California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 1 - Driving Offenses

• Section 23100.
  The provisions of this chapter apply to vehicles upon the highways and elsewhere throughout the State unless expressly provided otherwise.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• Section 23103.
  (a)  A person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of...
• Section 23103.5.
  (a) If the prosecution agrees to a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a charge of a violation of Section 23103 in satisfaction of, or...
• Section 23103.5.a.
  (a) If the prosecution agrees to a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a charge of a violation of Section 23103 in satisfaction of, or...
• Section 23104.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), whenever reckless driving of a vehicle proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, the person...
• Section 23105.
  (a) A person convicted of reckless driving in violation of Section 23103 that proximately causes one or more of the injuries specified in subdivision (b) to...
• Section 23109.
  (a) A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway. As used in this section, a motor vehicle speed contest includes...
• Section 23109.1.
  (a) A person convicted of engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 23109 that proximately causes one or more...
• Section 23109.2.
  (a) (1) Whenever a peace officer determines that a person was engaged in any of the activities set forth in paragraph (2), the peace officer may immediately...
• Section 23109.5.
  (a) In any case charging a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 23109 and where the offense occurs within five years of one or more prior...
• Section 23110.
  (a) Any person who throws any substance at a vehicle or any occupant thereof on a highway is guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) Any person who with intent...
• Section 23111.
  No person in any vehicle and no pedestrian shall throw or discharge from or upon any road or highway or adjoining area, public or private,...
• Section 23112.
  (a) No person shall throw or deposit, nor shall the registered owner or the driver, if such owner is not then present in the vehicle, aid...
• Section 23112.5.
  (a) Any person who dumps, spills, or causes the release of hazardous material, as defined by Section 353, or hazardous waste, as defined by Section 25117...
• Section 23112.7.
  (a) (1) A motor vehicle used for illegal dumping of waste matter on public or private property is subject to impoundment pursuant to subdivision (c).(2) A motor vehicle...
• Section 23113.
  (a) Any person who drops, dumps, deposits, places, or throws, or causes or permits to be dropped, dumped, deposited, placed, or thrown, upon any highway or...
• Section 23114.
  (a)  Except as provided in Subpart I (commencing with Section 393.100) of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations related to hay and straw,...
• Section 23115.
  (a) No vehicle transporting garbage, swill, used cans or bottles, wastepapers, waste cardboard, ashes, refuse, trash, or rubbish, or any noisome, nauseous, or offensive matter, or...
• Section 23116.
  (a) No person driving a pickup truck or a flatbed motortruck on a highway shall transport any person in or on the back of the truck.(b) No...
• Section 23117.
  (a) No person driving a motor vehicle shall transport any animal in the back of the vehicle in a space intended for any load on the...
• Section 23118.
  (a) (1) A magistrate presented with the affidavit of a peace officer establishing reasonable cause to believe that a vehicle, described by vehicle type and license number,...
• Section 23120.
  No person shall operate a motor vehicle while wearing glasses having a temple width of one-half inch or more if any part of such temple...
• Section 23123.
  (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone unless that telephone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free listening...
• Section 23123.5.
  (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while holding and operating a handheld wireless telephone or an electronic wireless communications device unless the wireless...
• Section 23124.
  (a) This section applies to a person under the age of 18 years.(b) Notwithstanding Sections 23123 and 23123.5, a person described in subdivision (a) shall not drive...
• Section 23125.
  (a) A person may not drive a schoolbus or transit vehicle, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 99247 of the Public Utilities Code, while using...
• Section 23127.
  No person shall operate an unauthorized motor vehicle on any state, county, city, private, or district hiking or horseback riding trail or bicycle path that...
• Section 23128.
  It is unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile in the following manner:(a) On a highway except as provided in Section 38025.(b) In a careless or...
• Section 23129.
  No person shall drive a motor vehicle upon which is mounted a camper containing any passengers unless there is at least one unobstructed exit capable...
• Section 23135.
  It is unlawful for any person to operate upon a highway any vehicle which was originally manufactured as a motorized bicycle, as defined in Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018