver without...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1814
  Any person engaged in the business of examining the records of the department and supplying information relative thereto to the public for compensation shall first...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1815
  The bond shall be to the satisfaction of the director and shall obligate the principal and sureties to compensate the officers of the department and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1816
  Every judge of the juvenile court, juvenile hearing officer, duly constituted referee of a juvenile court, or other person responsible for the disposition of cases...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1817
  Written allegations received by the department from members of the public identifying motor vehicles or other vehicles by license number from which any flaming or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1818
  Any record of, or information from any record concerning, an abstract of conviction kept by the department shall contain an appropriate notation indicating the commercial...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1819
  All records of the department containing information as to the actual mileage of motor vehicles submitted as required by subdivision (b) of Section 4456 and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1821
  (a) The department shall establish and maintain a data and monitoring system to evaluate the efficacy of intervention programs for persons convicted of violations of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1822
  The Legislature finds that driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs continues to be a primary safety issue on the state' s highways, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 1825
  (a) The department may conduct an annual, random audit of applications submitted and processed pursuant to Section 22511.55 or subdivision (b) or (c) of Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2100
  There is in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2101
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2102
  Wherever in any statute "California Highway Patrol" is used, it means the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2103
  The department is the successor to and is vested with the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former Division of Enforcement of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2104
  The department has possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, or equipment, and all other property, real or personal, now or hereafter held...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2105
  Except as in this chapter otherwise provided, the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing at Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2106
  The department shall maintain its main office within 20 miles of Sacramento.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2107
  The department is under the control of a civil executive officer, known as the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol. The commissioner shall be appointed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2108
  The commissioner shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2109
  The commissioner shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor and the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and may arrange...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2110
  The Assistant Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol shall be appointed by the commissioner, subject to the approval of the Governor, pursuant to the provisions...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2111
  The assistant commissioner shall carry out and execute such duties, with respect to traffic law enforcement, as may be specified by the commissioner.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2112
  The chief administrative officer of the department shall be appointed by the commissioner subject to the approval of the Governor, pursuant to the provisions of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2113
  The chief administrative officer shall carry out and execute such duties with respect to the administrative affairs of the department as may be specified by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2114
  The department may pay membership fees, join, and participate in the affairs of associations having for their purpose the interchange of information relating to law...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2250
  The California Highway Patrol in the Department of the California Highway Patrol consists of the following members: the commissioner, the deputy commissioner, assistant commissioners, chiefs,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2250.1
  (a) The commissioner shall establish special designations of peace officers within the Department of the California Highway Patrol to assist in the transfer of responsibilities...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2251
  All promotions to the classes of deputy chief, assistant chief, captain, lieutenant, and sergeant shall be made from promotional eligible lists resulting from promotional examination...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2252
  Such specialized positions as shall be designated by the commissioner with the approval of the Personnel Board shall be filled pursuant to open competitive examinations...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2253
  For the purpose of determining the scope of employment of any member of the California Highway Patrol under the workers' compensation laws, any such member...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2254
  In the event any dispute arises between the department and any of its members in an industrial disability case, such member or his attorney, upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2255
  No member of the California Highway Patrol, appointed to serve in any county, shall be assigned by the commissioner for service outside the county for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2256
  Notwithstanding Section 18932 of the Government Code, the minimum age limit for appointment to the position of entry level peace officer of the Department of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2257
  The commissioner shall issue to each member of the California Highway Patrol a badge of authority with the seal of the State of California in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2258
  Neither the commissioner nor any other person shall issue a badge to any person who is not a duly appointed member of the California Highway
• California Vehicle Code Section 2259
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall pay to the member, or his estate, the cost of repairing the uniforms and equipment of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2259.5
  The commissioner shall make certified bulletproof vests available to members of the California Highway Patrol while engaged in enforcement activities. The commissioner may, at his...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2260
  The commissioner may advance the cost of, or obtain and furnish, one complete uniform, including such items of clothing and equipment as may be required...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2261
  A uniform substantially similar to the official uniform of members of the California Highway Patrol shall not be worn by any other law enforcement officer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2262
  The commissioner shall establish a school for the training and education of the members of the California Highway Patrol, and for such other employees of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2263
  Shooting practice and instruction in the use of firearms shall constitute part of the training to be given to members of the California Highway Patrol....
• California Vehicle Code Section 2264
  The commissioner may procure and issue appropriate badges to patrol members for excellence in marksmanship.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2265
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall not assess against any member of the department the cost of replacing any article of uniform clothing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2266
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The communications operators of the Department of the California Highway Patrol are among the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2267
  (a) No person shall be appointed as a member of the California Highway Patrol who is not a citizen of the United States. (b) A...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2268
  (a) Any member of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as specified in Sections 2250 and 2250.1, shall be capable of fulfilling the complete...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2269
  (a) The commissioner shall provide, as safety equipment, boots to each member of the California Highway Patrol who is assigned to ride motorcycles. This safety...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2400
  (a) The commissioner shall administer Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 10850) of Division 4, Article 3 (commencing with Section 17300) of Chapter 1 of Division...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2400.6
  The commissioner shall enforce all laws regulating the operation of vehicles on, and the use of any portion of, State Highway Route 1 in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2400.7
  (a) The commissioner may enforce all laws regulating the operation of vehicles and on, and the use of, any portion of any expressway in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2401
  The commissioner shall make adequate provision for patrol of the highways at all times of the day and night.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2401.1
  The commissioner may enforce those provisions relating to the transportation of hazardous waste found in Article 6 (commencing with Section 25160), Article 6.5 (commencing with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2402
  The commissioner may make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the duties of the department. Rules and regulations...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2402.6
  (a) The commissioner may adopt and enforce regulations and standards with respect to fuel containers and fuel systems on vehicles using compressed or liquefied natural...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2402.7
  The commissioner shall adopt the definitions designated by the United States Department of Transportation under Title 49 (commencing with Section 1801) of the United States...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2403
  The commissioner may create highway patrol districts for the efficient administration and enforcement of this code and the laws respecting the use of highways. He...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2403.5
  The commissioner, or a designated representative, may enter into reciprocal operational agreements with authorized representatives of the Oregon State Police, the Nevada Department of Motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2404
  The commissioner shall establish, in counties having charters, except in counties of the first or second class, headquarters or substations for the efficient performance of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2404.5
  The department shall obtain a vehicle suitable for registration and commerical safety inspections at border crossings into Mexico.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2405
  The commissioner may purchase or lease such real estate and erect such buildings as the department or any of its divisions require, subject to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2406
  The commissioner may provide that any highway patrol vehicle shall be equipped with a stretcher and emergency first aid equipment for use in transporting injured
• California Vehicle Code Section 2407
  The department shall prepare and on request supply to police departments, coroners, sheriffs, and other suitable agencies or individuals, forms for accident reports required under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2408
  The department shall tabulate and may analyze all accident reports and publish annually or at more frequent intervals statistical information based thereon as to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2409
  All members of the California Highway Patrol have the powers of a peace officer as provided in Section 830.2 of the Penal Code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2410
  Members of the California Highway Patrol are authorized to direct traffic according to law, and, in the event of a fire or other emergency, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2410.5
  (a) The department may contract with a person or governmental entity that is conducting a special event which will impose extraordinary traffic control requirements at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2411
  Members of the California Highway Patrol are authorized to serve all warrants relating to the enforcement of this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2412
  All members of the California Highway Patrol may investigate accidents resulting in personal injuries or death and gather evidence for the purpose of prosecuting the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2413
  The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol is designated as the Statewide Vehicle Theft Investigation and Apprehension Coordinator. The commissioner may establish vehicle theft prevention,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2414
  When lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed property, except vehicles subject to registration under this code, comes into possession of the department, the department may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2415
  (a) If the owner or other person entitled to the possession thereof fails to claim the property within six months and pay the charges, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2416
  (a) The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol may issue authorized emergency vehicle permits only for the following vehicles, and then only upon a finding...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2417
  (a) The commissioner may suspend or revoke any permit issued for an authorized emergency vehicle under the following conditions: (1) The vehicle is operated in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2418
  The department shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to ensure that all foreign commercial vehicles entering into, and operating within, this state meet those standards...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2418.1
  For purposes of enforcing the provisions of Section 2418, the department and the State Air Resources Board shall, to the maximum extent possible, conduct vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2418.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every emergency ambulance that is operated within this state by any public or private agency, including, but not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2419
  (a) Any member of the California Highway Patrol may give flares to any person as replacement for flares used by such person to warn traffic...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2420
  Upon request of the California Highway Patrol, manufacturers of motorcycles shall furnish a certification of gross brake horsepower to the department. If any manufacturer of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2420.5
  (a) The department may enter into a contract to conduct an inspection of vehicles that are subject to Section 500.100 of Title 29 of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2421
  Notwithstanding Section 11032 of the Government Code, the commissioner may approve the out-of-state travel within the United States of members of the California Highway Patrol,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2421.5
  (a) When any Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies has imposed additional fees on vehicles pursuant to Section 2555 of the Streets and Highways Code, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2422
  The department shall determine and implement the basic level of emergency medical dispatcher training for dispatchers employed by the department based on guidelines developed by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2423
  In approving the additional instruction and training required under subdivision (b) of Section 680, the department shall consider the requirements of Chapter 3 (commencing with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2424
  (a) The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol may enter into agreements with providers of towing, emergency road, and storage services for the purpose of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2426
  The department shall prepare a one-page information sheet describing its Designated Driver Program. The sheet shall include information concerning the person or entity an alcoholic...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2427
  Whenever the department submits the fingerprints of an applicant for a license or certificate to the Department of Justice, and is required to pay a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2428
  (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol may fix the cost or pro rata share, or, in its discretion, an amount it considers equivalent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2429
  The department shall develop an "800" telephone number system to facilitate public reporting of violations of Article 2 (commencing with Section 31400) of Chapter 5...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2429.3
  (a) The commissioner shall appoint a committee of 12 members to develop a public awareness and outreach campaign to educate manufacturers, sellers, and owners of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2429.5
  The department, in cooperation with county and local farm bureaus, shall provide a program to educate growers and farmers and farm labor vehicle owners and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2430
  (a) The Legislature hereby creates a pilot project to develop recommendations for requiring emergency road service organizations and their specified employees, within the state, to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2430.1
  As used in this article, each of the following terms has the following meaning: (a) "Tow truck driver" means a person who operates a tow...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2430.2
  "Regional or local entity," as defined by subdivision (c) of Section 2430.1, also includes the transportation planning entity established pursuant to Section 130050.1 of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2430.3
  (a) Every freeway service patrol tow truck driver and any California Highway Patrol rotation tow truck operator shall notify each of his or her employers...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2430.5
  (a) Every employer intending to hire a tow truck driver on or after July 1, 1992, shall require the applicant for employment to submit a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2431
  (a) For the purposes of conducting criminal history and driver history screening of tow truck drivers and employers, the commissioner shall do all of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2432
  (a) It is unlawful for a freeway service patrol tow truck driver to knowingly provide false information on the application prepared and submitted to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2432.1
  (a) If the commissioner determines that an employer has failed to comply with the requirements of this article or Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 2435),...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2432.3
  (a) This article does not preempt the authority of any city, city and county, or county to regulate, pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 21100,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2435
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the emergency roadside assistance provided by highway service organizations is a valuable service that benefits millions of California...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2436
  For the purposes of this article, each of the following terms has the meaning given in this section: (a) "Emergency road service" is the adjustment,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2436.3
  (a) On and after July 1, 1992, every employer shall obtain from the department a carrier identification number. Application for a carrier identification number shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2436.5
  (a) The department, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation, shall provide training, pursuant to a reimbursable agreement or contract with a regional or local...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2436.7
  (a) Every tow truck driver and employer, involved in a freeway service patrol operation under an agreement or contract with a regional or local entity,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2450
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Hazardous Substances Highway Spill Containment and Abatement Act.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2451
  The Legislature finds and declares that a statewide program for the management of hazardous substances highway spills, under the jurisdiction of the California Highway Patrol,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2452
  "Hazardous substance" means any hazardous material defined in Section 353 and any toxic substance defined pursuant to Section 108145 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2453
  The California Highway Patrol shall serve as statewide information, assistance, and notification coordinator for all hazardous substances spill incidents occurring on highways within the State...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2454
  (a) The authority for incident command at the scene of an on-highway hazardous substance incident is vested in the appropriate law enforcement agency having primary...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2460
  (a) The definitions set forth in Article 1 (commencing with Section 19200) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Food and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2462
  (a) In addition to any other records required to be kept pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19200) of Part 3 of Division 9...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2464
  All records required to be retained pursuant to this article shall be maintained at the regular place of business of every licensed renderer and every...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2466
  Any peace officer may, during normal business hours, inspect any premises maintained by a licensed renderer or registered transporter, and any inedible kitchen grease located...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2468
  (a) Any licensed renderer who fails in any respect to keep the written records required by this article, or to set out in that written...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2470
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in the transportation of inedible kitchen grease without being registered with the Department of Food and Agriculture...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2472
  It is unlawful for any person who is not a registered transporter or licensed renderer of inedible kitchen grease to transport that product from any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2474
  It is unlawful for any person to steal, misappropriate, contaminate, or damage inedible kitchen grease, or containers thereof.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2476
  No licensed renderer, registered transporter, or any other person may take possession of inedible kitchen grease from an unregistered transporter or knowingly take possession of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2478
  (a) Any person who is found guilty of violating Section 2470, 2472, 2474, or 2476, or the rules and regulations promulgated under those provisions, is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2500
  The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all licenses issued by the Department of the California Highway Patrol unless the particular provisions applicable to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2501
  The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol may issue licenses for the operation of privately owned or operated ambulances used to respond to emergency calls,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2501
  The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol may issue licenses for the operation of privately owned and operated ambulances used to respond to emergency calls,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2502
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each application for a new or renewal license shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2503
  (a) Licenses issued by the commissioner shall not be transferable. A change in ownership or control of the licensed activity shall render the existing license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2504
  It is unlawful to violate any regulation adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this chapter.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2505
  Notwithstanding Sections 2501 and 2502, for the purpose of staggering license renewals subject to this chapter, the commissioner may, during any 12-month period, issue licenses...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2510
  (a) A person applying for a license to operate ambulances or armored cars shall provide separate identification data and reports of inspection for each vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2511
  Licenses for the operation of ambulances may be issued only to those persons or entities which operate ambulances designed and operated exclusively as such and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2512
  (a) The commissioner, after consultation with, and pursuant to the recommendations of, the Emergency Medical Service Authority and the department, shall adopt and enforce reasonable...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525
  For purposes of this article: (a) "Fleet owner" means an owner of a fleet of three or more vehicles that are any one or more...