California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 4 - Tires

• Section 27450.
  When any vehicle is equipped with any solid tire, the solid tire shall have a minimum thickness of resilient rubber as follows:(a) If the width of...
• Section 27451.
  The rubber of a solid tire shall be measured between the surface of the roadway and the nearest metal part of the base flange to...
• Section 27452.
  The required thickness of rubber shall extend evenly around the entire periphery of the tire. The entire solid tire shall be securely attached to the...
• Section 27453.
  There shall not be an average difference greater than 1/8 inch between the outside diameters of each single tire composing a dual solid rubber tire....
• Section 27454.
  A tire on a vehicle upon a highway shall not have on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat, ridge, bead, or any other protuberance...
• Section 27455.
  (a) On and after January 1, 1975, no person shall sell or offer for sale an inner tube for use in a radial tire unless, at...
• Section 27459.
  No person shall operate any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer upon any portion of a highway without tire traction devices when that portion of the...
• Section 27459.5.
  (a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, lease, install, or replace on a vehicle for use on a highway, any tire traction devices which are...
• Section 27460.
  Any passenger vehicle or motortruck having an unladen weight of 6,500 pounds or less and operated and equipped with four-wheel drive and with snow-tread tires...
• Section 27460.5.
  No person shall knowingly sell or offer or expose for sale any motor vehicle tire except a commercial vehicle tire, or any motor vehicle equipped...
• Section 27461.
  No person shall cause or permit the operation of and no driver shall knowingly operate any motor vehicle except a commercial vehicle, on any street...
• Section 27465.
  (a) No dealer or person holding a retail seller’s permit shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or install on a vehicle axle for use...
• Section 27500.
  (a) The department may adopt regulations relating to standards for pneumatic tires of a vehicle type as it determines necessary to provide for public safety.(b) In adopting...
• Section 27501.
  (a) No dealer or person holding a retail seller’s permit shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or install on a vehicle for use on...
• Section 27502.
  No dealer or person holding a retail seller’s permit shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or install on a vehicle for use on...
• Section 27503.
  (a) The commissioner, after public hearings, shall adopt regulations setting noise standards for pneumatic tires. Such standards shall be the lowest level of noise consistent with...

Last modified: October 22, 2018