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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  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under the code repealed by this code, which offices are continued by...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 331.3
  A "recreational vehicle franchise" is a written agreement between two or more persons having both of the following conditions: (a) A commercial relationship of definite...
• 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 a 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) For all of the following persons, his or her home address that appears in a record of the department, is confidential if the person...
• 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...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525.2
  The commissioner may adopt such regulations as are necessary to administer the provisions of this article. A fleet owner licensed by the commissioner as an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525.4
  (a) Fleet owners licensed as inspection and maintenance stations shall do all of the following: (1) Conduct all installations, adjustments, inspections, and maintenance under the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525.6
  Each fleet owner licensed as an inspection and maintenance station may place upon a vehicle which it has inspected and maintained, or upon which it...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525.8
  The commissioner shall make and enforce regulations with respect to the issuance of stickers to be displayed upon vehicles owned or operated by a fleet...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525.10
  It is unlawful and constitutes a separate offense for any person to knowingly place or knowingly permit to be placed any sticker authorized by this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2525.12
  The commissioner may charge a fee for the stickers furnished to fleet owner inspection and maintenance stations. The fee charged shall be established by regulation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2531
  In addition to taking action pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 2540), the commissioner may deny, suspend, or revoke a license to transport hazardous...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2532
  The commissioner may adopt such regulations as are necessary to administer the provisions of this article.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2540
  Any license issued may be suspended or revoked by the commissioner. The commissioner may refuse to issue a license to any applicant for the reasons...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2541
  (a) The commissioner may deny a license if the applicant or any partner, officer, or director thereof: (1) Fails to meet the qualifications established by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2542
  The commissioner may suspend, revoke, or take other disciplinary action against a license as provided in this article if the licensee or any partner, officer,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2543
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2544
  The commissioner may take disciplinary action against any licensee after a hearing as provided in this chapter by any of the following: (a) Imposing probation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2545
  Upon the effective date of any order of suspension or revocation of any license governed by this chapter, the licensee shall surrender the license to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2546
  The expiration or suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision of the commissioner or a court of law, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2547
  All accusations against licensees shall be filed within three years after the act or omission alleged as the ground for disciplinary action, except that with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2548
  When any license has been revoked or suspended following a hearing under the provisions of this chapter, any additional license issued under this chapter in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2549
  After suspension of the license upon any of the grounds set forth in this article, the commissioner may reinstate the license upon proof of compliance...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2570
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, that the public be provided additional protection through the licensing of private schoolbus contractors...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2571
  Every private schoolbus contractor who contracts with a school district for the transportation of school pupils shall be licensed in accordance with regulations adopted by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2572
  (a) The commissioner may adopt whatever regulations are necessary to administer this chapter. The regulations shall be consistent with regulations regarding schoolbuses and schoolbus drivers...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2573
  (a) The commissioner may temporarily suspend a license to transport school pupils under contract with a school district, subject to a hearing conducted pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2574
  (a) All fees collected by the Department of the California Highway Patrol pursuant to the issuance or renewal of a license for the transportation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2600
  The Reciprocity Commission is composed of the Lieutenant Governor, the Director of Motor Vehicles, the Director of Transportation, the State Controller, and the Commissioner of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2601
  All of the members of the commission shall serve thereon without additional compensation, but they shall receive their necessary actual traveling expenses incurred in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2602
  A majority of the members of the commission may act for the commission.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2603
  The Director of Motor Vehicles shall provide such assistance to the commission as it may require.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2650
  The commission is empowered to enter into formal agreements or arrangements as provided in Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Division 3, commencing at Section
• California Vehicle Code Section 2651
  The commission may adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the powers granted to it by this code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2800
  (a) It is unlawful to willfully fail or refuse to comply with a lawful order, signal, or direction of a peace officer, as defined in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2800.1
  (a) Any person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2800.2
  (a) If a person flees or attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer in violation of Section 2800.1 and the pursued vehicle is driven in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2800.3
  (a) Whenever willful flight or attempt to elude a pursuing peace officer in violation of Section 2800.1 proximately causes serious bodily injury to any person,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2800.4
  Whenever a person willfully flees or attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer in violation of Section 2800.1, and the person operating the pursued vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2801
  It is unlawful to wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order, signal, or direction of any member of any fire department, paid,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2802
  (a) Any traffic officer having reason to believe that a vehicle is not safely loaded or that the height, width, length, or weight of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2803
  (a) If the traffic officer determines that the vehicle is not safely loaded or that the height, width, length, or weight is unlawful, he may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2804
  A member of the California Highway Patrol upon reasonable belief that any vehicle is being operated in violation of any provisions of this code or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2805
  (a) For the purpose of locating stolen vehicles, (1) any member of the California Highway Patrol, or (2) a member of a city police department,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2806
  Any regularly employed and salaried police officer or deputy sheriff, or any reserve police officer or reserve deputy sheriff listed in Section 830.6 of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2807
  (a) The California Highway Patrol shall inspect every schoolbus at least once each school year to ascertain whether its construction, design, equipment, and color comply...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2807.1
  (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall inspect and certify every school pupil activity bus specified in Section 546 at least once each...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2807.2
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall, by regulation, provide for a preventive maintenance inspection guide for use by operators of tour buses, motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2807.3
  (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall inspect and certify every youth bus at least once each school year to ascertain whether its...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2808
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all schoolbuses transporting pupils to or from any private school or private school activity shall be subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2809
  All scales and weighing instruments used by any member of the California Highway Patrol to enforce the provisions of this code with respect to weight...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2810
  (a) A member of the California Highway Patrol may stop any vehicle transporting any timber products, livestock, poultry, farm produce, crude oil, petroleum products, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2810.1
  (a) Any traffic officer may stop any commercial vehicle, as defined in Section 260, that is a rental vehicle and inspect the bills of lading,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2811
  Any traffic officer who observes a fence along any highway, which has been damaged as a result of a traffic accident, shall promptly report same...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2812
  Whenever poisonous gas, explosives, dust, smoke, or other similar substances, or fire exist upon or so near a public highway as to create a menace...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2812.5
  Whenever visibility limitations pose a significant safety hazard, as determined by a member of the California Highway Patrol, that member may restrict or prohibit the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2813
  Every driver of a commercial vehicle shall stop and submit the vehicle to an inspection of the size, weight, equipment, and smoke emissions of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2813.5
  (a) The commissioner shall have exclusive authority in the issuance of stickers as evidence that commercial vehicles have been inspected pursuant to Section 2813 and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2814
  Every driver of a passenger vehicle shall stop and submit the vehicle to an inspection of the mechanical condition and equipment of the vehicle at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2814.1
  (a) A board of supervisors of a county may, by ordinance, establish, on highways under its jurisdiction, a combined vehicle inspection and sobriety checkpoint program...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2815
  Any person who shall disregard any traffic signal or direction given by a nonstudent school crossing guard, appointed pursuant to Section 21100, or authorized by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2816
  It is unlawful to load or discharge children onto or from a youth bus upon a highway at any location where the children must cross...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2817
  Any person who disregards any traffic signal or direction given by a peace officer authorized pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 70 of the Penal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2818
  It is unlawful to traverse an electronic beacon pattern, a flare pattern, cone pattern, or combination of electronic beacon, flare, or cone patterns, provided for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2900
  There is in this state, the California Traffic Safety Program, which consists of a comprehensive plan in conformity with the laws of this state to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2901
  The Governor may appoint a highway safety representative who shall serve in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and who shall, in consultation with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2902
  To the maximum extent permitted by federal law and regulations and the laws of this state, the Governor may delegate to the Secretary of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2903
  The Governor may establish an Advisory Committee on the California Traffic Safety Program which shall consist of various officials of state and local government and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2904
  The California Traffic Safety Program shall include a local traffic safety program designed to encourage the political subdivisions of this state to establish traffic safety...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2905
  On or before the fifth legislative day of the 1968 legislative session and each year thereafter, the Governor shall submit a report to the Legislature...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2906
  The California Traffic Safety Program Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury to consist of the funds referred to in Section 2907.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2907
  Any funds which are appropriated by Congress for the purposes of carrying out Section 402 of Title 23, United States Code (P.L. 89-564; 80 Stats....
• California Vehicle Code Section 2908
  The Governor shall apportion any funds contained in the California Traffic Safety Program Fund among the various state agencies and local political subdivisions as shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2909
  Any local political subdivision of this state, including, but not limited to, a city, a county, a city and county, a district, or a special...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2910
  Such local political subdivision may use, in implementing its local traffic safety program, any funds which are apportioned to it from the California Traffic Safety...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2911
  All traffic safety programs that receive state funds and that include public awareness campaigns involving emergency vehicle operations shall include in the public awareness campaign,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2930
  (a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol. (b) "Fund" means the California Motorcyclist Safety Fund. (c) "Program" means the motorcyclist safety program...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2931
  A motorcyclist safety program is hereby established in the Department of the California Highway Patrol, to be administered by the commissioner.
• California Vehicle Code Section 2932
  The commissioner may, through contracts with other public agencies or with private entities, do all of the following: (a) Provide financial or other support to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2933
  The commissioner shall not directly manage or provide program services. Any program service financed under this article shall be provided under contractual arrangements or grant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2934
  (a) The California Motorcyclist Safety Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The money in the fund is available, when appropriated by the Legislature,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 2935
  The Department of Motor Vehicles shall, in addition to other fees, collect a fee of two dollars ($2) upon initial registration and renewal of registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3000
  There is in the Department of Motor Vehicles a New Motor Vehicle Board, which consists of nine members.
• California Vehicle Code Section 3001
  (a) Four of the appointive members of the board shall be new motor vehicle dealers as defined in Section 426 who have engaged for a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3002
  The appointments of the appointive members shall be made effective as of the effective date of this article.
• California Vehicle Code Section 3003
  (a) Each appointive member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years and shall hold office until the appointment and qualification...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3004
  Members of the board shall take an oath of office as provided in the Constitution and the Government Code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 3005
  The appointing authority has the power to remove from office at any time, any member of the board appointed by such appointing authority for continued...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3006
  The board shall organize and elect a president from among its members for a term of one year at the first meeting of each year....
• California Vehicle Code Section 3007
  The board shall meet at least twice during each calendar year. Special meetings may be called at any time by the president or by any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3008
  (a) All meetings of the board shall be open and public, and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of the board, except...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3010
  Five members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, for the performance of any duty or the exercise of any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3011
  A vacancy on the board shall not impair the power of the remaining members to perform all duties and exercise all powers of the board,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3012
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day actually spent in the discharge of official...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3013
  The board shall adopt a seal and such other device as the members may desire thereon, by which they shall authenticate all papers and documents...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3014
  The board may appoint an executive director, who shall be exempt from civil service requirements, and who shall devote as much time as may be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3015
  In addition to the office of the executive director in Sacramento, the department shall, as the need therefor occurs, secure adequate rooms for the meetings...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3016
  (a) New motor vehicle dealers and other licensees under the jurisdiction of the board shall be charged fees sufficient to fully fund the activities of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050
  The board shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt rules and regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.1
  (a) In a proceeding, hearing, or in the discharge of duties imposed under this chapter, the board, its executive director, or an administrative law judge...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.2
  (a) Obedience to subpoenas issued to compel attendance of witnesses, or the production of books, records, papers, and other documents at the proceeding or hearing,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.3
  A witness, other than an officer or employee of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, who appears by order of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.4
  In a protest or petition before the board, the board, its executive director, or an administrative law judge designated by the board or its executive...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.5
  Pursuant to Section 3016, the board shall establish a fee for the initial filing by any party in regard to any appeal, protest, or petition...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.6
  The board or its executive director may, in the event of a granting of a continuance of a scheduled matter, assess costs of the board...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3050.7
  (a) The board may adopt stipulated decisions and orders, without a hearing pursuant to Section 3066, to resolve one or more issues raised by a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3051
  This chapter does not apply to any person licensed as a transporter under Article 1 (commencing with Section 11700) or as a salesperson under Article...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3052
  (a) On or before the 10th day after the last day on which reconsideration of a final decision of the department can be ordered, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3053
  The board shall determine the appeal upon the administrative record of the department, any evidence adduced at any hearing of the board, and upon any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3054
  The board shall have the power to reverse or amend the decision of the department if it determines that any of the following exist: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3055
  The board shall also have the power to amend, modify, or reverse the penalty imposed by the department.
• California Vehicle Code Section 3056
  When the order reverses the decision of the department, the board may direct the reconsideration of the matter in the light of its order and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3057
  The board shall fix an effective date for its orders not more than 30 days from the day the order is served upon the parties...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3058
  Either party may seek judicial review of final orders of the board. Time for filing an action for such review shall not be more than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3060
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20999.1 of the Business and Professions Code or the terms of any franchise, no franchisor shall terminate or refuse to continue any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3061
  In determining whether good cause has been established for modifying, replacing, terminating, or refusing to continue a franchise, the board shall take into consideration the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3062
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if a franchisor seeks to enter into a franchise establishing an additional motor vehicle dealership within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3063
  In determining whether good cause has been established for not entering into or relocating an additional franchise for the same line-make, the board shall take...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3064
  (a) Every franchisor shall specify to its franchisees the delivery and preparation obligations of such franchisees prior to delivery of new motor vehicles to retail...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3065
  (a) Every franchisor shall properly fulfill every warranty agreement made by it and adequately and fairly compensate each of its franchisees for labor and parts...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3065.1
  (a) All claims made by a franchisee for payment under the terms of a franchisor incentive program shall be either approved or disapproved within 30...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3066
  (a) Upon receiving a notice of protest pursuant to Section 3060, 3062, 3064, 3065, 3065.1, 3070, 3072, 3074, 3075, or 3076, the board shall fix...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3067
  (a) The decision of the board shall be in writing and shall contain findings of fact and a determination of the issues presented. The decision...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3068
  Either party may seek judicial review of final decisions of the board. Time for filing for such review shall not be more than 45 days...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3069
  The provisions of this article shall be applicable to all franchises existing between dealers and manufacturers, manufacturer branches, distributors and distributor branches at the time...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3069.1
  Sections 3060 to 3065.1, inclusive, do not apply to a franchise authorizing a dealership, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 3072.
• California Vehicle Code Section 3070
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20999.1 of the Business and Professions Code or the terms of any franchise, a franchisor of a dealer of new recreational vehicles,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3071
  In determining whether good cause has been established for modifying, replacing, terminating, or refusing to continue a franchise of a dealer of new recreational vehicles,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3072
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if a franchisor seeks to enter into a franchise establishing an additional motor vehicle dealership within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3072.5
  For the purposes of this article, a "recreational vehicle line-make" is a group or groups of recreational vehicles defined by the terms of a written...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3073
  In determining whether good cause has been established for not entering into or relocating an additional franchise for the same recreational vehicle line-make, the board...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3074
  (a) A franchisor shall specify to its franchisees the delivery and preparation obligations of the franchisees prior to delivery of new recreational vehicles to retail...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3075
  (a) A franchisor shall properly fulfill every warranty agreement made by it and adequately and fairly compensate each of its franchisees for labor and parts...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3076
  (a) All claims made by a franchisee for payment under the terms of a franchisor incentive program shall be either approved or disapproved within 30...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3077
  (a) In addition to fees imposed under Sections 3016 and 11723, the department shall impose a one-time additional fee on those dealers subject to this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3078
  (a) If the board receives a complaint from a member of the public seeking a refund involving the sale or lease of, or a replacement...
• California Vehicle Code Section 3079
  This article applies only to a franchise entered into or renewed on or after January 1, 2004.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000
  (a) (1) No person shall drive, move, or leave standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.1
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), (c), or (d) of this section, or subdivision (b) of Section 43654 of the Health and Safety...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.2
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) of Section 43654 of the Health and Safety Code, and, commencing on April 1, 2005, except for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.3
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 44011 of the Health and Safety Code, the department shall require biennially, upon renewal of registration of any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.37
  (a) Upon application for renewal of registration of a motor vehicle, the department shall require that the applicant submit either a form approved by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.38
  (a) The department shall suspend, cancel, or revoke the registration of a vehicle when it determines that any of the following circumstances has occurred: (1)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.4
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 6700, 6702, and 6703, any vehicle which is registered to a nonresident owner, and which is based in California...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.5
  (a) The department shall register an autoette, as defined in Section 175, as a motor vehicle. (b) The owner of an autoette shall remove the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4000.6
  A commercial motor vehicle, singly or in combination, that operates with a declared gross or combined gross vehicle weight that exceeds 10,000 pounds shall be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4001
  All vehicles exempt from the payment of registration fees shall be registered as otherwise required by this code by the person having custody thereof, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4002
  When moved or operated under a permit issued by the department, registration is not required of: (a) A vehicle not previously registered while being moved...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4003
  A permit, as described in Section 9258, may be issued by the department for operating any of the following vehicles, except a crane: (a) A...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4003.5
  (a) Upon payment of the fee specified in Section 9258.5, the department shall issue to a manufacturer or dealer a one-trip permit authorizing a new...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4004
  (a) (1) Commercial motor vehicles meeting the registration requirements of a foreign jurisdiction, and subject to registration but not entitled to exemption from registration or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4004.5
  The owner of any motor vehicle subject to the registration provisions of this chapter, or exempted therefrom, may file with the department, at the time...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4004.7
  (a) If the apportioned registration issued under Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050) of Chapter 4 for a commercial vehicle or vehicle combination that was...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4005
  Any vehicle subject to registration may be operated within a disaster area or region for the purpose of assisting in disaster relief work, under a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4006
  A vehicle which is driven or moved upon a highway only for the purpose of crossing the highway from one property to another in accordance...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4007
  The department, the Public Utilities Commission, and the State Board of Equalization shall enter into an interagency agreement to establish a coordinated system for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4009
  A vehicle transported upon a highway, no part of which is in contact with the highway, is exempt from registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4010
  Special construction equipment and special mobile equipment are exempt from registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4012
  Any vehicle, implement, or equipment specifically designed or altered for and used exclusively in the maintenance or operation of cemetery grounds, which is only incidentally...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4013
  Any forklift truck which is designed primarily for loading and unloading and for stacking materials and is operated upon a highway only for the purpose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4014
  Any portable or collapsible dolly carried in a tow truck or in a truck used by an automobile dismantler and used upon a highway exclusively...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4015
  Any privately owned vehicle designed or capable of being used for firefighting purposes when operated upon a highway only in responding to, and returning from,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4016
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4000, unregistered vehicles may be left standing upon a highway adjacent to a vehicle dealer's place of business when done...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4017
  The provisions of Section 4000 shall not apply to the moving or operating of a vehicle during the period of time in which application may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4018
  Any logging vehicle is exempt from registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4019
  A golf cart operated pursuant to Section 21115 is exempt from registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4020
  A motorized bicycle operated upon a highway is exempt from registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4021
  Any vehicle that is designed or altered for, and used exclusively for, the refueling of aircraft at a public airport is exempt from registration, if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4022
  A vehicle repossessed pursuant to the terms of a security agreement is exempt from registration solely for the purpose of transporting the vehicle from the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4023
  A low-speed vehicle operated pursuant to Section 21115 or 21115.1 is exempt from registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4150
  Application for the original or renewal registration of a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code shall be made by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4150.1
  (a) On a form provided by the department, the registered owner of record, lessee, or the owner's designee shall certify and report the declared gross...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4150.2
  Application for the original registration or renewal of the registration of a motorcycle shall be made by the owner to the department upon the appropriate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4150.5
  Ownership of title to a vehicle subject to registration may be held by two (or more) coowners as provided in Section 682 of the Civil...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4150.7
  (a) Ownership of title to a vehicle subject to registration may be held in beneficiary form that includes a direction to transfer ownership of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4151
  The department shall not accept an application for the original registration of a vehicle in this State unless the vehicle at the time of application...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4152
  (a) The department may accept an application for registration of a vehicle which is not within this state, but which is to be registered to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4152.5
  Except as provided for in subdivision (c) of Section 9553, when California registration is required of a vehicle last registered in a foreign jurisdiction, an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4153
  If the vehicle to be registered is a specially constructed or remanufactured vehicle, the application shall also state that fact and contain additional information as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4154
  The department may not issue or renew the registration of a farm labor vehicle unless the owner of the vehicle provides verification to the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4155
  Registration under this code shall apply to any vehicle owned by the United States government, the state, or any city, county, or political subdivision of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4156
  (a) Other provisions of this code notwithstanding, and except as provided in subdivision (b), the department in its discretion may issue a temporary permit to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4157
  In the absence of the regularly required supporting evidence of ownership upon application for registration or transfer of a vehicle, the department may accept an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4158
  In the event the vehicle is no longer registered in this state and the currently valid certificate of ownership is surrendered to the department, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4159
  Whenever any person after making application for the registration of a vehicle required to be registered under this code, or after obtaining registration either as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4160
  Any registered owner of a vehicle who moves or acquires a new address different from the address shown upon the registration card issued for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4161
  (a) Whenever a motor vehicle engine or motor is installed, except temporarily, in a motor vehicle which is identified on the ownership and registration certificates...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4163
  The owner of three or more motor vehicles is not required to notify the department or to pay the fee required under Section 9257 when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4166
  The department may assign a distinguishing vehicle identification number to a motor vehicle whenever the motor or other identifying number thereon is removed, destroyed or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4300
  Upon application for registration of a vehicle previously registered outside this State, the application shall be certified by the applicant and shall state that the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4300.5
  An application for registration under this chapter of a vehicle previously registered outside of this state shall be accompanied by payment of the amount required...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4301
  The applicant shall surrender to the department all unexpired license plates, seals, certificates, or other evidence of foreign registration as may be in his possession...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4302
  Upon application made at the time of their surrender to the department and upon payment of a fee of one dollar ($1), the department shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4303
  If in the course of interstate operation of a vehicle registered in another state it is desirable to retain registration in such state, the applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4304
  Upon application for registration of a vehicle previously registered outside this State, the department shall grant full faith and credit to the currently valid certificate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4305
  In the absence of knowledge by the department that any certificate of title issued by another state is forged, fraudulent, or void, the acceptance thereof...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4306
  In the event a certificate of title issued by another state shows any lien or encumbrance upon the vehicle therein described, then the department upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4307
  In the event application is made in this state for registration of a vehicle and the department is not satisfied as to the ownership of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4308
  In the event the department refuses to grant an application for registration in this State of a vehicle previously registered in another state, the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4309
  The department shall forthwith mail a notice of the filing of any application for registration of a vehicle previously registered outside this state upon written...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4450
  The department upon registering a vehicle shall issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the owner, or both...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4451
  The certificate of ownership shall contain all of the following: (a) Not less than the information required upon the face of the registration card. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4452
  The department may issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner of a vehicle without requiring registration, and may issue a facsimile copy of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4453
  (a) The registration card shall contain upon its face, the date issued, the name and residence or business address or mailing address of the owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4453.2
  In addition to the information required under Section 4453, the registration card of every farm labor vehicle shall contain the words, "Farm Labor Vehicle," in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4453.5
  (a) In the case of leased vehicles, the lessor and the lessee shall be shown on the registration card as the owner and the lessee...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4453.6
  On request of any member of the California Highway Patrol, any regularly employed and salaried police officer or deputy sheriff, or any reserve police officer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4454
  (a) Every owner, upon receipt of a registration card, shall maintain the same or a facsimile copy thereof with the vehicle for which issued. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4455
  Any permit issued under Section 4004 shall be carried in the vehicle for which issued at all times while it is being operated in this
• California Vehicle Code Section 4456
  (a) When selling a vehicle, dealers and lessor-retailers shall use numbered report-of-sale forms issued by the department. The forms shall be used in accordance with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4456.1
  (a) A dealer or lessor-retailer who violates paragraph (1), (2), or (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 4456 shall pay to the department an administrative...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4456.3
  (a) The department shall charge a dealer or lessor-retailer a fee, as established by the director pursuant to subdivision (b), for each vehicle sold by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4457
  If any registration card or license plate is stolen, lost, mutilated, or illegible, the owner of the vehicle for which the same was issued, as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4458
  If both license plates or a permanent trailer identification plate are lost or stolen, the registered owner shall immediately notify a law enforcement agency, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4459
  If any certificate of ownership is stolen, lost, mutilated or illegible, the legal owner or, if none, then the owner of the vehicle for which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4460
  (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles, the Traffic Adjudication Board, and the Department of the California Highway Patrol, any regularly employed and salaried police officer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4461
  (a) No person may lend any certificate of ownership, registration card, license plate, special plate, validation tab, or permit issued to him or her if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4461.3
  In addition to any fine imposed for conviction of a violation of Section 4461 or 22507.8, a city or county may adopt an ordinance or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4461.5
  In addition to, or instead of, any fine imposed for conviction of a violation of subdivision (c) or (d) of Section 4461, the court may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4462
  (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall present the registration or identification card or other evidence of registration of any or all vehicles under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4462.5
  Every person who commits a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 4462, with intent to avoid compliance with vehicle registration requirements of Article 1 (commencing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4463
  (a) A person who, with intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud, commits any of the following acts is guilty of a felony and upon conviction...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4463.3
  In addition to, or instead of, any fine imposed for conviction of a violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 4463, the court may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4463.5
  (a) No person shall manufacture or sell a decorative or facsimile license plate of a size substantially similar to the license plate issued by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4464
  No person shall display upon a vehicle a license plate altered from its original markings.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4465
  A legal owner of record of a vehicle may request, and the department shall furnish, information regarding the current registration status of the vehicle, including...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4466
  (a) The department shall not issue a duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate if, after a search of the records of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4467
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall issue new and different license plates immediately upon request to the registered owner of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4600
  Certificates of ownership shall not be renewed annually but shall remain valid until suspended, revoked, or canceled by the department for cause or upon a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4601
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this code, every vehicle registration and registration card expires at midnight on the expiration date designated by the director...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4601.5
  Notwithstanding Section 4601, the registration for vehicles registered pursuant to the Partial Year Registration Program as described in Article 5 (commencing with Section 9700) of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4602
  Application for renewal of a vehicle registration shall be made by the owner not later than midnight of the expiration date, and shall be made...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4603
  Whenever in his opinion the interests of the State will be promoted thereby, the director with the approval of the Governor may extend for a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4604
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), prior to the expiration of the registration of a vehicle, if that registration is not to be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4604.2
  (a) When the registration of a vehicle registered on a partial year basis has expired and the vehicle is not thereafter operated, moved, or left...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4604.5
  (a) (1) If the vehicle has not been operated, moved, or left standing upon any highway subsequent to the expiration of the vehicle's registration, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4605
  Notwithstanding Section 4000 of this code, and notwithstanding Section 38020 of this code, no fees or penalties imposed under this code or under Part 5...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4606
  Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (a) of Section 5204 to the contrary, when an application for the registration of a vehicle has been made as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4607
  The department, upon renewing a registration, shall issue a new registration card to the owner as upon an original registration.
• California Vehicle Code Section 4609
  The department may extend the life of the current series of license plates, outstanding during 1957, and may hereafter issue a new series of license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4610
  The department may authorize an endorsement of a receipt or the validation of a registration card or potential registration card as provided in this code...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4750
  The department shall refuse registration, or renewal or transfer of registration, upon any of the following grounds: (a) The application contains any false or fraudulent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4750.1
  (a) If the department receives an application for registration of a specially constructed passenger vehicle or pickup truck after it has registered 500 specially constructed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4750.4
  Information provided by an insurer to the department pursuant to Section 11580.10 of the Insurance Code and former Section 4750.2, as added by Chapter 946...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4750.5
  (a) The department shall withhold the registration or the transfer of registration of any vehicle sold at retail to any applicant by any person other...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4751
  The department may refuse registration or the renewal or transfer of registration of a vehicle in any of the following events: (a) If the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4755
  The department shall refuse registration, or renewal or transfer of registration for any commercial motor vehicle subject to Section 4000.6, if the owner or operator...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4760
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (d), the department shall refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4760.1
  (a) The department shall, before renewing the registration of any vehicle, check the driver's license record of all registered owners for conviction of traffic violations...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4761
  The department shall include on each potential registration card issued for use at the time of renewal, or on an accompanying document, an itemization of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4762
  The department shall remit all parking penalties and administrative fees collected, after deducting the administrative fee authorized by Section 4763, for each notice of delinquent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4763
  The department shall assess a fee for the recording of the notice of delinquent parking violation, which is given to the department pursuant to Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4764
  Whenever a vehicle is transferred or not renewed for two renewal periods and the former registered owner or lessee of the vehicle owes a parking...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4765
  No exemption from the payment of any fee imposed by this code is an exemption from the obligation of a registered owner or lessee to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4766
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the department shall refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle for which a notice of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4770
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) or (d), the department shall refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4771
  The department shall include on each vehicle registration renewal notice issued for use at the time of renewal, or on an accompanying document, an itemization...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4772
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the department shall remit all toll evasion penalties and administrative fees collected, after deducting the administrative fee authorized...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4773
  The department shall assess a fee for the recording of the notice of delinquent toll evasion violation, which is given to the department pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4773.5
  (a) The department shall require the entire cost of initially implementing this article to be reimbursed by the issuing agencies that are private entities and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4774
  Whenever a vehicle is transferred or not renewed for two renewal periods and the former registered owner or lessee of the vehicle owes a toll...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4775
  No exemption from the payment of any fee imposed by this code is an exemption from the obligation of a registered owner or lessee to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4850
  (a) The department, upon registering a vehicle, shall issue to the owner two partially or fully reflectorized license plates or devices for a motor vehicle,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4850.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 4850 and Section 5200, the department, upon registering a truck tractor, shall issue to the owner one suitable license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4851
  Every license plate shall have displayed upon it the registration number assigned to the vehicle for which it is issued, together with the word "California"...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4852
  (a) License plates issued for motor vehicles, other than motorcycles, shall be rectangular in shape, 12 inches in length and six inches in width. The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 4853
  The department may issue one or more stickers, tabs, or other suitable devices in lieu of the license plates provided for under this code. Except...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5000
  (a) Identification plates issued for trailers, semitrailers, motor-driven cycles, and pole and pipe dollies, and such vehicles as are exempt from the payment of registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5001
  The department may issue license plates for vehicles exempt from registration fees in the same series as plates issued for nonexempt vehicles. The plates may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5001.5
  The director may enter into agreements or arrangements with motor vehicle departments in other states to provide for a reciprocal exchange of regular series license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5002
  The department may issue regular series plates to the Department of General Services for use on motor vehicles maintained within motor vehicle pools of state-owned...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5002.5
  The department shall issue regular series license plates for any motor vehicle owned by, or in the possession and use of, the Senate or Assembly,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5002.6
  (a) The Chancellor or a president of a campus of the California State University, or the president or a chancellor of a campus of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5002.7
  (a) For a county of over 20,000 square miles in area, a member of the county board of supervisors, or a county assessor, auditor, controller,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5002.8
  Any distinctive license plate issued for a motor vehicle owned by a current or retired Member of the California Legislature, which plate denotes that such...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5003
  The department shall maintain a record of the registration of exempt vehicles with regular series plates, which record shall not be open to public inspection....
• California Vehicle Code Section 5004
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any owner of a vehicle described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) which is operated or moved...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5004.1
  (a) An owner of any vehicle that is a 1962 or older model year vehicle may, after the requirements for the registration of the vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5004.1
  (a) (1) An owner of a vehicle that is a 1969 or older model-year vehicle or the owner of a commercial vehicle or a pickup...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5004.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any owner of a motorcycle manufactured in the year 1942 or prior thereto shall, upon application in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5005
  (a) Any person holding an unexpired amateur radio station license issued by the Federal Communications Commission may, after the requirements for the registration of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5006
  (a) The department may issue distinctive license plates for motor vehicles owned or leased by an honorary consular officer or a similar official when the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5006.5
  (a) The department may issue, for a fee determined by the department to be sufficient to reimburse the department for actual costs incurred pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5007
  (a) The department shall, upon application and without additional fees, issue a special license plate or plates pursuant to procedures adopted by the department to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5007.5
  (a) Upon a receipt of request for information by a local law enforcement agency or local or state agency responsible for the administration or enforcement...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5008
  (a) Any person who is regularly employed or engaged as a bona fide newspaper, newsreel, or television photographer or cameraman, may, after the requirements for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5010
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, when a motor vehicle which is leased to a school district for use as a schoolbus, as defined...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5011
  Every piece of special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment, trailer, semitrailer, and every logging vehicle shall display an identification plate issued pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5011.5
  Every limousine operated by a charter-party carrier, as defined by Section 5371.4 of the Public Utilities Code, shall display a special identification license plate issued...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5011.6
  Not later than January 1, 1995, the department and the Public Utilities Commission shall adopt a memorandum of understanding governing the exchange of information regarding...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5011.9
  (a) The department shall design the license plate specified in Section 5011.5 with the word "LIVERY" inscribed under the license plate number. (b) The department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5014
  An application by a person other than a manufacturer or dealer for an identification plate for special construction equipment, cemetery equipment, special mobile equipment, logging...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5014.1
  (a) Upon the implementation of the permanent trailer identification plate program, the following applies: (1) All trailers, except in cases where the registrant has elected...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5015
  (a) The application for an identification plate for special construction equipment, special mobile equipment, cemetery equipment, and any logging vehicle shall be made before that...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5016
  Upon proper application and payment of the fees specified in Section 5014.1 or 9261, the department shall issue an identification plate and an identification certificate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5016.5
  (a) The department may issue a special identification plate or other suitable device to a manufacturer or dealer of special construction equipment, special mobile equipment,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5017
  (a) Each identification plate issued under Section 5016 shall bear a distinctive number to identify the equipment, logging vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, or implement of husbandry...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5018
  Whenever the ownership of equipment, a logging vehicle, or an implement of husbandry is transferred, the transferee shall within 10 days thereafter make application to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5019
  The authorizations for the issuance of special license plates referred to in Sections 5005 and 5008 do not apply to trailers.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5020
  Any person holding an unexpired license for a class D radio station in the Citizens Radio Service issued by the Federal Communications Commission may, at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5021
  After the requirements for the registration of the vehicle have been complied with, the department shall issue such plates in lieu of the regular license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5022
  (a) Until December 31, 1984, any person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative 1984 Olympic reflectorized license plates and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5023
  (a) Any person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative Olympic reflectorized license plates and the department shall issue those...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5024
  (a) Any person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative collegiate reflectorized license plates, and the department shall issue those...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5030
  A motorized bicycle, as defined in Section 406, is required to display a special license plate issued by the department.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5031
  An application by a person other than a manufacturer or dealer for a license plate for a motorized bicycle shall include all the following: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5032
  (a) The application for a special license plate for a motorized bicycle shall be made before the motorized bicycle is operated or moved upon a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5033
  Upon proper application and payment of the fees specified in Section 5036, the department shall issue a special license plate and an identification card for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5034
  (a) The department may issue a special license plate or other suitable device to a manufacturer or dealer of motorized bicycles upon payment of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5035
  Each license plate issued under Section 5033 shall bear a distinctive number to identify the motorized bicycle for which it is issued and shall bear...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5036
  A service fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be paid for the issuance or transfer of a special license plate for motorized bicycles, as defined...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5037
  (a) No motorized bicycle first sold on or after July 1, 1981, shall be moved or operated upon a highway unless the owner first makes...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5038
  The department shall establish a record system that provides for identification of stolen motorized bicycles.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5039
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no dealer, manufacturer, salesman, or representative of motorized bicycles exclusively is required to be licensed or permitted pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5050
  The Legislature finds and declares that constructive leisure pursuits by California citizens is most important. This article is intended to encourage responsible participation in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5051
  As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Collector" is the owner of one or more vehicles described in Section 5004 or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5052
  Except as otherwise provided by local ordinance, a collector may maintain one or more vehicles described in Section 5051, whether currently licensed or unlicensed, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5060
  (a) An organization may apply to the department for participation in a special interest license plate program and the department shall issue special license plates...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5060.1
  Notwithstanding Section 5060 or any other provision of law to the contrary, the department shall not accept an application for participation in a special interest...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5061
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the department permits the issuance of a special interest license plate for display on a motorcycle, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5062
  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Rosenthal Blue Sky License Plate Program. (b) The Legislature hereby finds and declares...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5064
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Yosemite Foundation, shall design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article special environmental design license plates...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5066
  (a) The department, in conjunction with the California Highway Patrol, shall design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article the California memorial license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5067
  (a) The department, in consultation with the California Coastal Commission, shall design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article special environmental design license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5068
  (a) (1) Any veterans' organization may apply either individually or with other veterans' organizations to meet the application threshold set forth in Section 5060 for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5069
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), revenue derived from the additional special fees provided in Section 5068, less costs incurred by the department pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5072
  (a) Any person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of "Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids" license plates,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5074
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Polanco-Bates License Plates for the Arts Act of 1993. The California Arts Council...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5075
  (a) The department, in consultation with the California Tahoe Conservancy, shall design and make available for issuance pursuant to this article special environmental design license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5100
  The purpose of this article is to provide revenue for the California Environmental License Plate Fund.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101
  Any person who is the registered owner or lessee of a passenger vehicle, commercial motor vehicle, motorcycle, trailer, or semitrailer registered or certificated with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.2
  (a) A person otherwise eligible under this article who is a firefighter or a retired firefighter may apply for special license plates for a vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.3
  (a) Any person otherwise eligible under this article who qualifies under subdivision (b) may apply for special license plates that shall run in a separate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.4
  (a) Any person otherwise eligible under this article who is a recipient of the Army Medal of Honor, Navy Medal of Honor, Air Force Medal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.5
  (a) A person otherwise eligible under this article who is a former American prisoner of war may apply for special license plates for the vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.6
  (a) A person otherwise eligible under this article who is a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient may apply for special license plates for the vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.7
  (a) Until December 31, 1984, any person described in Section 5101 may also apply for a set of commemorative 1984 Olympic reflectorized license plates and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.8
  (a) Any person otherwise eligible under this article who is a Purple Heart recipient may apply for special license plates for vehicles that are not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5101.9
  (a) Until December 31, 1991, any person described in Section 5101 may apply for a set of commemorative Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights reflectorized...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5102
  The environmental license plates shall be the same color and design as regular passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer license plates, and shall consist...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5103
  "Environmental license plates," as used in this article, means license plates or permanent trailer identification plates that have displayed upon them the registration number assigned...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5104
  Environmental license plates shall be issued only to the registered owner or lessee of the vehicle on which they are to be displayed.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5105
  (a) An applicant for issuance of environmental license plates or renewal of such plates in the subsequent year pursuant to this article shall file an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5106
  (a) Except as provided in Section 5101.7, in addition to the regular registration fee or a permanent trailer identification fee, the applicant shall be charged...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5107
  (a) All revenue derived from the fees provided for in this article shall be deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund. (b) Not more...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5108
  Whenever any person who has been issued environmental license plates applies to the department for transfer of the plates to another passenger vehicle, commercial motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5109
  When any person who has been issued environmental license plates sells, trades, or otherwise releases ownership of the vehicle upon which the environmental license plates...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5110
  (a) The director may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. (b) Whenever two or more separate series...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5112
  (a) The department shall revise its Internet Web site to provide a direct link on the homepage to information on ordering environmental license plates. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5151
  (a) As used in this article, "state agency" means a state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission, or any other state body or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5152
  A person described in Section 5101 may apply for a specialized license plate under this article, in lieu of regular license plates.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5154
  Specialized license plates issued under this article shall have a design or contain a message that publicizes or promotes a state agency, or the official...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5155
  The design criteria for a specialized license plate are as follows: (a) The license plate for a passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, or trailer shall provide...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5156
  (a) (1) A state agency may apply to the department to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the department shall issue specialized license plates...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5157
  (a) In addition to the regular fees for an original registration or renewal of registration, the following additional fees shall be paid for the issuance,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5158
  When payment of renewal fees is not required as specified in Section 4000, or when a person determines to retain the specialized license plate upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5159
  A state agency that is eligible to participate in a specialized license plate program pursuant to this article and receives funds from the additional fees...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5160
  (a) A state agency authorized under this article to offer specialized license plates shall prepare and submit an annual accounting report to the department by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5200
  (a) When two license plates are issued by the department for use upon a vehicle, they shall be attached to the vehicle for which they...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5201
  License plates shall at all times be securely fastened to the vehicle for which they are issued so as to prevent the plates from swinging,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5201.1
  (a) A person shall not sell a product or device that obscures, or is intended to obscure, the reading or recognition of a license plate,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5202
  Every license plate issued by this State or any other jurisdiction within or without the United States shall remain attached during the period of its...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5203
  This chapter does not apply to plates which the department pursuant to law has ordered to be surrendered, transferred to another vehicle, or removed.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5204
  (a) Except as provided by subdivisions (b) and (c), a tab shall indicate the year of expiration and a tab shall indicate the month of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5205
  The department may make appropriate rules and regulations for the use and display of stickers or devices issued in lieu of license plates, and shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5205.5
  (a) For the purposes of implementing Section 21655.9, the department shall make available for issuance, for a fee determined by the department to be sufficient...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5206
  Vehicles for which weight fees are paid on a partial year basis shall display a certificate or insignia issued by the department, which shall state...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5301
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code and Part 5 (commencing with Section 10701) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5302
  (a) Motor vehicles registered in any state other than California shall not be permitted to participate in this program. (b) Section 4604 does not apply...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5303
  (a) The applicant for initial issuance of permanent registration or renewal of registration shall file an application in such form as the department shall require....
• California Vehicle Code Section 5304
  Renewal fees shall be paid pursuant to a schedule established by the department. Submission of renewal fees by an association pursuant to subdivision (b) of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5305
  In addition to any other fees due for motor vehicles registered pursuant to this article, the department may charge and collect a service fee of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5306
  Upon payment of appropriate fees, the license plate or decal and registration card issued pursuant to this article for the vehicle shall remain valid until...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5307
  (a) A fleet vehicle registered under this article may be deleted from the identified fleet when the fleet operator notifies the department of the proposed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5308
  The director shall adopt procedures for initial application, payment of fees, fleet additions or deletions, and for the cancellation of the distinguishing plates or decals...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5309
  The registration of any identified fleet vehicle is required annually.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5350
  The provisions of this division shall apply to trailer coaches except as otherwise provided in this article.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5351
  Sections 4452, 4604, 5904, 6052, and 9254, and subdivision (a) of Section 9552 do not apply to the registration or renewal of registration of any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5352
  Subject to the exemptions stated in Section 5353, registration of any trailer coach in this state is required annually.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5353
  The registration provisions of this article shall not apply to any of the following: (a) Any trailer coach which is driven or moved upon a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5354
  The registration of a foreign trailer coach owned by a nonresident shall be subject to and governed by Section 6700.
• California Vehicle Code Section 5500
  (a) Any person, other than a licensed dismantler, desiring to disassemble a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code, either partially...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5501
  The provisions of Sections 4457, 4458, and 4459 shall not apply when a vehicle is reported for dismantling. However, any person desiring to dismantle a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5505
  (a) This section applies to any vehicle reported to be a total loss salvage vehicle pursuant to Section 11515 and to any vehicle reported for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5506
  No salvage vehicle rebuilder may resell or transfer ownership of any vehicle that is subject to inspection as provided in Section 5505, unless either a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5600
  (a) No transfer of the title or any interest in or to a vehicle registered under this code shall pass, and any attempted transfer shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5600.5
  Ownership of title to a vehicle subject to registration may be transferred to two (or more) coowners as transferee to be held provided in Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5601
  Section 5600 does not apply to involuntary transfers, as upon the taking of possession by a secured party under a security agreement, or to transfers...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5602
  An owner who has made a bona fide sale or transfer of a vehicle and has delivered possession of the vehicle to a purchaser is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5603
  A legal owner may assign his title or interest in or to a vehicle registered under this code to a person other than the owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5604
  Every dealer who, upon transferring by sale, lease, or otherwise, any new or used vehicle of a type subject to registration, requires the transferee to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5604.5
  (a) Every dealer who, upon transferring by sale, lease, or otherwise, any new or used vehicle of a type subject to registration, requires the transferee...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5750
  Upon transfer of the title or any interest of the legal owner or owners in a vehicle registered under this code, the transferor shall write...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5751
  Upon transfer of the title or interest of the registered owner only in a vehicle registered under this code, the registered owner shall write his...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5751.5
  (a) Upon transfer of the title or interest of the registered owner of a motor vehicle that is subject to Part 5 (commencing with Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5752
  (a) When the required certificate of ownership is lost, stolen, damaged, or mutilated, the application for transfer may be made upon a form provided by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5753
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to fail or neglect properly to endorse, date, and deliver the certificate of ownership and, when having possession,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5900
  (a) Whenever the owner of a vehicle registered under this code sells or transfers his or her title or interest in, and delivers the possession...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5901
  (a) Every dealer or lessor-retailer, upon transferring by sale, lease, or otherwise any vehicle, whether new or used, of a type subject to registration under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5902
  Whenever any person has received as transferee a properly endorsed certificate of ownership, that person shall, within 10 days thereafter, forward the certificate with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5902.5
  Whenever any application for a registration transaction is filed with the department during the 30 days immediately preceding the date of expiration of registration of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5903
  When the department receives a copy of the judgment of abandonment and evidence of sale as specified in Section 798.61 of the Civil Code, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5904
  Whenever the ownership of any vehicle for which a certificate of ownership has been issued without registration under Section 4452 is transferred, an application for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5905
  When a security interest upon a registered vehicle is satisfied, canceled, or released by the parties thereto duly registered as owner and legal owner respectively...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5906
  When the transferee of a vehicle is a dealer who holds the same for resale and operates or moves the same upon the highways under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5906.5
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), in the case of any transfer, including, but not limited to, a transfer resulting from a sale,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5907
  A secured party who holds a security interest in a registered vehicle that constitutes inventory as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code, who has possession...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5908
  The transferee of a security interest in a registered vehicle need not make application for a transfer of registration when the interest of such transferee...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5909
  (a) Whenever the title or interest of any owner or legal owner in or to a vehicle registered under this code passes to another otherwise...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5910
  (a) Upon the death of an owner or legal owner of a vehicle registered under this code, without the decedent leaving other property necessitating probate,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5910.5
  (a) On death of the owner of a vehicle owned in beneficiary form, the vehicle belongs to the surviving beneficiary, if any. If there is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5910.7
  (a) If the department makes a transfer pursuant to Section 5910.5, the department is discharged from all liability, whether or not the transfer is consistent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5911
  Whenever application is made to the department for a transfer of registration of a vehicle to a new owner or legal owner and the applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 5912
  Whenever application is made to the department for a transfer of registration of a vehicle to a new owner or legal owner and the applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6050
  (a) The department upon receipt of a properly endorsed certificate of ownership and the required fee shall reregister the vehicle under its registration number in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6051
  If the application for a transfer is made in the manner provided in this code the department shall not be required to withhold the transfer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6052
  When application is made for transfer of the ownership of a vehicle for which a certificate of ownership has been issued without registration, upon payment...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6100
  A dealer who conducts a wholesale motor vehicle auction and who uses the form prescribed in subdivision (b) of Section 4456 shall include the phrase...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6102
  For each vehicle sold pursuant to this article, the dealer who conducts the auction shall maintain a copy of the following documents for a period...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6104
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a dealer who purchases a vehicle pursuant to this article has the same rights and remedies against the dealer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6105
  This article shall become operative on July 1, 1993.
• California Vehicle Code Section 6150
  In any criminal proceeding in which ownership, possession, or use of a motor vehicle is an issue, a copy certified by the department as its...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6151
  A party to a proceeding described in Section 6150 may provide notice to the opposing party that a showing of need will be made at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6152
  At any hearing, including, but not limited to, a scheduled trial date, involving a proceeding described in Section 6150, upon a showing of need, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6153
  Where testimony is taken and preserved for use at trial or other stage of the proceeding pursuant to Sections 6151 and 6152, the witness shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6154
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6160
  The Legislature finds and declares that when vehicles are exported and their title records are not amended to reflect exportation, it is conducive to vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6161
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following provisions and definitions apply to the following terms: (a) "Certified record of permanent exportation" shall include all...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6161
  For the purposes of this act, the term: (a) "Certified record of permanent exportation" shall include the following: (1) Titled owner's name and address. (2)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6162
  An owner of a vehicle who seeks to export a vehicle titled in this state shall appear at the department with the certificate of title...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6171
  When criminal charges have been filed involving a motor vehicle alleged to have been stolen and the vehicle is in the custody of a peace...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6172
  Upon expiration of a reasonable time for the completion of the examination, which in no event shall exceed 30 days from the date of service...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6161
  For the purposes of this act, the term: (a) "Certified record of permanent exportation" shall include the following: (1) Titled owner's name and address. (2)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6162
  An owner of a vehicle who seeks to export a vehicle titled in this state shall appear at the department with the certificate of title...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6300
  Except as provided in Sections 5905, 5907, and 5908, no security interest in any vehicle registered under this code, irrespective of whether the registration was...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6301
  When the secured party, his or her successor, or his or her assignee, has deposited, either physically or by electronic transmission pursuant to Section 1801.1,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6302
  Upon the deposit of an application for registration of a secured party as legal owner and upon the payment of the fees as provided in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6303
  Except as provided in Sections 5905, 5907 and 5908, the method provided in this chapter for perfecting a security interest on a vehicle registered under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6700
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6700.2, the owner of any vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration under this code, other than a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6700.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may issue an in-transit permit to a resident of a foreign country not more than 30...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6700.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4000.4, subdivision (a) of Section 6700, or Section 6702, a nonresident daily commuter may operate a motor vehicle on the highways of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6700.25
  (a) The department shall provide a nonresident daily commuter with external vehicle identification indicia and a corresponding identification card, upon application therefor and completion of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6700.3
  (a) An application by a nonresident daily commuter for indicia and an identification card pursuant to Section 6700.25 shall be filed with the department. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6700.4
  A nonresident daily commuter indicia shall be displayed in a location on the vehicle which is clearly visible and adjacent to the rear license plate....
• California Vehicle Code Section 6701
  (a) Any nonresident owner of a vehicle registered in a foreign state who is a member or spouse of a member of the armed forces...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6702
  Every nonresident, including any foreign corporation, having an established place of business within this state, and regularly using a vehicle of a type subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6703
  Any person entering California following discharge from the armed forces of the United States is exempted from registration of passenger vehicles, trailer coaches, and utility...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6850
  A nonresident owner of any foreign commercial vehicle shall register the vehicle in this state and pay the fees applicable thereto under this code, except...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6852
  The nonresident owner of a foreign vehicle shall be granted such privileges and freedom from registration and payment of fees imposed by this code, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6853
  Any vehicle owned by a nonresident owner not registered under this code, which vehicle is leased or rented to a user having an established place...
• California Vehicle Code Section 6854
  (a) Any owner or lessor of a commercial vehicle with primary registration and plates issued in a foreign jurisdiction which does not grant reciprocal privileges...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8000
  The Reciprocity Commission may enter into agreements with foreign jurisdictions that provide for the exemption of fees for commercial vehicles if the foreign jurisdictions provide...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8001
  The Reciprocity Commission is authorized to examine the legal requirements of commercial vehicle registration fee statutes of foreign jurisdictions which grant reciprocal privileges to out-of-state...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8002
  All reciprocity agreements, rules and regulations authorized by this chapter shall be in writing and shall be approved by endorsement by the Attorney General, as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8050
  The Legislature declares that in enacting this article, it adheres to the principle that each state should have the freedom to develop the kind of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8051
  The Reciprocity Commission may enter into agreement on behalf of this state with the duly authorized representatives of any foreign jurisdiction providing for the registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8052
  (a) The Reciprocity Commission may, on behalf of the state, enter into, and become, a member of the International Registration Plan Agreement developed by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8053
  Provisions of this code which specify and govern application filing, fee assignment, penalty assessment, and issuance of license plates and registration certificates, shall be applicable...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8054
  (a) Upon the application for transfer of ownership of a fleet of vehicles apportionately registered pursuant to this article, the department shall permit registration in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8055
  This article does not apply to any owner or lessee of a commercial vehicle with primary registration and license plates issued in a foreign jurisdiction...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8056
  Any application filed pursuant to this article which contains vehicles powered by diesel fuel shall include information concerning any diesel fuel tax permit issued by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8057
  Any person issued fleet registration pursuant to Article 9.5 (commencing with Section 5301) of Chapter 1 or this article shall: (a) Maintain fleet records that...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8058
  (a) The department shall charge interest on any underpaid fees due under this article, at the rate of 1 percent per month of the underpaid...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8100
  An application for apportioned registration received on and after January 1, 2008, and filed pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050) shall contain the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8101
  In addition to the reasons specified in Section 4750 or 4751, the department shall refuse an application for apportioned registration for the following grounds: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8102
  (a) In addition to the reasons specified in Section 8800, the department may suspend the apportioned registration of a vehicle or a fleet, when the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8103
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a hearing shall not be provided when the suspension is based solely on notification by a federal agency...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8104
  Except as provided in subdivision (e), a vehicle or a fleet for which the apportioned registration has been suspended pursuant to this article shall not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8200
  "Registrant," for purposes of this article, means any person issued apportioned fleet registration pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050).
• California Vehicle Code Section 8201
  (a) Fees determined to be due, including penalties and service fees, for the operation of a fleet apportionately registered vehicle shall be a lien upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8202
  (a) Within 30 days of the date the notice is mailed pursuant to Section 8201, the registrant may submit documentation not previously available or may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8203
  (a) When a lien is perfected pursuant to Section 8200 and the opportunity to submit additional documentation or to request a hearing has passed, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8204
  (a) When a transferee or purchaser of an apportionately registered fleet vehicle applies to the department for transfer of ownership and it is determined by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8800
  (a) The department may suspend, cancel, or revoke the registration of a vehicle or a certificate of ownership, registration card, license plate, or permit under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8801
  The department may suspend, cancel, revoke, or renew any permanent registration made under Section 4155 when the department determines that it is advisable to reissue...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8802
  Whenever the department cancels, suspends, or revokes the registration of a vehicle or a certificate of ownership, registration card, or license plates, or any nonresident...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8803
  Whenever the department cancels, suspends, or revokes any license issued pursuant to Division 5 (commencing with Section 11100), the licensee or person in possession shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 8804
  Every person who, while a resident, as defined in Section 516, of this state, with respect to any vehicle owned by him and operated in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9101
  No fees specified in this code, except fees not exempted under Section 9103, need be paid for any vehicle operated by the state, or by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9102
  The fees specified in this code except fees for duplicate plates, certificates, or cards need not be paid for any vehicle owned by an educational...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9102.5
  (a) In lieu of all other fees which are specified in this code, except fees for duplicate plates, certificates, or cards, a fee of fifteen...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9103
  No fees specified in this code, except fees for duplicate plates, certificates, or cards need be paid for any vehicle of a type subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9104
  The fees specified in this code except fees for duplicate plates, certificates, or cards need not be paid for any vehicle of a type subject...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9104.2
  The fees specified in this code, except fees for duplicate plates, certificates, or cards need not be paid for a vehicle of a type subject...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9104.5
  The fees specified in this code, except fees for registration under Section 9250, need not be paid for any vehicle of a type subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9105
  (a) Except for fees for duplicate license plates, duplicate certificates, or duplicate cards, the fees specified in this code need not be paid for a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9106
  The fees specified in this code, except fees for duplicate plates, certificates or cards, need not be paid for any vehicle of a type subject...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9107
  The weight fees for commercial vehicles specified in Sections 9400 and 9400.1 do not apply to any of the following: (a) A vehicle operated by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250
  (a) A registration fee of thirty-one dollars ($31) shall be paid to the department for the registration of every vehicle or trailer coach of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.1
  (a) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in Section 9250 shall be increased by three dollars ($3). (b) Two dollars ($2) of the increase...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.2
  (a) The department, if requested by the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District pursuant to Section 41081 of the Health and Safety Code, shall impose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.2
  (a) The department, if requested by the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District pursuant to Section 41081 of the Health and Safety Code, shall impose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.5
  (a) The department shall, if requested by the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County, collect the fee imposed pursuant to Section 65089.11 of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.7
  (a) (1) A service authority established under Section 22710 may impose a service fee of one dollar ($1) on all vehicles, except vehicles described in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.8
  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of three dollars ($3) shall be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.9
  All fees received by the department pursuant to Section 9250.8 shall be deposited in the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund. The money...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.10
  (a) (1) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, any additional fees imposed by a service...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.11
  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of one dollar ($1) may be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.12
  (a) For purposes of this section, "county" means the City and County of San Francisco. (b) In addition to any other fees specified in this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.13
  (a) (1) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of eighteen dollars ($18) shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.14
  (a) (1) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, upon the adoption of a resolution by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.15
  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code, the department shall collect an administrative service fee in the amount authorized under subdivision...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.16
  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code, the Health and Safety Code, and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a surcharge of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.17
  (a) The department shall, if requested by a county air pollution control district, air quality management district, or unified or regional air pollution control district,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.18
  (a) The department shall collect the administrative fee established pursuant to Sections 44081 and 44081.6 of the Health and Safety Code upon the renewal of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9250.19
  (a) (1) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, upon the adoption of a resolution pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9252
  (a) In addition to the registration fee specified in Section 9250 and any weight fee, there shall be paid a service fee of fifteen dollars...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9254
  A service fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be paid to the department for a certificate of ownership issued without registration of the vehicle.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9255
  Upon application for the transfer of the title or any interest of an owner or legal owner in or to a vehicle registered under this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9255.1
  A service fee of two dollars ($2), in addition to other required fees, shall be paid to the department upon the initial issuance of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9255.2
  (a) In addition to any other fees specified in this code and the Revenue and Taxation Code, a fee of not more than fifty dollars...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9255.3
  Notwithstanding Section 9255, any vehicle transferred pursuant to Section 14607.6 shall be subject to a title transfer fee equal to the department's actual cost of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9255.5
  Upon application for transfer of registration pursuant to Section 5911, a fee as specified in Section 9265 shall be paid to the department in addition...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9256
  Upon filing with the department an application for transfer of registration to the chattel mortgagee as provided herein there shall be paid to the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9257
  Every notice of the installation in a vehicle of a motor vehicle engine or motor required to be filed under Section 4161 shall be accompanied...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9257.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a fee of fifty dollars ($50) shall be paid for each temporary permit issued pursuant to Section 4156...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9258
  A fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be paid to the department for each one-trip permit issued pursuant to Section 4003.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9258.5
  A fee of thirty-five dollars ($35) shall be paid to the department for each one-trip permit issued pursuant to Section 4003.5.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9259
  A fee of two dollars ($2) shall be paid for each sticker or device issued under Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050) of Chapter 4...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9259.3
  For each application to include an additional operating area or a registration issued under Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050) of Chapter 4 of Division...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9259.5
  For each application for immediate telephone service for a registration issued under Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050) of Chapter 4 of Division 3, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9260
  (a) The fee for a temporary registration issued under Section 4004 is one-quarter of the annual fees in Division 3 (commencing with Section 4000) of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9261
  (a) A service fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be paid for an identification plate issued pursuant to Section 5014. Publicly owned special construction equipment,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9261.1
  (a) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in Section 9261, as adjusted pursuant to Section 1678, shall be increased by five dollars ($5). (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9262
  (a) The fee for a license issued to dealers and lessor-retailers is as follows: (1) For the original license, or an ownership change which requires...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9262.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in amending Section 9262 in 1990 to increase the fee for the annual renewal of the license of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9263
  Any automobile dismantler who fails to comply with Section 11520, or any other person who fails to comply with Section 5500 or 11520, shall pay...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9265
  Upon application for duplicates or substitutes as permitted under this code, the following fees shall be paid: (a) For a duplicate certificate of ownership or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9266
  The fee for a temporary permit issued under Section 5010 is one-tenth of the annual fees in Division 3 (commencing with Section 4000) of this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9266.5
  The fee for a temporary permit issued under subdivision (b) of Section 9102.5 is one-tenth of the annual fees in Division 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9268
  In addition to any other registration fee and notwithstanding Section 9559, an additional fee of one dollar ($1) shall be collected upon the original registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9269
  A licensed automobile dismantler who acquires, for the purpose of dismantling, a vehicle of a type subject to registration under this code, and who complies...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9270
  (a) The department may charge a service fee of not more than fifteen dollars ($15), in addition to other fees payable under this code, for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9271
  In addition to any other fees specified in this code, a fee sufficient to cover the department's costs for the inspections performed pursuant to Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9400
  Except as provided in Section 9400.1, and in addition to any other registration fee, there shall be paid the fees set forth in this section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9400.1
  (a) (1) In addition to any other required fee, there shall be paid the fees set forth in this section for the registration of commercial...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9400.3
  (a) In order to ensure that Chapter 973 of the Statutes of 2000 is implemented as originally intended by the Legislature, the department may not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9400.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except for restrictions in existence on June 1, 1989, and except as provided in subdivision (d), so long...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9400.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the voters approve Senate Constitutional Amendment 1 of the 1989-90 Regular Session, no local agency may impose a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9401
  (a) Motor vehicles manufactured in or prior to 1936, are exempted from the payment of the weight fees provided for in Section 9400. (b) Notwithstanding...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9404
  (a) Station wagons, except those used in the transportation of passengers for hire, are exempted from the payment of weight fees provided for in Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9405
  Agricultural water-well boring rigs are exempt from the fees provided in Section 9400.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9406
  Alterations or additions to registered vehicles for which fees have been paid under Section 9400 or 9400.1 placing the vehicles in weight fee classifications under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9406.1
  Prior to operation of a vehicle at a declared gross vehicle weight greater than reported to, and registered by, the department, the owner shall make...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9407
  The fee required under Section 9400 and 9400.1 shall be reduced proportionately for each month which has elapsed since the expiration of the last issued...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9408
  (a) Whenever any registered commercial vehicle, including, but not limited to, any commercial vehicle operating in California with apportioned registration, for which fees have been...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9409
  Any forklift truck which is designed primarily for loading and unloading and for stacking materials and is operated or drawn along a highway unladen is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9410
  (a) One commercial vehicle weighing less than 8,001 pounds unladen, which displays the distinguishing license plate designated in, and is registered to a person who...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9550
  All fees required to be paid by a vehicle dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, representative, or transporter, in accordance with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9551
  All fees required to be paid by an automobile dismantler, in accordance with this code, for any license, or special plates, shall be paid at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9551.2
  (a) When an application is made for a renewal or initial registration of a vehicle, the department shall apply the amount of any operative offset...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9552
  (a) Whenever any vehicle is operated upon any highway of this state without the fees first having been paid as required by this code, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9553
  (a) A penalty shall be added upon any delinquent application as provided in Section 9552, except as provided in Section 4604 or 9706, or in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9553.5
  (a) Whenever fees have not been paid in full for an application for registration of vehicles registered pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9553.7
  The penalty for delinquency with respect to any transfer is fifteen dollars ($15) and applies only to the last transfer.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9554
  (a) A penalty shall be added on any application for renewal of registration made later than midnight of the date of expiration or on or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9554.1
  The amount of any penalty calculated pursuant to Section 9554 or subdivision (b) of Section 18116 of the Health and Safety Code shall be reduced...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9554.2
  Upon the operation of a commercial motor vehicle at a greater gross vehicle weight than had been reported to and registered by the department, a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9554.5
  (a) On and after January 1, 2003, a penalty shall be added on any application for original registration made later than midnight of the date...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9555
  Whenever any trailer coach is in this State without the registration fee having first been paid as required by this code, the fee is delinquent.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9556
  Whenever any person or organization authorized by the department under Section 4610 receives an application for renewal of registration accompanied by the proper fee and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9557
  (a) No penalty shall be imposed for delinquent payment of any fee required to be paid under this code in the event any instrument for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9558
  If a check in payment of a fee or penalty is not paid by the bank on which it is drawn on its first presentation,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9559
  In computing any registration or weight fee or penalty imposed by this code, whether on a proration or otherwise, a fraction of a dollar is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9559.5
  When, by reason of the assignment or reassignment of a renewal registration date by the director, the registration year is less than, or more than,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9560
  (a) The department shall waive all penalties that may be due for late payment of registration renewal fees on a vehicle for any period during...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9561
  (a) When a legal owner or his or her agent repossesses a vehicle on which renewal fees are due, the department shall waive any renewal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9561.5
  The department shall waive any penalties that may be due for late payment of registration renewal fees on a vehicle if all of the following...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9562
  (a) When a transferee or purchaser of a vehicle applies for transfer of registration, as provided in Section 5902, and it is determined by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9563
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, when a vehicle is rebuilt and restored to operation after it has been reported to be dismantled pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9564
  (a) A scrap metal processor, as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 221, who acquires a vehicle of a type subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9565
  (a) (1) The department shall develop and administer a vehicle registration amnesty program, which shall be in effect from January 1, 2010, until December 31,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9700
  With respect to vehicles subject to additional registration fees under Section 9400 or 9400.1, a proportionate share of the additional fees may be paid for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9702
  An additional fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be charged for each application for partial year registration, or renewal thereof, whenever a person pays the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9704
  Every partial year vehicle registration and every certificate or insignia issued under this article shall expire at midnight on the last day of the period...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9706
  (a) Application for partial year registration in conjunction with an application for original California registration shall be made by the owner within 20 days of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9706.1
  If the registration card or potential registration card is unavailable, payment of the fee prescribed by Section 9265 for the issuance of a duplicate registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9710
  When an application for renewal of registration of a vehicle has been made as required by Section 9706, the vehicle may be operated on the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9711
  This article does not apply to any owner or lessor of a commercial vehicle based in a foreign jurisdiction which does not grant reciprocity or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9800
  (a) Payments for any of the following, and any interest, penalties, or service fees added thereto, required to register or transfer the registration of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9801
  (a) (1) When the payment required for the registration or transfer of a vehicle is delinquent pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 9800, the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9802
  (a) The Registrar of Vehicles or authorized representative shall conduct the sale in the same manner as provided by law for the seizure and sale...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9803
  Nothing in this code prevents a review or other action as may be permitted by the Constitution and laws of this state by a court...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9804
  (a) Any action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction to review any order of the department to seize and sell a vehicle shall be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9805
  (a) The department may file in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, or any other county, a certificate specifying...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9806
  The clerk of the court, immediately upon the filing of the certificate specified in Section 9805, shall enter a judgment for the people of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9808
  Execution shall issue upon the judgment specified in Section 9806 upon request of the department in the same manner as execution may issue upon other...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9840
  As used in this division, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) "Vessel" includes every description of watercraft used or capable of being...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9845
  The director, deputy director, registrar, deputy registrar, investigators of the department, and peace officers, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9850
  Every undocumented vessel using the waters or on the waters of this state shall be currently numbered. No person shall operate nor shall any county,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9851
  The department may adopt rules and regulations for the registration of undocumented vessels belonging to the state, local public agencies, or to the United States...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9852
  The department shall promulgate rules and regulations setting forth requirements relative to establishing proof of ownership to be submitted by the owner at the time...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9852.5
  Ownership of an undocumented vessel subject to registration may be held by two or more coowners as follows: (a) A vessel may be registered in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9852.7
  (a) Ownership of an undocumented vessel subject to registration may be held in beneficiary form that includes a direction to transfer ownership of the vessel...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9852.9
  (a) On and after July 1, 2008, the form for an initial application for a number prepared by the department pursuant to Section 9853 shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853
  (a) The owner of each vessel requiring numbering by this state shall file an initial application for a number with the department or with an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.1
  Upon receipt of the application in approved form, the department shall issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a certificate of number...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.2
  The owner shall paint on or attach to each side of the forward half of the vessel the identification number in such manner as may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.3
  The certificate of number for vessels less than 26 feet in length and leased or rented to another for the latter's noncommercial use of less...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.4
  (a) The department may issue one or more stickers, tabs, or other suitable devices to identify vessels as being currently registered. The size, shape, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.5
  Upon request, the department shall issue for any power-driven pleasure craft which is constructed of wood and which was constructed prior to December 31, 1942,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.6
  (a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 9853 shall be increased by ten dollars ($10)....
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.7
  (a) (1) When the retail seller of an undocumented sterndrive or inboard vessel, that contains a spark-ignition marine engine below 373 kW (500 hp) rated...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9853.8
  (a) This section applies only to a sterndrive or inboard vessel that contains a spark-ignition marine engine below 373 kW (500 hp) rated power output...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9854
  The owner of any vessel already covered by a number in full force and effect which has been issued to it pursuant to then operative...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9855
  If the ownership of an undocumented vessel changes, the existing certificate of ownership and a new application form accompanied by a fee of fifteen dollars...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9856
  (a) It is not required that the department issue, or that an application be made for a new certificate of ownership or a new certificate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9857
  If an agency of the United States government shall have in force an overall system of identification numbering for undocumented vessels within the United States,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9858
  The department may issue any certificate of ownership and certificate of number or temporary certificate of number directly or the department may authorize any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9858.1
  Any documentary preparation charge by an authorized agent of the department shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20).
• California Vehicle Code Section 9858.5
  Any licensed yacht and ship broker acting as an authorized agent of the department may collect use tax on a vessel transfer when applicable, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9859
  All money received by an agent from the sale of certificates of number or temporary certificates of number and use tax shall be kept separate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9860
  (a) Certificates of number shall be renewed before midnight of the expiration date by presentation of the certificate of number last issued for the vessel...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9861
  All certificates of number expire on December 31 of every odd-numbered year.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9862
  (a) If the initial application for a number is not received by the department on or before the date set by the department, a penalty...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9862.5
  In computing any penalty imposed under this chapter, a fraction of a dollar shall be disregarded unless it equals or exceeds fifty cents ($0.50), in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9863
  (a) Except as required under subdivision (b), and except moneys collected under Section 9875, fees received pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9864
  The owner shall furnish the department notice of the wrecking or dismantling, or the destruction or abandonment of an undocumented vessel within 15 days thereof....
• California Vehicle Code Section 9865
  Any holder of a certificate of number shall notify the department within 15 days, if his address no longer conforms to the address appearing on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9866
  No number other than the number issued to an undocumented vessel or granted reciprocity pursuant to this chapter shall be painted, attached, or otherwise displayed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9867
  A fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be charged for a duplicate of certificate of number, certificate of ownership, or current year registration stickers.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9867.5
  Upon application for transfer of registration pursuant to Section 9917, a fee as specified in Section 9867 shall be paid to the department in addition...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9868
  Fees received pursuant to this chapter are appropriated for payment of refunds of money received or collected in the payment of fees, permits, or services...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9869
  The department shall transmit information from each initial application and each transfer application or renewal application to the county assessor in the county of residence...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9870
  A nonprofit public benefit corporation governed by the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law (Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of Division 2 of Title 1...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9871
  Upon application for original registration or transfer of registration of an undocumented vessel, the department may assign an appropriate hull identification number to such vessel...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9871.5
  Upon application for renewal of registration of an undocumented vessel, the applicant is required to furnish the hull identification number if the records of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9872
  No person shall intentionally deface, destroy, or alter the hull identification number of a vessel required to be numbered under this chapter without written authorization...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9872.1
  (a) No person shall knowingly buy, sell, offer for sale, receive, or have in his or her possession any vessel, or component part thereof, from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9872.5
  No certificate of ownership shall be issued under this chapter for any "amphibious vehicle" for which a certificate of ownership may be issued by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9873
  An undocumented vessel shall not be required to be numbered under this chapter if it is: (a) Already covered by a number in full force...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9874
  The department may suspend, cancel, or revoke the registration of a vessel, a certificate of number, sticker, certificate of ownership, or temporary certificate of number...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9875
  Except as provided in Section 40000.8, any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation of the department adopted pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9880
  (a) The department shall not renew the certificate of number of, or allow a transfer of any title to or interest in, a vessel if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9900
  No transfer of the title or any interest in or to an undocumented vessel numbered under this code shall pass, and any attempted transfer shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9901
  Whenever any person has received as transferee a properly endorsed certificate of ownership, he or she shall, within 10 days thereafter, forward the certificates with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9902
  The department, upon receipt of a properly endorsed certificate of ownership and a new application form and the required fee, shall issue a new certificate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9903
  (a) Prior to the issuance of any certificate of ownership the department shall obtain a statement in writing, signed by the transferee or transferor, showing:...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9905
  An owner who has made a bona fide sale or transfer of an undocumented vessel and has delivered possession of the vessel to a purchaser...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9906
  A legal owner may assign his title or interest in or to an undocumented vessel numbered under this code to a person other than the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9907
  Upon transfer of the title or any interest of the legal owner or legal owners in an undocumented vessel numbered under this code, the transferor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9908
  Upon transfer of the title or interest or any part thereof of the registered owner only in an undocumented vessel numbered under this code, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9909
  When the required certificate of ownership is lost, stolen, damaged, or mutilated, application for transfer may be made upon a form provided by the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9910
  It is unlawful for any person to fail or neglect to deliver the certificate of number and, when having possession, to properly endorse, date, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9911
  Whenever the owner of an undocumented vessel numbered under this code sells or transfers his or her title or interest in, or any part thereof,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9912
  Every dealer upon transferring by sale, lease or otherwise any undocumented vessel, whether new or used, required to be numbered under this code, shall, not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9913
  When a security interest upon a numbered vessel is satisfied, canceled, or released by the parties thereto who are the registered owner and legal owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9914
  The transferee of a security interest in the interest of a legal owner of a numbered vessel need not make application for a transfer of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9915
  (a) Whenever the title or interest of any owner or legal owner in or to a vessel numbered under this code passes to another otherwise...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9916
  (a) If 40 days have elapsed since the death of an owner or legal owner of any vessel numbered under this division without the decedent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9916.5
  (a) On death of the owner of a vessel numbered under this division and owned in beneficiary form, the vessel belongs to the surviving beneficiary,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9916.7
  (a) If the department makes a transfer pursuant to Section 9916.5, the department is discharged from all liability, whether or not the transfer is consistent...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9917
  Whenever application is made to the department for a transfer of ownership of a vessel to a new owner or legal owner and the applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9918
  If the application for a transfer is made in the manner provided in this code, the department shall not be required to withhold the transfer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9919
  No security interest in any vessel numbered under this code, irrespective of whether such number was effected prior or subsequent to the creation of such...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9920
  When the secured party, his successor or assignee, has deposited with the department a properly endorsed certificate of ownership showing the secured party as legal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9921
  Upon the deposit with the department of the certificate of ownership showing the secured party as legal owner as provided in Section 9919 hereof, the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9922
  The method provided in this chapter for perfecting a security interest in a vessel numbered under this code is exclusive.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9923
  In the absence of the regularly required supporting evidence of ownership upon application for registration or transfer of a vessel, the department may accept an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9924
  In the event the vessel is no longer registered in this state and the currently valid certificate of ownership is surrendered to the department or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9928
  The department shall withhold the certificate of number or the transfer of registration of any vessel sold at retail to any applicant by any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9863
  (a) Except as required under subdivision (b), and except moneys collected under Section 9875, fees received pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9864
  The owner shall furnish the department notice of the wrecking or dismantling, or the destruction or abandonment of an undocumented vessel within 15 days thereof....
• California Vehicle Code Section 9865
  Any holder of a certificate of number shall notify the department within 15 days, if his address no longer conforms to the address appearing on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9866
  No number other than the number issued to an undocumented vessel or granted reciprocity pursuant to this chapter shall be painted, attached, or otherwise displayed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9867
  A fee of fifteen dollars ($15) shall be charged for a duplicate of certificate of number, certificate of ownership, or current year registration stickers.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9867.5
  Upon application for transfer of registration pursuant to Section 9917, a fee as specified in Section 9867 shall be paid to the department in addition...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9868
  Fees received pursuant to this chapter are appropriated for payment of refunds of money received or collected in the payment of fees, permits, or services...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9869
  The department shall transmit information from each initial application and each transfer application or renewal application to the county assessor in the county of residence...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9870
  A nonprofit public benefit corporation governed by the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law (Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of Division 2 of Title 1...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9871
  Upon application for original registration or transfer of registration of an undocumented vessel, the department may assign an appropriate hull identification number to such vessel...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9871.5
  Upon application for renewal of registration of an undocumented vessel, the applicant is required to furnish the hull identification number if the records of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9872
  No person shall intentionally deface, destroy, or alter the hull identification number of a vessel required to be numbered under this chapter without written authorization...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9872.1
  (a) No person shall knowingly buy, sell, offer for sale, receive, or have in his or her possession any vessel, or component part thereof, from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9872.5
  No certificate of ownership shall be issued under this chapter for any "amphibious vehicle" for which a certificate of ownership may be issued by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9873
  An undocumented vessel shall not be required to be numbered under this chapter if it is: (a) Already covered by a number in full force...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9874
  The department may suspend, cancel, or revoke the registration of a vessel, a certificate of number, sticker, certificate of ownership, or temporary certificate of number...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9875
  Except as provided in Section 40000.8, any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation of the department adopted pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9880
  (a) The department shall not renew the certificate of number of, or allow a transfer of any title to or interest in, a vessel if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9950
  Any advertisement, brochure, owner's manual, or sales manual relating to any gasoline-powered motor vehicle of a type subject to registration with a manufacturer's gross vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9951
  (a) A manufacturer of a new motor vehicle sold or leased in this state that is equipped with one or more recording devices commonly referred...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9952
  Any person who publishes, or causes to be published, or offers for sale or sells, or gives to another person, any advertisement, brochure, owner's manual,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9953
  Every manufacturer of a new motor vehicle sold in this state which, as equipped, may not be operated with tire chains shall do both of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9954
  (a) This section applies only to new vehicles sold or leased in this state on or after January 1, 2008, except as provided in subdivision...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9955
  (a) A manufacturer of a pocket bike shall affix on the pocket bike a sticker with a disclosure stating that the device is prohibited from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9975
  Every manufacturer of a motor vehicle who furnishes notification to the registered owner of the motor vehicle of any defect in the motor vehicle or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9980
  If the manufacturer of the engine of a new motor vehicle is different from the manufacturer of the vehicle, the vehicle shall be labeled as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9981
  The manufacturer of any vehicle subject to Section 9980 shall affix a prominent label to the vehicle stating that the engine in the vehicle may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9982
  This chapter applies only to new passenger vehicles and to new motortrucks with an unladen weight under 6,000 pounds, except housecars.
• California Vehicle Code Section 9990
  For purposes of this chapter, damage sustained by a motor vehicle is material under any of the following circumstances: (a) The damage required repairs having...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9991
  Every dealer shall disclose in writing to the purchaser of a new or previously unregistered motor vehicle, prior to entering into a contract for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9992
  Every dealer shall disclose in writing to the purchaser of a new or previously unregistered motor vehicle, prior to entering into a contract for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 9993
  Nothing in this chapter permits any dealer to respond to the inquiry of a purchaser in any untrue or misleading manner.
• California Vehicle Code Section 10500
  (a) Every peace officer, upon receiving a report based on reliable information that any vehicle registered under this code has been stolen, taken, or driven...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10501
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to make or file a false or fraudulent report of theft of a vehicle required to be registered...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10502
  (a) The owner or legal owner of a vehicle registered under this code which has been stolen or embezzled may notify the Department of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10503
  The Department of Justice upon receiving notice under this chapter that a vehicle has been stolen, or taken or driven in violation of Section 10851,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10504
  The department upon receiving a report of a stolen vehicle, or of a vehicle taken or driven in violation of Section 10851, shall place an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10505
  Upon the transfer of registration of a vehicle reported as stolen or embezzled, the department shall immediately notify the reporting agency of such fact.
• California Vehicle Code Section 10550
  In this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the terms and definitions set forth in Section 9840 shall apply.
• California Vehicle Code Section 10551
  Every peace officer upon receiving a report based on reliable information that any undocumented vessel numbered under this code has been stolen shall immediately after...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10551.5
  The Department of Justice upon receiving notice under this chapter that a vessel has been stolen or that a vessel reported stolen has been recovered...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10552
  It is unlawful for any person to make or file a false or fraudulent report of the theft of an undocumented vessel required to be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10553
  The owner or legal owner of a vessel numbered under this code which has been stolen or embezzled may notify a law enforcement agency of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10554
  The department upon receiving a report of a stolen or embezzled vessel shall place an appropriate notice in the electronic file system which will identify...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10650
  (a) Every operator of a towing service and every keeper of a garage or trailer park shall keep a written record of every vehicle of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10652
  Whenever any vehicle of a type subject to registration under this code has been stored in a garage, repair shop, parking lot, or trailer park...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10652.5
  (a) Whenever the name and address of the legal owner of a motor vehicle is known, or may be ascertained from the registration records in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10653
  Whenever any vehicle of a type subject to registration under this code which shows evidence of having been struck by a bullet is stored in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10654
  Every person other than the keeper of a garage renting any private building used as a private garage or space therein for the storage of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10655
  No person required to keep a record or make a report under this chapter shall wilfully fail, refuse, or neglect to comply with this chapter.
• California Vehicle Code Section 10656
  The director, deputy director, registrar, deputy registrar, investigators of the department, and members of a city police department or county sheriff's office whose primary responsibility...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10658
  (a) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the storage of any recreational vehicle owned by a mobilehome park resident and stored in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10750
  (a) No person shall intentionally deface, destroy, or alter the motor number, other distinguishing number, or identification mark of a vehicle required or employed for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10751
  (a) No person shall knowingly buy, sell, offer for sale, receive, or have in his or her possession, any vehicle, or component part thereof, from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10752
  (a) No person shall, with intent to prejudice, damage, injure, or defraud, acquire, possess, sell, or offer for sale any genuine or counterfeit manufacturer's serial...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10801
  Any person who knowingly and intentionally owns or operates a chop shop is guilty of a public offense and, upon conviction, shall be punished by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10802
  Any person who knowingly alters, counterfeits, defaces, destroys, disguises, falsifies, forges, obliterates, or removes vehicle identification numbers, with the intent to misrepresent the identity or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10803
  (a) Any person who buys with the intent to resell, disposes of, sells, or transfers, more than one motor vehicle or parts from more than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10804
  (a) Section 10803 does not apply to a motor vehicle scrap processor who, in the normal legal course of business and in good faith, processes...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10850
  The provisions of this chapter apply to vehicles upon the highways and elsewhere throughout the State.
• California Vehicle Code Section 10851
  (a) Any person who drives or takes a vehicle not his or her own, without the consent of the owner thereof, and with intent either...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10851.5
  Any person who takes binder chains, required under regulations adopted pursuant to Section 31510, having a value of four hundred dollars ($400) or less which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10852
  No person shall either individually or in association with one or more other persons, wilfully injure or tamper with any vehicle or the contents thereof...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10853
  No person shall with intent to commit any malicious mischief, injury, or other crime, climb into or upon a vehicle whether it is in motion...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10854
  Every person having the storage, care, safe-keeping, custody, or possession of any vehicle of a type subject to registration under this code who, without the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10855
  Whenever any person who has leased or rented a vehicle wilfully and intentionally fails to return the vehicle to its owner within five days after...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10900
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act."
• California Vehicle Code Section 10901
  (a) Pursuant to Section 1872.8 of the Insurance Code, proceeds from the assessment imposed thereunder shall be used to fund prevention and increased investigation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10902
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall establish a program entitled "CAL H.E.A.T." (Californians Help Eliminate Auto Theft) for the purpose of reducing the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10900
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act."
• California Vehicle Code Section 10901
  (a) Pursuant to Section 1872.8 of the Insurance Code, proceeds from the assessment imposed thereunder shall be used to fund prevention and increased investigation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10902
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall establish a program entitled "CAL H.E.A.T." (Help Eliminate Auto Theft) for the purpose of reducing the incidence...
• California Vehicle Code Section 10904
  The commissioner may develop a public education campaign to deter participation in auto insurance fraud and to encourage reporting of fraudulent claims.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11100
  (a) No person shall own or operate a driving school or give driving instruction for compensation, unless a license therefor has been secured from the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11100.1
  No person who instructs others in the operation of all-terrain vehicles shall represent that the instruction given satisfies the requirements of Sections 38503 and 38504,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11100.5
  Whenever it is necessary for a driving school or independent driving instructor to be certified by the Department of Education, or any agency thereof, in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11101
  (a) This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (1) Public schools or educational institutions in which driving instruction is part of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11102
  (a) A driving school owner, or the principal in an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization, shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Maintain an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11102.1
  If a deposit is given instead of the bond required by Section 11102: (a) The director may order the deposit returned at the expiration of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11102.5
  (a) A driving school operator shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Within three attempts, pass an examination that the department requires on traffic...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11103
  A driving school owner and an independent instructor licensed under Section 11105.5 shall maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11103.1
  An all-terrain vehicle safety training organization shall maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while being used in all-terrain vehicle safety...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11103.2
  A driving school owner who employs one or more driving instructors or other employees shall sign, under penalty of perjury, a statement in a form...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11104
  (a) Every person, in order to qualify as a driving instructor, as defined in Section 310.4, shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) On...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11104.3
  (a) An all-terrain vehicle safety instructor shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Be a person who has not been convicted of a crime...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11104.5
  Each applicant for a license as a driving school owner, driving school operator, or driving instructor shall submit an application to the department on the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11104.6
  Each applicant for a license or for renewal of a license under this chapter shall submit an application to the department on the forms prescribed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11105
  (a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each driving school owner and to each driving school operator when it is satisfied that the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11105.1
  (a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each driving school instructor and to each all-terrain vehicle safety instructor when it is satisfied that...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11105.2
  (a) The fee for a license issued to a driving school owner or to an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization shall be as follows: (1)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11105.3
  Any school owner, operator, or instructor required to be licensed under this chapter who fails to renew the license prior to the expiration of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11105.5
  The department shall issue an independent driving instructor's license to permit instruction in any city with a population of less than 50,000, which does not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11105.6
  (a) The department shall issue a license to an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization when the department is satisfied that the organization has met the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11106
  (a) Until the department is satisfied that the applicant has met the requirements under this chapter, it may issue a temporary permit to any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11107
  (a) The department may refuse to issue a license certificate under this chapter to any applicant to own or operate a school or to any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11108
  (a) Every person licensed under this chapter shall keep a record showing all of the following: (1) The name and address and license number of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11108.5
  (a) Every school owner licensed pursuant to this chapter shall notify the department within 10 days of any change in the ownership or corporate structure...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11109
  Every licensee under this chapter shall maintain all vehicles used in driver training in safe mechanical condition at all times.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11110
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if any of the following occurs: (1) The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11110.1
  Any of the causes specified in this chapter as a cause for refusal to issue a license under this chapter is cause to suspend or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11110.2
  The license issued to a school owner shall be automatically canceled upon the happening of any of the following: (a) The abandonment of the established...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11110.5
  The department may cancel any license issued under this chapter when that license has been issued in error or voluntarily surrendered to the department for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11110.7
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, on an interim basis, may refuse to issue or may suspend a license issued under this chapter when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11111
  (a) Every licensee under this chapter is entitled to notice and hearing prior to cancellation, suspension, or revocation of the license by the department, except...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11111.2
  Any owner licensed under this chapter who has closed his or her established place of business or any operator or instructor currently or previously licensed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11111.5
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this chapter, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11112
  Upon refusal of the department to issue a license, the applicant shall be entitled to demand in writing a hearing before the director or his...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11113
  (a) The director may prescribe rules and regulations for driving schools regarding the conduct of courses of driver education and driver training, including curriculum, facilities,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11113.3
  The rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section 11113 regarding the curriculum shall include, but are not limited to, the rights and duties of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11113.5
  The department shall establish rules and regulations prescribing standards for the licensing and control, as provided in this chapter, of owners, operators, and instructors and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11114
  The department may require any person licensed under this chapter to submit to a reexamination of his qualifications when there is reasonable cause to believe...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11200
  (a) The department shall license schools for traffic violators for purposes of Section 42005 and to provide traffic safety instruction to other persons who elect...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11202
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a traffic violator school owner shall meet all of the following criteria before a license may be issued...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11202.5
  (a) The department shall license traffic violator school operators. No person may act as a traffic violator school operator without a currently valid license issued...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11203
  In lieu of the bond otherwise required by paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 11202, the applicant may make a deposit pursuant to Article...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11203.5
  If the state or any of its political subdivisions suffers any loss or damage by reason of any fraudulent practice or representation or by reason...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11204
  (a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each traffic violator school owner and each traffic violator school operator licensed pursuant to this chapter....
• California Vehicle Code Section 11205
  (a) The department shall publish a traffic violator school referral list of all the approved locations of traffic violator school classes, by school name, to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11205
  (a) The department shall publish semiannually, or more often as necessary to serve the purposes of this act, a list of all traffic violator schools...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11205.1
  The fee authorized in subdivision (m) of Section 11205 shall be applicable only in those instances where a traffic violator has agreed to attend or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11205.2
  (a) As used in this chapter, court assistance program (CAP) is a public or private nonprofit agency that provides services, under contract with a court,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11205.4
  (a) By June 1, 2005, the Judicial Council shall do all of the following: (1) Collect information from each superior court regarding whether and how...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11206
  (a) The department shall license traffic violator school instructors. Except as exempted by this section, no person shall act as a traffic violator school instructor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11206.5
  Each applicant for a license as a traffic violator school owner, traffic violator school operator, or traffic violator school instructor shall submit an application to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11207
  (a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each traffic violator school instructor when it is satisfied that he or she has met the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11208
  (a) Fees for issuance by the department of a license to a traffic violator school owner shall be as follows: (1) For the original license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11209
  Any traffic violator school owner, traffic violator school operator, or traffic violator school instructor required to be licensed under this chapter who fails to renew...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11210
  Pending determination by the department that an applicant for a license fully satisfies the requirements of this chapter, the department may issue a temporary permit...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11211
  (a) The department may refuse to issue a license to any applicant under this chapter when it finds and determines that any of the following...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11212
  (a) Every owner licensed under this chapter shall keep a record at the traffic violator school's primary business location showing all of the following for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11213
  (a) Every traffic violator school owner licensed pursuant to this chapter shall notify the department within 10 days of any change in the ownership or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11214
  (a) Except as provided in this chapter, the department may audit, inspect, and monitor, all licensed traffic violator schools. (b) The department may annually audit...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11215
  The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if any of the following circumstances exist: (a) The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11215.5
  The department, after notice and hearing, may also suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter when any of the following circumstances exist: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11215.7
  Any of the causes specified in this chapter as a cause for refusal to issue a license under this chapter is cause to suspend or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11216
  Any license issued to a traffic violator school owner under this chapter shall be automatically canceled upon the happening of any of the following: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11216.2
  (a) Any license issued to the owner or operator of a traffic violator school under this chapter shall be automatically suspended for 30 days by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11216.5
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, on an interim basis, may refuse to issue or may suspend a license issued under this chapter when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11217
  (a) Every licensee under this chapter is entitled to notice and hearing prior to suspension or revocation of the license by the department, except that...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11217.5
  Any owner licensed under this chapter who has closed his or her established place of business or any operator or instructor currently or previously licensed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11218
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this chapter, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11219
  The director may prescribe rules and regulations for traffic violator schools regarding the conduct of courses of education including curriculum, facilities, and equipment. The curriculum...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11219.3
  The curriculum prescribed pursuant to Section 11219 shall include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) The rights and duties of a motorist as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11219.5
  (a) A traffic violator school shall issue a receipt for a fee collected by the traffic violator school from a person who registers for, attends,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11220
  The department may require any person licensed under this chapter to submit to a reexamination of his or her qualifications when there is reasonable cause...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11222
  The department may contract with a nongovernmental entity to administer any part of this chapter, subject to limitations in other laws regarding contracting out for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11300
  It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a vehicle verifier without first having procured a vehicle verifier's permit issued by the department,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11301
  Every vehicle verifier shall make application to the department upon the appropriate form, accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, approved as to form by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11301.5
  If a deposit is given instead of the bond required by Section 11301: (a) The Director of Motor Vehicles may order the refund of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11302
  (a) The department may issue, or for reasonable cause shown, refuse to issue, a vehicle verifier's permit to any applicant, or may, after notice and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11302.2
  (a) Every person licensed under this chapter shall report to the department every change of residence address within 10 days of the change. (b) Any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11302.5
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this chapter, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11305
  It shall be unlawful and cause of disciplinary action for the holder of a vehicle verifier's permit: (a) To submit to the department, or its...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11306
  (a) If the department issues or renews a vehicle verifier's permit requiring conditions of probation, or if the department refuses to issue a vehicle verifier's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11307
  (a) A vehicle verifier shall maintain a record of each verification made. The record shall contain all of the following: (1) The name and address...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11308
  The department may adopt rules and regulations concerning the issuance, use, and renewal of a vehicle verifier's permit, and for determining the competence of an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11309
  (a) The following fees for a vehicle verifier's permit shall be paid to the department: (1) For the application and original permit, except as provided...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11310
  Any person who holds a vehicle verifier's permit issued before the operative date of this chapter shall comply with the provisions of this chapter within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11312
  The suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a vehicle verifier's permit provided for in this chapter shall not prevent the filing of an accusation for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11400
  No person shall act as a registration service, engage in the business of soliciting or receiving any application for the registration, renewal of registration, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11401
  An applicant for a license to be a registration service shall submit an application to the department upon the appropriate form for a license and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11402
  (a) The amount of the bond required by subdivision (e) of Section 11401 for the issuance of a registration service license, or for the renewal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11403
  (a) A license to conduct a registration service, or a renewal of that license, shall not be issued to any applicant unless the applicant files...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11404
  (a) Until the department determines that the applicant meets all of the requirements of this chapter, it may issue a temporary permit to the person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11405
  The department may refuse to issue a license to, or may suspend, revoke, or cancel the license of, a person to act as a registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11406
  (a) Every registration service shall keep accurate business records containing all of the following information: (1) The name, address, and license number of the registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11406.5
  Whenever a customer fails to submit to a registration service any documents, compensation, or fees requested in writing by the registration service, the registration service...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11407
  The business records required by Section 11406 shall be maintained for at least four years and shall be open to inspection by the department during...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11408
  (a) The director may issue an order to grant an unrestricted or a restricted license to act as a registration service, or an order to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11409
  The fee for a license issued to a registration service is as follows: (a) For the original license, or an ownership change which requires a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11410
  (a) Every license issued under this chapter is valid for a period of one year from the last day of the month of issuance. Except...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11411
  If a registration service ceases operation for any reason, the owner of the service immediately shall notify the department and, upon demand by the department,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11413
  The suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a registration service license provided for in this chapter shall not prevent the filing of an accusation for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11500
  It shall be unlawful for any person to act as an automobile dismantler without first having an established place of business which meets the requirements...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11501
  Every automobile dismantler shall make application to the department upon the appropriate form for a license containing a general distinguishing number. The applicant shall submit...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11502
  The department shall have the power and duty to issue and for reasonable cause shown to refuse to issue a license. The department may refuse...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11503
  The department may refuse to issue a license to an applicant when it determines any of the following: (a) The applicant was previously the holder,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11503.1
  Any of the causes specified in this chapter as a cause to suspend or revoke the license issued to an automobile dismantler is cause to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11503.5
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, on an interim basis, may refuse to issue or may suspend a license issued under this chapter when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11504
  (a) Every applicant who applies for a license pursuant to Section 11501 shall submit an application to the department on the forms prescribed by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11505
  (a) The department, upon granting a license shall issue to the applicant a license containing the applicant's name and address and the general distinguishing number...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11506
  Except where the provisions of this code require the refusal to issue a license, the department may issue a license restricted by conditions to be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11507
  Pending the satisfaction of the department that the applicant has met the requirements under this code, it may issue a temporary permit to any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11508
  (a) Every occupational license and special plate issued under this chapter shall be valid for a period of one year from midnight of the last...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11509
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license issued to an automobile dismantler upon the determination that the person to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11509.1
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this chapter, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11509.5
  A person whose automobile dismantler's license has been revoked or whose application for a license has been denied may reapply for such license after a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11510
  The department may, pending a hearing, temporarily suspend the license and special plates issued to an automobile dismantler for a period not to exceed 30...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11511
  In any administrative action to revoke or suspend an automobile dismantler's license: (a) Proof that a stolen vehicle of a type subject to registration under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11512
  (a) Upon refusal of the department to issue a license to an automobile dismantler the applicant shall be entitled to demand in writing a hearing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11513
  (a) The department shall not issue an automobile dismantler' s license to any applicant for that license who has not an established place of business...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11514
  (a) An automobile dismantler's established place of business and such other sites or locations as may be operated and maintained by such automobile dismantler in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11515
  (a) (1) Whenever an insurance company makes a total loss settlement on a total loss salvage vehicle, the insurance company, an occupational licensee of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11515.1
  A salvage pool shall sell a vehicle only with either of the following: (a) A salvage certificate, except those vehicles described in subdivision (f) of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11515.2
  (a) (1) If an insurance company makes a total loss settlement on a nonrepairable vehicle and takes possession of that vehicle, either itself or through...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11516
  (a) Any automobile dismantler owning or controlling any vehicle of a type otherwise required to be registered under this code, may operate or move the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11517
  The department may issue a certificate of convenience to the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the estate of a deceased holder of validly outstanding...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11518
  The special plates and license provided for in this chapter shall be automatically canceled if any of the following occurs: (a) The abandonment of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11519
  (a) A vehicle that has been reported as a total loss salvage vehicle or dismantled vehicle may not be subsequently registered until there is submitted...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11520
  (a) A licensed automobile dismantler who acquired, for the purpose of dismantling, actual possession, as a transferee, of a vehicle of a type subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11521
  No person required to be licensed as an automobile dismantler under this code shall advertise the services of an automobile dismantler without indicating in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11522
  The provisions of this chapter shall not prevent the local authorities of any city, city and county or county by ordinance, within the exercise of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11540
  (a) A salvage pool shall maintain an accurate record of every vehicle it acquires and every vehicle it disposes of, and shall notify the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11541
  The department shall administer and enforce all provisions of this code pertaining to salvage pools. This section shall become operative on July 1, 1987.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11600
  It shall be unlawful for any lessor-retailer to make a retail sale of a vehicle of a type subject to registration without having first procured...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11601
  (a) Every lessor-retailer who sells at retail a vehicle of a type subject to registration shall make application to the department for a license. The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11602
  (a) The department shall prescribe and provide forms to be used for application for licenses to be issued under the terms and provisions of this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11603
  (a) The department may issue, or for reasonable cause shown, refuse to issue, a license to any applicant applying for a lessor-retailer license or branch...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11604
  The department may refuse to issue a lessor-retailer license when it makes any of the following determinations: (a) The applicant has outstanding an unsatisfied final...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11604.1
  Any cause specified in this chapter as a cause to suspend or revoke the license issued to a lessor-retailer is a cause to refuse to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11604.5
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, on an interim basis, may refuse to issue or may suspend a license issued under this chapter when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11605
  (a) Upon refusal of the department to issue a license to a lessor-retailer, the applicant shall be entitled to demand in writing a hearing before...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11606
  Except where the provisions of this code require the refusal to issue a license, the department may issue a probationary license subject to conditions to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11607
  Pending the satisfaction of the department that the applicant has met the requirements under this chapter, it may issue a temporary permit to any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11608
  The department may issue a certificate of convenience to the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the estate of a deceased holder of a valid...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11609
  Each office location operated and maintained by a lessor-retailer in conjunction with its retail sale of a vehicle or vehicles shall have posted in a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11609.5
  Every lessor-retailer who displays or offers one or more used vehicles for sale at retail shall post a notice not less than 8 inches high...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11610
  (a) If the lessor-retailer changes the location of its principal place of business or any branch office location in California, the lessor-retailer shall immediately upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11612
  (a) Before any lessor-retailer license shall be issued or renewed by the department to any applicant therefor, the applicant shall procure and file with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11613
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license issued to a lessor-retailer upon determining that the person to whom the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11613.5
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this chapter, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11614
  No lessor-retailer licensed under this chapter may do any of the following in connection with any activity for which this license is required: (a) Make...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11614.1
  No lessor-retailer licensed under this chapter may do any of the following in connection with any activity for which this license is required: (a) Use...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11615
  It shall be unlawful and a violation of this code for a lessor-retailer licensed under this chapter when selling at retail a vehicle in a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11615.5
  It is unlawful and a violation of this code for a person holding a license under this chapter to make a retail sale of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11616
  If a purchaser of a vehicle pays to the lessor-retailer an amount for the licensing or transfer of title of the vehicle, which amount is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11617
  (a) The license provided for in this chapter shall be automatically canceled upon the happening of any of the following: (1) The abandonment of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11618
  The department may, pending a hearing, temporarily suspend the license issued to a lessor-retailer for a period not to exceed 30 days, if the director...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11620
  (a) Every occupational license issued under this chapter shall be valid for a period of one year from midnight of the last day of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11700
  No person shall act as a dealer, remanufacturer, manufacturer, or transporter, or as a manufacturer branch, remanufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch, without having first...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11700.1
  A dealer who does not have an established place of business in this state but who is currently authorized to do business as, and who...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11700.2
  A dealer who obtains an autobroker's endorsement to his or her dealer's license is subject to all of the licensing, advertising, and other statutory and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11700.3
  No person may aid and abet a person in the performance of any act in violation of this chapter.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11701
  Every manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer of vehicles of a type subject to registration, or snowmobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11702
  The department may issue, or for reasonable cause shown, refuse to issue a license to any applicant applying for a manufacturer's, manufacturer's branch, remanufacturer's, remanufacturer's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11703
  The department may refuse to issue a license to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer, if it determines...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11703.1
  Any of the causes specified in this chapter as a cause to suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11703.2
  The department may refuse to issue a license to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer, when the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11703.3
  A person whose license has been revoked or whose application for a license has been denied may reapply for a license after a period of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11703.4
  The department may refuse to issue a license to a dealer when it determines that an applicant for a dealer's license has failed to effectively...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11704
  (a) Every applicant who applies for a license pursuant to Section 11701 shall submit an application to the department on the forms prescribed by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11704.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), every person who applies for a dealer's license pursuant to Section 11701 for the purpose of transacting sales...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11704.7
  Every person who applies to the department to take or retake the examination required under Section 11704.5 shall pay to the department a fee of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11705
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer, transporter, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11705.4
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer, transporter, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11706
  The department may, pending a hearing, temporarily suspend the license and special plates issued to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11707
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this article, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11708
  (a) Upon refusal of the department to issue a license and special plates to a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11709
  (a) A dealer's established place of business, and other sites or locations as may be operated and maintained by the dealer in conjunction with his...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11709.1
  Every dealer who displays or offers one or more used vehicles for sale at retail shall post a notice not less than 8 inches high...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11709.2
  Every dealer shall conspicuously display a notice, not less than eight inches high and 10 inches wide, in each sales office and sales cubicle of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11709.3
  (a) Every dealer shall clearly and conspicuously display in its showroom at its established place of business, in a place that is easily accessible to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11710
  (a) Before any dealer's or remanufacturer's license is issued or renewed by the department to any applicant therefor, the applicant shall procure and file with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11710.1
  Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 11710, the bond amount of a dealer who sells vehicles on a wholesale basis only, and who sells fewer than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11710.2
  If a deposit is given instead of the bond required by Section 11710 both of the following apply: (a) The director may order the deposit...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11711
  (a) If any person (1) shall suffer any loss or damage by reason of any fraud practiced on him or fraudulent representation made to him...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11711.3
  A person acting as a dealer, who was not licensed as a dealer as required by this article, or a person acting as a lessor-retailer,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11712
  (a) The department shall not issue a dealer's license to any applicant therefor who has not an established place of business as defined in this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11712.5
  It is unlawful and a violation of this code for a dealer issued a license pursuant to this article to sell, offer for sale, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713
  No holder of any license issued under this article shall do any of the following: (a) Make or disseminate, or cause to be made or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.1
  It is a violation of this code for the holder of a dealer' s license issued under this article to do any of the following:...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.2
  It shall be unlawful and a violation of this code for any manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed under this code to coerce...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.3
  It is unlawful and a violation of this code for any manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed under this code to do any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.4
  If a purchaser of a vehicle pays to the dealer an amount for the licensing or transfer of title of the vehicle, which amount is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.5
  (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of any license issued under this article to display for sale, offer...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.6
  (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer's license issued under this article to fail to disclose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.7
  Disclosure to a buyer that a vehicle has been remanufactured is required. Disclosure shall be accomplished by all of the following: (a) Oral notification to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.8
  It is unlawful and a violation of this code for a remanufacturer licensed under this code to fail to do any of the following: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.9
  (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of a dealer's license to knowingly display for sale or offer for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.10
  It is unlawful and a violation of this code to sell a low-speed vehicle, as defined in Section 385.5, without disclosing to the buyer the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.11
  No holder of a dealer's license shall do any of the following when conducting an auction of vehicles to the public: (a) Advertise that a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.12
  (a) The decal required by subdivision (c) of Section 1793.23 of the Civil Code to be affixed by a manufacturer to a motor vehicle, shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.14
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who purchases a vehicle that is sold through a dealer at an auction of vehicles open...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.15
  (a) (1) Prior to being issued a temporary branch license for selling new recreational vehicles, as defined in Section 18010 of the Health and Safety...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.16
  It is a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer's license issued under this article to do any of the following: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.17
  (a) Following the retail sale or lease of a motor vehicle for which the department issues two license plates, a dealer may not deliver the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.18
  (a) It is a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer's license issued under this article to advertise for sale or sell...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.19
  (a) It is unlawful and a violation of this code for the holder of any dealer's license issued under this article to do any of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.20
  A dealer that obtains a consumer credit score, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1785.15.1 of the Civil Code, from a consumer credit reporting...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.21
  (a) (1) A dealer shall not sell a used vehicle, as defined in Section 665 and subject to registration under this code, at retail to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.22
  (a) Upon mutual agreement of the parties to enter into a recreational vehicle franchise, it is unlawful and a violation of this code for a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.23
  (a) A recreational vehicle manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch licensed under this code shall not sell a new recreational vehicle in this state...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11713.25
  (a) A computer vendor shall not do any of the following: (1) Access, modify, or extract information from a confidential dealer computer record or personally...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11714
  (a) The department, upon granting a license, shall issue to the applicant a license containing the applicant's name and address and the general distinguishing number...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11715
  (a) A manufacturer, remanufacturer, distributor, or dealer owning or lawfully possessing any vehicle of a type otherwise required to be registered under this code may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11716
  A manufacturer, remanufacturer, transporter, distributor, or dealer, in the course of business, may operate or move any vehicle of a type otherwise required to be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11717
  (a) Every occupational license and special plate issued under this article shall be valid for a period of one year from midnight of the last...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11718
  Except where the provisions of this code require the refusal to issue a license, the department may issue a probationary license subject to conditions to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11719
  Pending the satisfaction of the department that the applicant has met the requirements under this article, it may issue a temporary permit to any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11720
  The department may issue a certificate of convenience to the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the estate of a deceased holder of validly outstanding...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11721
  The special plates and licenses provided for in this article shall be automatically canceled upon the happening of any of the following: (a) The abandonment...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11722
  Claims, against the surety upon a dealer's bond, of a financing agency that has loaned money to a licensee or assignee thereof shall be allowed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11723
  The board may require that fees shall be paid to the department for the issuance or renewal of a license to do business as a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11724
  A dealer, or the agent of a dealer, who has received a notice pursuant to Section 7507.6 of the Business and Professions Code, shall not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11725
  (a) No person shall transport or drive any motor vehicle from this state outside of the United States with the intent to register or sell...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11726
  Any licensee suffering pecuniary loss because of any willful failure by any other licensee to comply with any provision of Article 1 (commencing with Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11727
  The revocation or suspension of a license of a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, or representative may be limited to one or more municipalities...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11728
  As part of a compromise settlement agreement entered into pursuant to Section 11707 or 11808.5, the department may assess a monetary penalty of not more...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11729
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any dealer engaging in a consignment with an owner not licensed as a dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11730
  The consignment agreement required by Section 11729 shall contain all the following terms, phrases, conditions, and disclosures: (a) The date the agreement is executed. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11735
  (a) No dealer shall engage in brokering a retail sales transaction without first paying the fee required by subdivision (d) of Section 9262 and obtaining...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11736
  It is unlawful for any dealer licensed under this article to do any of the following when brokering a retail sale: (a) Fail to execute...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11737
  (a) A dealer who brokers a motor vehicle sale shall deposit directly into a trust account any purchase money, including purchase deposits, it receives from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11738
  The brokering agreement required by Section 11736 shall be printed in no smaller than 10-point type and shall contain not less than the following terms,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11739
  For purposes of title registration, warranties, rebates, and incentives, in a brokered retail new motor vehicle sale, the selling, franchised new car dealer, and not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11740
  The remedies and penalties provided in this code for a violation of this article are cumulative to the remedies and penalties provided by other laws.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11800
  It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a vehicle salesperson without having first procured a license or temporary permit issued by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11802
  (a) The department shall prescribe and provide forms to be used for application for licenses to be issued under this article and require of applicants,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11803
  Pending the satisfaction of the department that the applicant has met the requirements of this chapter, it may issue a temporary permit to any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11804
  The department may issue or, for reasonable cause shown, refuse to issue, a license to any applicant applying for a vehicle salesperson's license.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11806
  The department, after notice and hearing, may refuse to issue, or may suspend or revoke, a vehicle salesperson's license when it makes any of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11808
  Every hearing provided for in this article shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11808.5
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this article, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11810
  (a) The department may, pending a hearing, temporarily suspend the license issued to a vehicle salesperson for a period of not more than 30 days...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11812
  (a) Every vehicle salesperson licensed under this article shall, at the time of employment, deliver to his or her employing dealer his or her salesperson's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11814
  (a) Every original vehicle salesperson's license issued, and every vehicle salesperson's license renewed pursuant to subdivision (b), shall be valid for a period of three...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11819
  It is unlawful for any person: (a) To lend a salesperson's license to any other person or knowingly permit its use by another. (b) To...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11820
  The following fees shall be paid to the department: (a) Except as provided by Section 42231, a nonrefundable fee for the original issuance of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11822
  The vehicle salesperson's license or any permit provided in this article shall be automatically canceled upon the failure of a licensee to pay the required...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11824
  The suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a vehicle salesperson's license issued under this article does not prevent the filing of an accusation for the revocation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11900
  It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a representative on or after July 1, 1974, without having first procured a license or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11901
  The department shall prescribe and provide forms to be used for application for licenses to be issued under the terms and provisions of this chapter...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11902
  (a) The department shall issue a representative's license when it finds and determines that the applicant has furnished the required information, and that the applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11902.5
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, on an interim basis, may refuse to issue or may suspend a license issued under this chapter when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11903
  (a) If the department suspends or revokes a representative's license, the licensee shall be entitled to an appropriate hearing. Such hearing shall be conducted pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11903.5
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this article, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11904
  Every representative's license issued hereunder shall expire at midnight on the 30th day of June of each year.
• California Vehicle Code Section 11905
  Every application for the renewal of a representative's license which expires on the 30th day of June shall be made by the person to whom...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11907
  The representative's license, or any permit provided for in this chapter, shall be automatically canceled upon the failure of the licensee to file an application...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11908
  The suspension, expiration, or cancellation of the representative's license provided for in this chapter shall not prevent the filing of an accusation for revocation or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11909
  Upon issuance by the department to the licensee, the license provided in this article shall be immediately delivered to and posted in a place conspicuous...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11930
  As used in this chapter: (a) "First-stage manufacturer" with reference to a housecar means the manufacturer of the engine, chassis, and drive train of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 11931
  (a) The dealer shall give the purchaser of a new housecar a list of every express warranty, of which he has notice, that has been...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12000
  The Bureau of Automotive Repair in the Department of Consumer Affairs shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. The Bureau of Automotive Repair shall investigate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12001
  (a) Any person who sells and installs new parts in passenger cars, in the ordinary course of his business, shall provide the customer with an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12002
  No person shall knowingly manufacture, sell, or install in any vehicle, any vehicle part which, under the provisions of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12003
  Any violation of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12101
  Any transaction which is regulated by this chapter shall not be subject to the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 21625) of Chapter 9...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12102
  The following definitions apply with respect to this chapter: (a) "Private party vehicle market" means any event conducted under any of the following circumstances: (1)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12103
  (a) Every private party vehicle market operator shall maintain a record, for not less than one year, of all of the following information: (1) The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12104
  (a) Every private party vehicle market operator shall supply, to vendors, sufficient forms which are necessary to comply with Section 5900. (b) Every private party...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12110
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no towing service shall provide and no person or public entity shall accept any direct or indirect commission,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12111
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no city or city and county may impose a business license tax for revenue-raising purposes on the operation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12120
  Only a dealer, a person described in Section 286, or the registered owner of record shall sell or offer for sale a vehicle of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12121
  (a) Section 12120 does not apply to a dealer licensed pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11700) when acting under authority of the license,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12200
  The following definitions apply to this chapter: (a) "Application" means an application to the recovery corporation for the payment of an eligible claim from the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12201
  (a) Participants shall maintain a corporation under the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation Law (Part 3 (commencing with Section 7110) of Division 2 of Title 1...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12202
  (a) The recovery corporation shall have a board of directors composed of six directors, as follows: (1) One public consumer representative member appointed by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12203
  (a) The recovery corporation shall establish a consumer recovery fund for the payment of claims as provided in this chapter. The recovery corporation shall receive...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12204
  (a) A consumer may file an application with the recovery corporation for the payment of the consumer's eligible claim if a dealer or lessor-retailer against...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12205
  The recovery corporation shall develop a notice fully explaining a consumer's right to make a claim from the fund, an application form, and an explanation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12206
  (a) Within 30 days of receiving an application, the recovery corporation shall notify the applicant, in writing, that the application is complete or, if the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12207
  (a) Within 15 days of receiving a complete application, the recovery corporation shall serve a copy of the complete application and the following notice on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12208
  If the recovery corporation pays the claim, the amount of the payment shall be the total of the amount of the eligible claim, but in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12209
  If the recovery corporation denies the claim, the recovery corporation shall notify the applicant in writing of the denial, the legal and factual bases for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12210
  After the recovery corporation pays or rejects a claim, all of the following apply: (a) Immediately upon payment, the recovery corporation shall be subrogated to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12211
  If the recovery corporation has insufficient funds to pay all eligible claims, the recovery corporation shall pay eligible claims in the order that the claim...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12212
  (a) Within 30 days after the close of the fiscal year or other reasonable period established by the board of directors, the recovery corporation shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12213
  The operation of the recovery corporation shall at all times be subject to the examination and review of the Attorney General and the Attorney General's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12214
  The Attorney General or his or her representative may determine that the recovery corporation has failed or ceased to operate upon a finding that any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12215
  If the recovery corporation is dissolved or ceases to exist, or if the Attorney General or his or her representative makes a determination, pursuant to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12216
  All costs and expenses incurred by the Department of Justice in the administration of this chapter shall be paid to the Department of Justice by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12217
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to limit or restrict actions, remedies, penalties, or procedures otherwise available pursuant to any other provision of law.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12500
  (a) A person may not drive a motor vehicle upon a highway, unless the person then holds a valid driver's license issued under this code,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12501
  The following persons are not required to obtain a driver's license: (a) An officer or employee of the United States, while operating a motor vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12502
  (a) The following persons may operate a motor vehicle in this state without obtaining a driver's license under this code: (1) A nonresident over the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12503
  A nonresident over the age of 18 years whose home state or country does not require the licensing of drivers may operate a foreign vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12504
  (a) Sections 12502 and 12503 apply to any nonresident over the age of 16 years but under the age of 18 years. The maximum period...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12505
  (a) (1) For purposes of this division only and notwithstanding Section 516, residency shall be determined as a person's state of domicile. "State of domicile"...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12506
  The department may issue a temporary driver's license to any person applying for a driver's license, to any person applying for renewal of a driver's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12508
  When in the opinion of the department it would be in the interest of safety, the department may issue, in individual cases, to any applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12509
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (f) of Section 12514, the department, for good cause, may issue an instruction permit to any physically and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12511
  No person shall have in his or her possession or otherwise under his or her control more than one driver's license.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12512
  Except as provided in Sections 12513, 12514, and 12814.6, no license to drive shall be issued to a person under the age of 18 years.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12513
  (a) Upon application, successful completion of tests and compliance with Sections 17700 to 17705, inclusive, the department may issue a junior permit to any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12514
  (a) Junior permits issued pursuant to Section 12513 shall not be valid for a period exceeding that established on the original request as the approximate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12515
  (a) No person under the age of 18 years shall be employed for compensation by another for the purpose of driving a motor vehicle on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12516
  It is unlawful for any person under the age of 18 years to drive a school bus transporting pupils to or from school.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517
  (a) (1) A person may not operate a schoolbus while transporting pupils unless that person has in his or her immediate possession a valid driver's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517.1
  (a) A "schoolbus accident" means any of the following: (1) A motor vehicle accident resulting in property damage in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517.2
  (a) Applicants for an original or renewal certificate to drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517.3
  (a) (1) An applicant for an original certificate to drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, or general public paratransit vehicle shall be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517.4
  This section governs the issuance of a certificate to drive a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517.45
  (a) A person shall not operate a motor vehicle described in subdivision (k) of Section 545 while transporting school pupils at or below the 12th-grade...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12517.5
  A person who is employed as a driver of a paratransit vehicle shall not operate that vehicle unless the person meets both of the following...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12518
  The provisions of Section 12504 shall apply to any nonresident who is under the age of 18 years and who is a member of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12519
  (a) No person shall operate a farm labor vehicle unless the person has in his or her possession a driver's license for the appropriate class...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12520
  (a) No person employed as a tow truck driver, as defined in Section 2430.1, shall operate a tow truck unless that person has, in his...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12521
  An operator of a tour bus shall, at all times when operating the tour bus, do all the following: (a) Use a safety belt. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12522
  (a) Every person who operates a schoolbus or youth bus in the transportation of school pupils shall, in addition to any other requirement for a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12523
  (a) No person shall operate a youth bus without having in possession a valid driver's license of the appropriate class, endorsed for passenger transportation and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12523.5
  (a) No person shall operate a general public paratransit vehicle unless he or she has in his or her possession a valid driver' s license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12523.6
  (a) (1) On and after March 1, 1998, no person who is employed primarily as a driver of a motor vehicle that is used for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12524
  (a) No class A, class B, or class C driver's licenseholder shall operate a vehicle hauling fissile class III shipments or large quantity radioactive materials,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12525
  Mechanics or other maintenance personnel may operate vehicles requiring a schoolbus endorsement or certificates issued pursuant to Section 2512, 12517, 12519, 12523, or 12523.5 without...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12527
  In addition to satisfying all requirements specified in this code and regulations adopted pursuant to this code, an applicant for an ambulance driver certificate shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12650
  (a) Any student over 15 years of age taking a course in automobile driver training, maintained pursuant to Article 12 (commencing with Section 41900) of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12651
  The principal or staff member assigned such duty may issue or reissue a student license without cost whenever in his opinion the applicant is qualified...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12652
  A student license shall limit the operation of a motor vehicle to such times as the licensee is taking driver training in connection with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12653
  A student license may be canceled by the principal of the school or by the department whenever, in the opinion of either, the safety of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12660
  (a) The department may establish a program authorizing a driving school licensed under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 11100) of Division 5 to issue a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12661
  The department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, shall adopt regulations for the issuance of student licenses pursuant to Section 12660. The department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12800
  Every application for an original or a renewal of a driver's license shall contain all of the following information: (a) The applicant's true full name,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12800.5
  (a) (1) A license shall bear a fullface engraved picture or photograph of the licensee. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12800.7
  Upon application for an original or duplicate license the department may require the applicant to produce any identification that it determines is necessary in order...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12801
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall require an application for a driver's license to contain the applicant's social security account number...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12801.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall require an applicant for an original driver's license or identification card to submit satisfactory proof...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12801.7
  (a) The department shall not issue an original driver's license or identification card, or a renewal, duplicate, or replacement driver's license or identification card to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12801.8
  (a) In the case of a legal, nonimmigrant driver's license applicant, the department shall issue a temporary driver's license, valid for 90 days, if the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12802
  Every original application shall be signed and verified by the applicant before a person authorized to administer oaths and the applicant shall submit such evidence...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12802.5
  Before issuing a driver's license or permit to any person under 21 years of age, both of the following shall occur: (a) The department shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12803
  Upon application for an original license, except student licenses, the department shall require an examination of the applicant and shall make provision therefor before an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 15275, a person with at least a class C driver's license is exempt from the endorsement requirements of Section 15275 if all...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.5
  The class of vehicles permitted to be operated as shown on a driver's license held by a minor shall not be changed, unless the parents,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.6
  (a) A person shall not operate a transit bus transporting passengers unless that person has received from the department a certificate to operate a transit...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.7
  Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 12804.9, class C also includes any two-axle motortruck or implement of husbandry weighing 4,000 pounds or more unladen when towing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may conduct studies to develop and identify examinations and tests, to more accurately identify persons who,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.9
  (a) (1) The examination shall include all of the following: (A) A test of the applicant's knowledge and understanding of the provisions of this code...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.10
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a class C license under paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 12804.9 may drive...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.12
  (a) The department may issue a restricted class A driver' s license for the operation of any two-axle vehicle weighing 4,000 pounds or more unladen...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.14
  (a) The department may issue a restricted class A driver' s license for the operation of any two-axle vehicle weighing 4,000 pounds or more unladen...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12804.15
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 362, for purposes of this section "house car" means a vehicle described in subdivision (b) of Section 12804.10. (b) (1) Except as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12805
  The department shall not issue a driver's license to, or renew a driver's license of, any person: (a) Who is not of legal age to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12806
  The department may refuse to issue to, or renew a driver's license of, any person: (a) Who is rendered incapable of safely operating a motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12806.5
  The department may adopt regulations specifying, in addition to any cause provided by statute, the circumstances which are grounds for the suspension or revocation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12807
  The department shall not issue or renew a driver's license to any person: (a) When a license previously issued to the person under this code...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12808
  (a) The department shall, before issuing or renewing any license, check the record of the applicant for conviction of traffic violations, traffic accidents, reports filed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12808
  (a) The department shall, before issuing or renewing any license, check the record of the applicant for conviction of traffic violations and traffic accidents. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12808.1
  The department shall refuse to issue or renew any license if the applicant has been mailed a notice of delinquent parking violation relating to standing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12809
  The department may refuse to issue or renew a driver's license to any person: (a) If the department is satisfied that the applicant is not...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12810
  In determining the violation point count, the following shall apply: (a) A conviction of failure to stop in the event of an accident in violation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12810.2
  Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 12810, no violation point count shall be given for a conviction of a violation of Section 27315.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12810.3
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 12810, a violation point shall not be given for a conviction of a violation of subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12810.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no violation point shall be given for a conviction of a violation of Section 22526.
• California Vehicle Code Section 12810.5
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a person whose driving record shows a violation point count of four or more points in 12...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12811
  (a) (1) (A) When the department determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license, it shall issue to the person a driver's license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12811.1
  (a) Upon the applicant's request, the department shall issue an adhesive backed medical information card which contains a format permitting the licensee to specify blood...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12812
  If a driver with a class C or M license, who is not required to have a certificate under any provision of this code, is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12813
  (a) The department may, upon issuing a driver's license or after issuance whenever good cause appears, impose restrictions suitable to the licensee's driving ability with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12814
  (a) Application for renewal of a license shall be made at an office of the department by the person to whom the license was issued....
• California Vehicle Code Section 12814
  (a) Application for renewal of a license shall be made at an office of the department by the person to whom the license was issued....
• California Vehicle Code Section 12814.5
  (a) The director may establish a program to evaluate the traffic safety and other effects of renewing driver's licenses by mail. Pursuant to that program,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12814.6
  (a) Except as provided in Section 12814.7, a driver's license issued to a person at least 16 years of age but under 18 years of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12814.7
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisional licensing requirements of subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, of Section 12814.6, the department shall issue to a person who is at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12815
  (a) If a driver's license issued under this code is lost, destroyed or mutilated, or a new true, full name is acquired, the person to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12816
  (a) Every original driver's license expires on the fifth birthday of the applicant following the date of the application for the license. (b) Renewal of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12817
  A California driver's license held by any person who enters or is in the United States armed forces shall continue in full force and effect...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12818
  (a) Upon receipt of a request for reexamination and presentation of a legible copy of a notice of reexamination by a person issued the notice...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12818
  (a) Upon receipt of a request for reexamination and presentation of a legible copy of a notice of reexamination by a person issued the notice...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12819
  Unless the person issued the notice of reexamination requests the reexamination pursuant to Section 12818 within five working days after the department receives the notice...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12950
  (a) Every person licensed under this code shall write his or her usual signature with pen and ink in the space provided for that purpose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12950.5
  (a) The department shall require digitized signatures on each driver's license. A digitized signature is an electronic representation of a handwritten signature. (b) The department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12951
  (a) The licensee shall have the valid driver's license issued to him or her in his or her immediate possession at all times when driving...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12952
  A licensee shall display his driver's license upon request of a magistrate or judge before whom he may be brought for violation of any traffic
• California Vehicle Code Section 12953
  In any circumstances involving accidents or violations in which the engineer or any other crewmember of any train is detained by state or local police,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 12954
  Section 12951, subdivision (a) of Section 15250.5, and subdivision (a) of Section 15250.6 do not apply to a person who has been issued, but does...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13000
  (a) The department may issue an identification card to any person attesting to the true full name, correct age, and other identifying data as certified...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13000.1
  (a) The department may refuse to issue or renew an identification card to any person for any of the following reasons: (1) The department determines...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13002
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), every identification card shall expire, unless canceled earlier, on the sixth birthday of the applicant following the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13002.1
  (a) The director shall establish by January 1, 2011, a program that permits the renewal of identification cards by mail or through the department's Internet...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13003
  (a) If an identification card issued under this code is lost, destroyed, mutilated, or a new true full name is acquired, the person to whom...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13004
  It is unlawful for any person: (a) To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his possession any canceled, fictitious, fraudulently...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13004.1
  (a) No person shall manufacture or sell an identification document of a size and form substantially similar to the identification cards issued by the department....
• California Vehicle Code Section 13005
  (a) The identification card shall resemble in appearance, so far as is practicable, a driver's license issued pursuant to this code. It shall adequately describe...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13005.3
  In addition to the requirements of Section 13005, any identification card issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 13000 shall contain the words "Senior Citizen".
• California Vehicle Code Section 13005.5
  (a) An identification card issued to any person shall bear a fullface engraved picture or photograph of the person. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13006
  No public entity or employee shall be liable for any loss or injury resulting directly or indirectly from false or inaccurate information contained in identification...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13007
  Whenever any person after applying for or receiving an identification card acquires an address different from the address shown on the identification card issued to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13007.5
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this code or in the regulations adopted thereunder, including specifically the Driver's License Manual of Procedure, the department may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13008
  When used in reference to an identification card, "cancellation" means that an identification card is terminated without prejudice and must be surrendered. Cancellation of card...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13100
  When used in reference to a driver's license, "cancellation" means that a driver's license certificate is terminated without prejudice and must be surrendered. Any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13101
  When used in reference to a driver's license, "revocation" means that the person's privilege to drive a motor vehicle is terminated and a new driver's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13102
  When used in reference to a driver's license, "suspension" means that the person's privilege to drive a motor vehicle is temporarily withdrawn. The department may,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13103
  For purposes of this division, a plea of nolo contendere or a plea of guilty or judgment of guilty, whether probation is granted or not,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13105
  For the purposes of this chapter, "convicted" or "conviction" includes a finding by a judge of a juvenile court, a juvenile hearing officer, or referee...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13106
  (a) When the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle is suspended or revoked, the department shall notify the person by first-class mail,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13200
  Whenever any person licensed under this code is convicted of a violation of any provision of this code relating to the speed of vehicles or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13200.5
  Whenever any person licensed under this code is convicted of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 22348, the court may, unless this code makes...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13201
  A court may suspend, for not more than six months, the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle upon conviction of any of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13201.5
  (a) A court may suspend, for not more than 30 days, the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle upon conviction of subdivision...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13202
  (a) A court may suspend or order that the department revoke in which case the department shall revoke the privilege of any person to operate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13202.4
  (a) (1) For each conviction of a minor who commits a public offense involving a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13202.5
  (a) For each conviction of a person for an offense specified in subdivision (d), committed while the person was under the age of 21 years,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13202.6
  (a) (1) For every conviction of a person for a violation of Section 594, 594.3, or 594.4 of the Penal Code, committed while the person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13202.7
  (a) Any minor under the age of 18 years, but 13 years of age or older, who is an habitual truant within the meaning of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13202.8
  The restrictions specified in Section 13202.5 for the violations specified in that section may include, but are not limited to, the installation and maintenance of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13203
  In no event shall a court suspend the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle or as a condition of probation prohibit the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13205
  The privileges of a nonresident to operate vehicles in this State may be suspended or revoked under the provisions of this chapter in the same...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13206
  Whenever a court suspends the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle, the court shall require the person's license to be surrendered to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13207
  Whenever a court suspends the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle, the suspension shall apply to all driver's licenses held by him,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13208
  In any criminal proceeding, without regard to its disposition, wherein the defendant is charged with a violation of Division 11 (commencing with Section 21000), the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13209
  Before sentencing a person upon a conviction of a violation of Section 23152 or 23153, the court shall obtain from the department a record of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13210
  In addition to the penalties set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 245 of the Penal Code, the court may order the suspension of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13350
  (a) The department immediately shall revoke the privilege of a person to drive a motor vehicle upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13350.5
  Notwithstanding Section 13350, for the purposes of this article, conviction of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 191.5 of the Penal Code is a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13351
  (a) The department immediately shall revoke the privilege of a person to drive a motor vehicle upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13351.5
  (a) Upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the record of any court showing that a person has been convicted of a felony for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13351.8
  Upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the record of any court showing that the court has ordered the suspension of a driver's license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13351.85
  Upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of any court showing that a person has been convicted of a violation of Section 12110, the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352
  (a) The department shall immediately suspend or revoke the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle upon the receipt of an abstract of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352.1
  (a) Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13352 and except as required under Section 13352.4, upon a conviction or finding of a violation of Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352.2
  (a) If a person is required under Section 13352 to provide the department with proof of enrollment in a driving-under-the-influence program licensed pursuant to Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of Section 13352 and Sections 13367 and 23521, the department immediately shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352.4
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (h), the department shall issue a restricted driver's license to a person whose driver's license was suspended under paragraph...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352.5
  (a) The department shall issue a restricted driver's license to a person whose driver's license was suspended under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13352.6
  (a) The department shall immediately suspend the driving privilege of a person who is 18 years of age or older and is convicted of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353
  (a) If a person refuses the officer's request to submit to, or fails to complete, a chemical test or tests pursuant to Section 23612, upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.1
  (a) If a person refuses an officer's request to submit to, or fails to complete, a preliminary alcohol screening test pursuant to Section 13388, upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.1
  (a) If a person refuses an officer's request to submit to, or fails to complete, a preliminary alcohol screening test pursuant to Section 13388 or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.2
  (a) The department shall immediately suspend the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle for any one of the following reasons: (1) The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.3
  (a) An order of suspension of a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle pursuant to Section 13353.2 shall become effective 30 days after the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.4
  (a) Except as provided in Section 13353.7 or 13353.8, the driving privilege shall not be restored, and a restricted or hardship permit to operate a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.45
  The department shall, in consultation with the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, with representatives of the county alcohol program administrators, and with representatives...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.5
  (a) If a person whose driving privilege is suspended or revoked under Section 13352, former Section 13352.4, Section 13352.4, 13352.6, paragraph (1) of subdivision (g)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.7
  (a) Subject to subdivision (c), if the person whose driving privilege has been suspended under Section 13353.2 has not been convicted of, or found to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13353.8
  (a) After the department has issued an order suspending or delaying driving privileges as a result of a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 23136,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13355
  The department shall immediately suspend the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the record...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13357
  Upon the recommendation of the court the department shall suspend or revoke the privilege to operate a motor vehicle of any person who has been...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13359
  The department may suspend or revoke the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle upon any of the grounds which authorize the refusal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13360
  Upon receiving satisfactory evidence of any violation of the restrictions of a driver's license, the department may suspend or revoke the same.
• California Vehicle Code Section 13361
  The department may suspend the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the record of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13362
  The department may require the surrender to it of any driver' s license which has been issued erroneously or which contains any erroneous or false...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13363
  (a) The department may, in its discretion, except as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 15000) of Division 6, of this code, suspend or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13364
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle shall be suspended upon notification by a bank or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13365
  (a) Upon receipt of notification of a violation of subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 40508, the department shall take the following action: (1) If...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13365.2
  (a) Upon receipt of the notice required under subdivision (c) of Section 40509.5, the department shall suspend the driving privilege of the person upon whom...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13365.5
  (a) Upon receipt of a notification issued pursuant to Section 40509.1, the department shall suspend the person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle until compliance...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13366
  Whenever in this code the department is required to suspend or revoke the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle upon the conviction...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13366.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13366, whenever in this code the department is required to disqualify the commercial driving privilege of a person to operate a commercial...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13367
  For purposes of the suspension or revocation of any driver's license issued to a minor, the department shall not provide any lighter penalty than would...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13368
  The department, as a condition to the reinstatement of a suspended license or the issuance of a new license to an individual whose prior license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13369
  (a) This section applies to the following endorsements and certificates: (1) Passenger transportation vehicle. (2) Hazardous materials. (3) Schoolbus. (4) School pupil activity bus. (5)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13370
  (a) The department shall refuse to issue or shall revoke a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or youth bus driver certificate,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13371
  This section applies to schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle certificates, and a certificate for a vehicle used for the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13372
  (a) The department shall refuse to issue or renew, or shall suspend or revoke an ambulance driver certificate if any of the following apply to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13373
  The receipt of satisfactory evidence of any violation of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1100) of Subchapter 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 13 of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13374
  (a) An applicant for, or the holder of, an ambulance driver certificate who has received a notice of refusal, suspension, or revocation may submit, within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13375
  For the purposes of this article, any plea or verdict of guilty, plea of nolo contendere, or court finding of guilt in a trial without...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13376
  (a) This section applies to the following certificates: (1) Schoolbus. (2) School pupil activity bus. (3) Youth bus. (4) General public paratransit vehicle. (5) Vehicle...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13377
  (a) The department shall not issue or renew, or shall revoke, the tow truck driver certificate of an applicant or holder for any of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13378
  (a) Any applicant for, or holder of, a tow truck driver certificate who has received a notice of refusal or revocation, may submit to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13380
  (a) If a peace officer serves a notice of an order of suspension pursuant to Section 13388, or arrests any person for a violation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13382
  (a) If the chemical test results for a person who has been arrested for a violation of Section 23152 or 23153 show that the person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13384
  (a) The department shall not issue or renew a driver's license to any person unless the person consents in writing to submit to a chemical...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13385
  (a) On or after July 1, 2008, all application forms for driver's licenses or driver's license renewal notices shall include a requirement that the applicant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13386
  (a) (1) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall certify or cause to be certified ignition interlock devices required by Article 5 (commencing with Section 23575)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13388
  (a) If a peace officer lawfully detains a person under 21 years of age who is driving a motor vehicle, and the officer has reasonable...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13389
  (a) If a peace officer lawfully detains a person previously convicted of Section 23152 or 23153 who is driving a motor vehicle, while the person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13392
  Any person whose license is suspended or delayed issuance pursuant to Section 13388 shall pay to the department, in addition to any other fees required...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13550
  Whenever any person is convicted of any offense for which this code makes mandatory the revocation or suspension by the department of the privilege of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13551
  (a) Whenever the department revokes or suspends the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle, the revocation or suspension shall apply to all...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13552
  (a) The privileges of a nonresident to operate vehicles in this state may be suspended or revoked under the provisions of this chapter in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13553
  Whenever a court or the department suspends or revokes the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle and the person does not hold...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13555
  A termination of probation and dismissal of charges pursuant to Section 1203.4 or a dismissal of charges pursuant to Section 1203.4a of the Penal Code...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13556
  (a) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, no suspension of a license by the department shall be for a longer period than six months,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13557
  (a) The department shall review the determination made pursuant to Section 13353, 13353.1, or 13353.2 relating to any person who has received a notice of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13558
  (a) Any person, who has received a notice of an order of suspension or revocation of the person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13559
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14400 or 14401, within 30 days of the issuance of the notice of determination of the department sustaining an order of suspension...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13800
  The department may conduct an investigation to determine whether the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle should be suspended or revoked or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13801
  In addition to the investigation, the department may require the re-examination of the licensee, and shall give 10 days' written notice of the time and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13802
  In applying the provisions of Section 13800 the department shall give due consideration to the amount of use or mileage traveled in the operation of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13803
  (a) The department shall conduct a reexamination, including a demonstration of the person's ability to operate a motor vehicle as described in Section 12804.9, to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13950
  Whenever the department determines upon investigation or re-examination that any of the grounds for re-examination are true, or that the safety of the person investigated...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13951
  Whenever the department proposes to refuse to issue or renew a driver's license, it shall notify the applicant of such fact and give him an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13952
  The notice shall contain a statement setting forth the proposed action and the grounds therefor, and notify the person of his right to a hearing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13953
  In the alternative to the procedure under Sections 13950, 13951, and 13952 and in the event the department determines upon investigation or reexamination that the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 13954
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the department immediately shall suspend or revoke the driving privilege of a person who the department has...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14100
  (a) Whenever the department has given notice, or has taken or proposes to take action under Section 12804.15, 13353, 13353.2, 13950, 13951, 13952, or 13953,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14100.1
  Hearings granted on refusal, suspension, or revocation of a passenger transportation vehicle or hazardous materials endorsement, or farm labor vehicle certificate shall be conducted according...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14101
  A person is not entitled to a hearing in either of the following cases: (a) If the action by the department is made mandatory by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14103
  Failure to respond to a notice given under this chapter within 10 days is a waiver of the right to a hearing, and the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14104
  If the department grants a hearing as provided in this chapter, it shall fix a time and place for the hearing and shall give 10...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14104.2
  (a) Any hearing shall be conducted by the director or by a hearing officer or hearing board appointed by him or her from officers or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14104.5
  (a) Before a hearing has commenced, the department, or the hearing officer or hearing board, shall issue subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum, or both, at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14104.7
  At any hearing, the department shall consider its official records and may receive sworn testimony. At the hearing, or subsequent to the hearing with the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14105
  (a) Upon the conclusion of a hearing, the hearing officer or hearing board shall make findings and render a decision on behalf of the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14105.5
  (a) The person subject to a hearing may request a review of the decision taken under Section 14105 within 15 days of the effective date...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14106
  Following the mailing of the notice of the department's decision pursuant to Section 14105.5, the department, at its own option or upon the request of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14112
  (a) All matters in a hearing not covered by this chapter shall be governed, as far as applicable, by Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14250
  Whenever by any provision of this code the department has discretionary authority to suspend or revoke the privilege of a person to operate a motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14250.5
  The department, as a condition of probation, may require a person whose privilege to operate a motor vehicle is subject to suspension or revocation to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14251
  The department shall have authority to terminate or to modify the terms or conditions of any order of probation whenever good cause appears therefor.
• California Vehicle Code Section 14252
  The department upon receiving satisfactory evidence of a violation of any of the terms or conditions of probation imposed under this code, may withdraw the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14253
  Unless probation was imposed for a cause which is continuing, the probationer, after not less than one year, may request in writing the termination of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14400
  Nothing in this code shall be deemed to prevent a review or other action as may be permitted by the Constitution and laws of this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14401
  (a) Any action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction to review any order of the department refusing, canceling, placing on probation, suspending, or revoking...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14600
  (a) Whenever any person after applying for or receiving a driver's license moves to a new residence, or acquires a new mailing address different from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601
  (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at any time when that person's driving privilege is suspended or revoked for reckless driving in violation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601.1
  (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle when his or her driving privilege is suspended or revoked for any reason other than those listed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601.2
  (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle at any time when that person's driving privilege is suspended or revoked for a conviction of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601.3
  (a) It is unlawful for a person whose driving privilege has been suspended or revoked to accumulate a driving record history which results from driving...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601.4
  (a) It is unlawful for a person, while driving a vehicle with a license suspended or revoked pursuant to Section 14601.2 to do an act...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601.5
  (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle at any time when that person's driving privilege is suspended or revoked pursuant to Section 13353,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14601.8
  The judge may, in his or her discretion, allow any person convicted of a violation of Section 14601 or 14601.1 to serve his or her...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14602.1
  (a) Every state and local law enforcement agency, including, but not limited to, city police departments and county sheriffs' offices, shall report to the Department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14602.5
  (a) Whenever a person is convicted for driving any class M1 or M2 motor vehicle, while his or her driving privilege has been suspended or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14602.6
  (a) (1) Whenever a peace officer determines that a person was driving a vehicle while his or her driving privilege was suspended or revoked, driving...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14602.7
  (a) A magistrate presented with the affidavit of a peace officer establishing reasonable cause to believe that a vehicle, described by vehicle type and license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14602.8
  (a) (1) If a peace officer determines that a person has been convicted of a violation of Section 23140, 23152, or 23153, that the violation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14603
  No person shall operate a vehicle in violation of the provisions of a restricted license issued to him.
• California Vehicle Code Section 14604
  (a) No owner of a motor vehicle may knowingly allow another person to drive the vehicle upon a highway unless the owner determines that the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14605
  (a) No person who owns or is in control of a motor vehicle shall cause or permit another person to operate the vehicle within or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14606
  (a) No person shall employ or hire any person to drive a motor vehicle nor shall he knowingly permit or authorize the driving of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14607
  No person shall cause or knowingly permit his child, ward, or employee under the age of 18 years to drive a motor vehicle upon the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14607.4
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Driving a motor vehicle on the public streets and highways is a privilege, not a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14607.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in this section, a motor vehicle is subject to forfeiture as a nuisance if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14607.8
  Upon a first misdemeanor conviction of a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 12500 or Section 14601, 14601.1, 14601.2, 14601.3, 14601.4, or 14601.5, the court...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14608
  No person shall rent a motor vehicle to another unless: (a) The person to whom the vehicle is rented is licensed under this code or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14609
  (a) Every person renting a motor vehicle to another person shall keep a record of the registration number of the motor vehicle rented, the name...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14610
  (a) It is unlawful for any person: (1) To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his possession any canceled, revoked,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14610.1
  (a) No person shall manufacture or sell an identification document of a size and form substantially similar to the drivers' licenses issued by the department....
• California Vehicle Code Section 14610.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (1) Sell, offer for sale, distribute, or use any crib sheet or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14610.7
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to knowingly assist in obtaining a driver's license or identification card for any person whose presence in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14611
  No person shall knowingly direct the operation of a vehicle transporting fissile class III shipments or large quantity radioactive materials, as defined in Section 173.389...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14900
  (a) Upon application for an original class C or M driver's license, there shall be paid to the department a fee of twenty-four dollars ($24)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14900.1
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 15250.6 and 15255.1, upon application for the renewal of a driver's license or for a license to operate a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14900.5
  Upon application and payment of the fees for a driver's license pursuant to Section 14900, an identification card may be issued to the applicant if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14901
  Upon an application for a duplicate driver's license or for a change of name on a driver's license, there shall be paid the department a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14902
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section, subdivision (c) of Section 13002, and subdivision (c) of Section 14900, upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14904
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, before a driver's license may be issued, reissued, or returned to the licensee after a suspension or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14905
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, in lieu of the fees in Section 14904, before a driver's license may be issued, reissued, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14906
  (a) In addition to the fees required by Section 14904, the department may require payment of a fee sufficient to pay the actual costs, as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14907
  In addition to the fees required pursuant to Section 14904, there shall be paid to the department a fee of one hundred twenty dollars ($120)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14910
  (a) The department shall, with the consent of the applicant, collect the amounts which it has been notified are due pursuant to Sections 40509 and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 14911
  (a) When a notice of failure to appear or failure to pay a fine is recorded on the department records pursuant to Sections 40509 and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15000
  The Driver License Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially contained in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15001
  As used in the compact, the term "licensing authority" with reference to this State shall mean the Department of Motor Vehicles. That department shall furnish...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15002
  The compact administrator provided for in Section 15026 of this compact shall not be entitled to any additional compensation on account of his service as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15003
  As used in the compact, with reference to this State, the term "executive head" shall mean the Governor.
• California Vehicle Code Section 15020
  (a) The party states find that: (1) The safety of their streets and highways is materially affected by the degree of compliance with state laws...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15021
  As used in the compact: (a) "State" means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15022
  The licensing authority of a party state shall report each conviction of a person from another party state occurring within its jurisdiction to the licensing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15023
  (a) The licensing authority in the home state, for the purposes of suspending, revoking, or limiting the license to operate a motor vehicle, shall give...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15024
  Upon application for a license to drive, the licensing authority in a party state shall ascertain whether the applicant has ever held, or is the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15025
  Except as expressly required by provisions of this compact, nothing contained herein shall be construed to affect the right of any party state to apply...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15026
  (a) The head of the licensing authority of each party state shall be the administrator of this compact for his state. The administrators of all...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15027
  (a) This compact shall become effective as to any state in which this compact becomes effective as the law of that state. (b) Any party...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15028
  The compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of the compact shall be severable and if any phrase,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15200
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to adopt those standards required of drivers by the Federal Highway Administration of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15210
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, as used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Commercial driver's license" means a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15215
  (a) The department shall report each conviction of a person who holds a commercial driver's licence from another state occurring within this state to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15220
  Any driver of a commercial motor vehicle who has a driver's license issued by the department, and who is convicted of any offense involving the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15222
  Any driver of a commercial motor vehicle, who has a driver's license issued by the department, and who is convicted of any offense involving the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15224
  Any driver who has a driver's license or privilege suspended, revoked, or canceled by any state for any period, or who is disqualified from driving...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15226
  Any driver who is issued an out-of-service order under the federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations of the United States Department of Transportation (49 C.F.R. 392.5)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15228
  The driver shall also report the issuance of an out-of-service order described in Section 15226 to the department in the manner provided by the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15230
  Each person who applies for employment as a driver of a commercial motor vehicle shall provide the employer, at the time of the application, with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15240
  No employer shall knowingly allow, permit, require, or authorize a driver to drive a commercial motor vehicle under any of the following conditions: (a) The...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15242
  (a) A person who is self-employed as a commercial motor vehicle driver shall comply with both the requirements of this chapter pertaining to employers and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15250
  (a) (1) A person may not operate a commercial motor vehicle unless that person has in his or her immediate possession a valid commercial driver's...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15250.3
  The department may allow any employee of an organized camp, as defined in Section 18897 of the Health and Safety Code, regulated by the Public...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15250.6
  (a) A person shall not operate firefighting equipment unless that person has in his or her immediate possession a valid driver's license for the appropriate...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15250.7
  Upon application for issuance of a duplicate driver's license under subdivision (b) of Section 15250.6, there shall be paid to the department a fee of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15255.1
  (a) Except as otherwise specified in subdivisions (b) and (c), upon an application for an original commercial driver's license, there shall be paid to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15255.2
  Upon application for a duplicate commercial driver's license by a currently licensed class A or class B driver, or a class C commercial driver's license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15260
  (a) Any applicant for a commercial driver's license who does not successfully complete the air-brake component of the knowledge test, or who does not successfully...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15263
  (a) Any applicant for a commercial driver's license who successfully completes the driving-skill test in a vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped with an automatic...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15275
  (a) A person may not operate a commercial motor vehicle described in this chapter unless that person has in his or her possession a valid...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15275.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a schoolbus endorsement is valid only when the operator possesses or qualifies for a valid commercial driver's license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15278
  (a) A driver is required to obtain an endorsement issued by the department to operate any commercial motor vehicle that is any of the following:...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15300
  (a) A driver of a commercial motor vehicle may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for a period of one year if the driver is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15301
  The Department of Motor Vehicles, in conjunction with the State Fire Marshal, shall develop regulations and procedures to temporarily suspend the commercial motor vehicle license...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15302
  A driver of a commercial motor vehicle may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for the rest of his or her life if convicted of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15304
  (a) A driver may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for the rest of his or her life who uses a motor vehicle in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15306
  (a) A driver may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for a period of 60 days if the person is convicted of a serious traffic...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15308
  (a) A driver may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for a period of 120 days if the person is convicted of a serious traffic...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15309
  In addition to any other action taken under this code, no driver may operate a commercial motor vehicle for a period of 60 days if...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15311
  (a) A driver may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for a period of 90 days if the person is convicted of a first violation...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15311.1
  (a) An employer that knowingly allows or requires an employee to operate a commercial motor vehicle in violation of an out-of-service order is, upon conviction,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15312
  (a) A driver may not operate a commercial motor vehicle for the following periods: (1) Not less than 60 days if that person is convicted...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15312.1
  (a) An employer that knowingly allows or requires an employee to operate a commercial motor vehicle in violation of a federal, state, or local law...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15315
  (a) The department shall not issue a commercial driver's license to a person during a period in which the person is prohibited from operating a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15319
  The department may execute or make agreements, arrangements, or declarations to carry out this chapter.
• California Vehicle Code Section 15320
  The department shall suspend, revoke, or cancel, the privilege of any person to operate a commercial motor vehicle for the periods specified in this article...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15325
  (a) Pursuant to subpart D of Part 383 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, a driver whose driving is determined to constitute...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15500
  It is unlawful for any minor who does not possess a valid driver's license issued under this code to order, purchase or lease, attempt to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15501
  It is unlawful for any minor to present or offer to any person offering for sale or lease or to give or otherwise furnish thereto...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15600
  This division shall be known and may be cited as "Kaitlyn's Law."
• California Vehicle Code Section 15602
  This division applies to motor vehicles upon the highways and elsewhere throughout the state unless expressly provided otherwise.
• California Vehicle Code Section 15603
  The purpose of this division is to help prevent injuries to, and the death of, young children from the effects of being left alone in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15620
  (a) A parent, legal guardian, or other person responsible for a child who is 6 years of age or younger may not leave that child...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15630
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the fines collected for a violation of this division shall be allocated by the county treasurer, as follows: (a)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 15632
  (a) The department shall include information concerning the dangers of leaving children unattended in motor vehicles, including, but not limited to, the effect of solar...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16000
  (a) The driver of a motor vehicle who is in any manner involved in an accident originating from the operation of the motor vehicle on...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16000.1
  (a) For purposes of this division, a "reportable off-highway accident" means an accident which includes all of the following: (1) Occurs off the street or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16000.7
  As used in this division an "uninsured motor vehicle" is a motor vehicle for which financial responsibility as provided in Section 16021 was not in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16000.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the failure of the driver of a motor vehicle involved in an accident to prove the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16001
  If the vehicle involved was a driverless runaway vehicle and was parked with the express or implied permission of the registered owner, the registered owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16002
  (a) If the driver at the time of the accident was driving a motor vehicle owned, operated, or leased by the employer of the driver...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16003
  If any driver is physically incapable of making the report, and is not the owner of the motor vehicle involved in the accident, the owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16004
  (a) The department shall suspend the driving privilege of any person who fails, refuses, or neglects to make a report of an accident as required...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16005
  (a) All reports and supplemental reports required by this chapter including insurance information forms shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16020
  (a) All drivers and all owners of a motor vehicle shall at all times be able to establish financial responsibility pursuant to Section 16021, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16020.1
  (a) On and after January 1, 2011, Section 4000.37 does not apply to vehicle owners with a residence address in the County of Los Angeles...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16020.2
  (a) On and after January 1, 2011, Section 4000.37 does not apply to vehicle owners with a residence address in the City and County of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16020.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employer that owns a vanpool vehicle, as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 17149 of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16021
  Financial responsibility of the driver or owner is established if the driver or owner of the vehicle involved in an accident described in Section 16000...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16025
  (a) Every driver involved in the accident shall, unless rendered incapable, exchange with any other driver or property owner involved in the accident and present...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16027
  (a) Whenever proof of financial responsibility has been established under subdivision (a) of Section 16054.2 and a period of four years has elapsed following the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16028
  (a) Upon the demand of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision (b) or upon the demand of a peace officer or traffic collision investigator pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16029
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 16028 is an infraction and shall be punished as follows: (a) Upon...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16030
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who knowingly provides false evidence of financial responsibility (1) when requested by a peace officer pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16033
  No public entity or employee, agent, or any person or organization authorized under Section 4610 to endorse receipts or validate registration cards or potential registration...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16050
  In order to establish evidence of financial responsibility, every driver or employer involved in an accident and required to report the accident under Section 16000...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16050.5
  The owner of a vehicle, who has a liability insurance policy with respect to the vehicle, shall, upon request, furnish insurance information to a person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16051
  Evidence may be established by filing a report indicating that the motor vehicle involved in the accident was owned, rented, or leased by or under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16052
  Evidence may be established if the owner of the motor vehicle involved in the accident was a self-insurer. Any person in whose name more than...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16053
  (a) The department may in its discretion, upon application, issue a certificate of self-insurance when it is satisfied that the applicant in whose name more...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16054
  (a) Evidence may be established by filing with the department satisfactory documentation: (1) That the owner had an automobile liability policy, a motor vehicle liability...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16054.2
  Evidence may also be established by any of the following: (a) By depositing with the department cash in the amount specified in Section 16056. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16055
  Evidence of insurance or bond shall be submitted by the insurer or surety in conformance with the requirements of Section 16057. In the event of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16056
  (a) No policy or bond shall be effective under Section 16054 unless issued by an insurance company or surety company admitted to do business in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16056.1
  Notwithstanding the coverage limits specified in Section 16056, an automobile insurance policy described in Section 11629.71 of the Insurance Code shall be effective under Section...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16057
  Upon receipt of notice of an accident from the department, the insurance company or surety company named in the notice shall notify the department within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16058
  (a) On or before July 1, 2005, each insurer that issues private passenger automobile liability insurance policies and coverages, or private passenger automobile policies and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16058.1
  The department shall develop a method by which law enforcement officers and court personnel, on and after July 1, 2006, may electronically verify that an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16070
  (a) Whenever a driver involved in an accident described in Section 16000 fails to provide evidence of financial responsibility, as required by Section 16020, at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16071
  The department shall suspend the driving privilege of any person upon receiving notice from another state that the person's driving privilege in that state has...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16072
  (a) The suspension of the driving privilege of a person as provided in Section 16070 shall not be terminated until one year has elapsed from...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16073
  (a) The privilege of a person employed for the purpose of driving a motor vehicle for compensation whose occupation requires the use of a motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16074
  Whenever the department has taken any action or has failed to take any action under this chapter by reason of having received erroneous information, or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16075
  (a) The suspension provisions of this article shall not apply to a driver or owner until 30 days after the department sends to the driver...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16076
  (a) The department shall notify every person whose driving privilege is suspended, pursuant to Section 16070, of that person's right to apply for a restricted...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16077
  (a) The department, upon application and payment of a fifty dollar ($50) fee and a penalty fee of two hundred dollars ($200), may issue a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16078
  Any person who has paid the penalty fee prescribed in subdivision (a) of Section 16072, whether or not the person has received the license restriction...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16250
  As used in this chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 16430), "judgment" means a final judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction in this...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16251
  As used in this chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 16430), "cause of action" means any cause of action for damage to property in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16370
  The department shall suspend the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle upon receiving a certified copy of a judgment, or a certified...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16370.5
  The department shall suspend the privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle as specified in Section 116.880 of the Code of Civil Procedure....
• California Vehicle Code Section 16370.7
  Documents filed with the department pursuant to Section 16370 shall be accompanied by a fee of not to exceed twenty dollars ($20) to pay for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16371
  The suspension shall remain in effect, and no license shall be issued to the judgment debtor until the judgment debtor gives proof of financial responsibility...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16373
  (a) The clerk of a court shall, subject to subdivision (b), issue upon the request of a judgment creditor a certified copy of any judgment...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16374
  Whenever after a judgment is satisfied and proof of financial responsibility is given, another judgment is rendered against the same person for any accident occurring...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16375
  Any person whose driver's license has been suspended, or is about to be suspended or shall become subject to suspension under this chapter, may relieve...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16376
  (a) If the person against whom judgment is rendered is a nonresident and the person fails within the prescribed time to satisfy the judgment in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16377
  Every judgment shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed satisfied: (a) When fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) has been credited, upon any judgment in...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16378
  Money deposited pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 16377 shall be: (a) Deposited by the department in the special deposit fund with the State Treasurer....
• California Vehicle Code Section 16379
  (a) The department shall not suspend a license and shall restore any suspended license following nonpayment of a final judgment when the judgment debtor gives...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16380
  The trial court may order the payment of a judgment in installments only when the defendant is not insured or the insurance policy covering the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16381
  In the event that it is made to appear to the court that the judgment debtor has failed to pay any installment as permitted by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16430
  Proof of financial responsibility when required by this code means proof of financial responsibility resulting from the ownership or operation of a motor vehicle and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16431
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be given by the written certificate or certificates of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do business within the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16433
  A certificate or certificates shall certify, if the liability policy therein cited has been canceled, that the department shall be notified in writing within 10...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16434
  Proof of financial responsibility may be given by a bond. The bond shall be conditioned for the payment of the amount specified in Section 16430,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16435
  Proof of financial responsibility may be given by the deposit of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000), as provided in Section 16054.2. The department shall not accept...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16436
  Proof of financial responsibility may be given by the written certificate of a self-insurer holding a certificate of self-insurance for bodily injury and property damage...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16450
  A "motor vehicle liability policy," as used in Chapters 1 (commencing with Section 16000), 2 (commencing with Section 16250), and 4 (commencing with Section 16500),...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16451
  An owner's policy of motor vehicle liability insurance shall insure the named insured and any other person using any motor vehicle registered to the named...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16452
  An operator's policy of motor vehicle liability insurance shall insure the person named as insured therein against loss from the liability imposed on that person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16453
  Any motor vehicle liability policy may grant any lawful coverage in excess of or in addition to the coverage herein specified or contain any agreements,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16454
  Any motor vehicle liability policy need not cover any liability for injury to the assured or any liability of the assured assumed by or imposed...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16455
  The provisions of Section 16451 shall not apply to vehicles in storage if the current license plates and registration cards are surrendered to the department...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16457
  Whenever proof of financial responsibility is required to be filed pursuant to this chapter, no person of whom that proof is required shall drive any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16480
  (a) The department shall upon request, or may at its own discretion, cancel any bond or any certificate of insurance, or the department shall direct...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16482
  (a) Any person whose privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been suspended because of failure to satisfy a judgment and the judgment has been...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16483
  The department shall cancel any bond or any certificate of insurance or direct the return of any money or securities to the person entitled thereto,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16484
  Except when a nonresident minor's certificate or minor's license is canceled as required by Sections 12504 and 17704, respectively, whenever any evidence of proof of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16500
  Every owner of a vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for hire, including taxicabs, when the operation of the vehicle is not subject to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16500.5
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), the owner of the following commercial vehicles shall maintain proof of financial responsibility in the amount required by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16501
  The provisions of this chapter shall not prevent local authorities, within the reasonable exercise of the police power, from adopting rules and regulations, by ordinance...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16502
  (a) An owner shall not use, or with his or her consent permit the use of, a vehicle used in the transportation of persons or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16503
  The department shall suspend the registration of all vehicles used in the transportation of persons or property in the conduct of a business, except vehicles...
• California Vehicle Code Section 16560
  (a) Any person or corporation who operates or causes to be operated on the highways of this state any motor vehicle in the interstate or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17000
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee" includes an officer, employee, or servant, whether or not compensated, but does not include an independent contractor. (b)...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17001
  A public entity is liable for death or injury to person or property proximately caused by a negligent or wrongful act or omission in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17002
  Subject to Article 4 (commencing with Section 825) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code, a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17004
  A public employee is not liable for civil damages on account of personal injury to or death of any person or damage to property resulting...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17004.5
  Any private firm or corporation, or employee thereof, which maintains a fire department and has entered into a mutual aid agreement pursuant to Section 13855,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17004.7
  (a) The immunity provided by this section is in addition to any other immunity provided by law. The adoption of a vehicle pursuit policy by...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17150
  Every owner of a motor vehicle is liable and responsible for death or injury to person or property resulting from a negligent or wrongful act...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17150.5
  The presumptions created by Section 803 of the Family Code as to the acquisition of property by a married woman by an instrument in writing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17151
  (a) The liability of an owner, bailee of an owner, or personal representative of a decedent imposed by this chapter and not arising through the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17152
  In any action against an owner, bailee of an owner, or personal representative of a decedent on account of liability imposed by Sections 17150, 17154,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17153
  If there is recovery under this chapter against an owner, bailee of an owner, or personal representative of a decedent, the owner, bailee of an...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17154
  If the bailee of an owner with the permission, express or implied, of the owner permits another to operate the motor vehicle of the owner,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17155
  If two or more persons are injured or killed in one accident, the owner, bailee of an owner, or personal representative of a decedent may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17156
  If a motor vehicle is sold under a contract of conditional sale whereby the title to such motor vehicle remains in the vendor, such vendor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17157
  If a motor vehicle is gratuitously loaned to a school district, the bailee and not the bailor shall be deemed to be the owner within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17158
  No person riding in or occupying a vehicle owned by him and driven by another person with his permission has any right of action for...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17159
  Every person who is a personal representative of a decedent who has control or possession of a motor vehicle subject to administration for the purpose...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17200
  Where an uninsured owner or operator has obtained a judgment against or agreed to a settlement with the owner or operator of an insured motor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17201
  The payment of any settlement with an uninsured owner or operator or the payment of any final judgment for damages obtained by an uninsured owner...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17202
  This article is not intended to affect the rights granted pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 11580.2 of the Insurance Code.
• California Vehicle Code Section 17300
  (a) A person who willfully or negligently damages a street or highway, or its appurtenances, including, but not limited to, guardrails, signs, traffic signals, snow...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17301
  (a) Any person driving any vehicle, object, or contrivance over a highway or bridge is liable for all damages which the highway or bridge may...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17302
  The driver, or the owner and driver, jointly, as the case may be, are also liable for all damages that any highway or bridge sustains...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17303
  Damages under Sections 17301 and 17302 may be recovered in a civil action brought by the authorities in control of the highway or bridge.
• California Vehicle Code Section 17450
  As used in this chapter, "nonresident" means a person who is not a resident of this State at the time the accident or collision occurs.
• California Vehicle Code Section 17451
  The acceptance by a nonresident of the rights and privileges conferred upon him by this code or any operation by himself or agent of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17452
  Where the nonresident has died prior to the commencement of an action brought pursuant to this article, service of process shall be made on the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17453
  The acceptance of rights and privileges under this code or any operation of a motor vehicle anywhere within this state as specified in Section 17451...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17454
  Service of process shall be made by leaving one copy of the summons and complaint in the hands of the director or in his office...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17455
  A notice of service and a copy of the summons and complaint shall be forthwith sent by registered mail by the plaintiff or his attorney...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17456
  Proof of compliance with Section 17455 shall be made in the event of service by mail by affidavit of the plaintiff or his attorney showing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17457
  The court in which the action is pending may order such continuances as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to defend the
• California Vehicle Code Section 17458
  The director shall keep a record of all process served upon him under this article which record shall show the day and hour of service.
• California Vehicle Code Section 17459
  The acceptance by a resident of this state of a certificate of ownership or a certificate of registration of any motor vehicle or any renewal...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17460
  The acceptance or retention by a resident of this state of a driver's license issued pursuant to the provisions of this code, shall constitute the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17461
  In the event summons is served outside of this state, pursuant to Sections 17459 and 17460, it may be served and proof of service shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17462
  In the event of service outside the State, the person so served shall have 60 days in which to appear in the action in which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17463
  Notwithstanding any provisions of Section 351 of the Code of Civil Procedure to the contrary, when summons may be personally served upon a person as...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17700
  For the purposes of this chapter, all persons under 18 years of age are minors.
• California Vehicle Code Section 17701
  No application for a driver's license shall be granted by the department to any minor unless it is signed and verified by the father and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17702
  If a minor under the age of 18 years is married, the application may be signed and verified by the adult spouse of the minor...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17703
  If the person or persons required to sign and verify the application of a minor are not residents of this state, the application shall be...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17704
  If, at any time during the minority of the person who has given proof of financial responsibility, as defined in Section 16430, the proof fails,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17705
  If the person who is required to sign and verify the application of a minor gives his or her written consent, or the minor is...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17706
  (a) If the person who is required by the provisions of this code to sign and verify the application of a minor gives his written...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17707
  Any civil liability of a minor arising out of his driving a motor vehicle upon a highway during his minority is hereby imposed upon the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17708
  Any civil liability of a minor, whether licensed or not under this code, arising out of his driving a motor vehicle upon a highway with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17709
  (a) No person, or group of persons collectively, shall incur liability for a minor's negligent or wrongful act or omission under Sections 17707 and 17708...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17710
  The person signing a minor's application for a license is not liable under this chapter for a negligent or wrongful act or omission of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17711
  Any person who has signed and verified the application of a minor for a driver's license or any employer who has authorized the issuance of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17712
  (a) The department, upon receipt of satisfactory evidence of the death of the father and mother or the person or guardian who signed and verified...
• California Vehicle Code Section 17714
  In the event, in one or more actions, judgment is rendered against a defendant under this chapter based upon the negligent or wrongful act or...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20000
  The provisions of this division apply upon highways and elsewhere throughout the State, unless expressly provided otherwise.
• California Vehicle Code Section 20001
  (a) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to a person, other than himself or herself, or in the death...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20002
  (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to any property, including vehicles, shall immediately stop the vehicle at...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20003
  (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person shall also give his or her...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20004
  In the event of death of any person resulting from an accident, the driver of any vehicle involved after fulfilling the requirements of this division,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20006
  If the driver does not have his driver's license in his possession, he shall exhibit other valid evidences of identification to the occupants of a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20008
  (a) The driver of a vehicle, other than a common carrier vehicle, involved in any accident resulting in injuries to or death of any person...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20009
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol may require any driver, or the owner of a common carrier vehicle, involved in any accident of which...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20010
  Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required accident report, any occupant in the vehicle at the time of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20011
  Every coroner shall on or before the tenth day of each month report in writing to the Department of the California Highway Patrol the death...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20012
  All required accident reports, and supplemental reports, shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20013
  No such accident report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the department shall...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20014
  All required accident reports and supplemental reports and all reports made to the Department of the California Highway Patrol by any peace officer, member of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20015
  (a) No traffic or police officer shall include in any counter report of a property-damage accident, as defined in this section, any determination by the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20016
  Any peace officer, any member of an organized fire department or fire protection district, any employee of the Department of Transportation assigned to maintenance operations,...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20017
  Any peace officer who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that a pesticide has been spilled or otherwise accidentally released, shall report the spill...
• California Vehicle Code Section 20018
  Every law enforcement agency having traffic law enforcement responsibility as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 830.1 and in subdivision (a) of Section 830.2 of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21000
  Wherever in this division "department" occurs, it means the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
• California Vehicle Code Section 21001
  The provisions of this division refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon the highways, unless a different place is specifically referred to.
• California Vehicle Code Section 21050
  Every person riding or driving an animal upon a highway has all of the rights and is subject to all of the duties applicable to...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21051
  The following sections apply to trolley coaches: (a) Sections 1800, 4000, 4001, 4002, 4003, 4006, 4009, 4150, 4151, 4152, 4153, 4155, 4156, 4158, 4166, 4300...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21052
  The provisions of this code applicable to the drivers of vehicles upon the highways apply to the drivers of all vehicles while engaged in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21053
  This code, except Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 20000) of Division 10, Article 2 (commencing with Section 23152) of Chapter 12 of Division 11, and...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21054
  The provisions of this division do not apply to the duly authorized representatives of any public agency while actually engaged in performing any of the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21055
  The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle is exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 21350), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 21650), Chapter 4 (commencing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21056
  Section 21055 does not relieve the driver of a vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21057
  Every police and traffic officer is hereby expressly prohibited from using a siren or driving at an illegal speed when serving as an escort of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21058
  A physician traveling in response to an emergency call shall be exempt from the provisions of Sections 22351 and 22352 if the vehicle so used...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21059
  Sections 21211, 21650, 21660, 22502, 22504, and subdivision (h) of Section 22500 do not apply to the operation of a rubbish or garbage truck while...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21060
  Between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., Sections 21650, 21660, 22502, 22504, and subdivision (h) of Section 22500 do not apply to the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21061
  (a) In addition to any action prescribed in Division 17 (commencing with Section 40000.1), a traffic officer may issue a notice of reexamination to any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21062
  The arresting officer shall, before the end of the next working day, transmit, or cause to be transmitted, a legible copy of the notice of...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21070
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a driver who violates any provision of this division, that is punishable as an infraction, and as a result...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21100
  Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding the following matters: (a) Regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways....
• California Vehicle Code Section 21100.1
  Whenever any city or county, by ordinance or resolution, permits, restricts, or prohibits the use of public or private highways pursuant to this article, any...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21100.3
  It is unlawful for any person to disobey the traffic directions of a person appointed or authorized by a local authority to regulate traffic pursuant...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21100.4
  (a) (1) A magistrate presented with the affidavit of a peace officer or a designated local transportation officer establishing reasonable cause to believe that a...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21100.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, local authorities of any city which is on a natural island with an area in excess of 20,000 acres...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21101
  Local authorities, for those highways under their jurisdiction, may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution on the following matters: (a) Closing any highway...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21101.2
  Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution to provide that if a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21101.4
  (a) A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt rules and regulations for temporarily closing to through traffic a highway under its jurisdiction when...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21101.6
  Notwithstanding Section 21101, local authorities may not place gates or other selective devices on any street which deny or restrict the access of certain members...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21102
  Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution closing to vehicular traffic that portion of any street or highway crossing or dividing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21102.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt rules and regulations restricting vehicular or pedestrian traffic through any alley...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21103
  No ordinance or resolution enacted under Section 21101 shall be effective until signs giving notice of the local traffic laws are posted at all entrances...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21104
  No ordinance or resolution proposed to be enacted under Section 21101 or subdivision (d) of Section 21100 is effective as to any highway not under...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21105
  No rule or regulation adopted under Sections 21100 or 21101 shall be effective as to boundary line streets where portions thereof are within different jurisdictions...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21106
  (a) Local authorities, by ordinance or resolution, may establish crosswalks between intersections. (b) Local authorities may install signs at or adjacent to an intersection directing...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21107
  The provisions of this code shall not prevent any city from adopting rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution, regulating vehicular traffic on privately owned...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21107.5
  (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads as described in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21107.6
  (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads as described in such ordinance within...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21107.7
  (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads as described in the...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21107.8
  (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained offstreet parking facilities as described...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21107.9
  (a) Any city or county, or city and county, may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads...
• California Vehicle Code Section 21108
  Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regulating vehicular traffic on privately owned and maintained roads or ways within the boundari