California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 2 - Powers and Duties

• Section 1650.
  The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this code relating to the department.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• 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 department.(b) Rules...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 a...
• 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 necessary...
• 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...
• Section 1653.5.
  (a) Each form prescribed by the department for use by an applicant for the issuance or renewal by the department of a driver’s license or identification...
• Section 1653.5.a.
  (a) Each form prescribed by the department for use by an applicant for the issuance or renewal by the department of a driver’s license or identification...
• 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...
• 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, including...
• 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 operation...
• Section 1656.2.
  (a) 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...
• 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) Rail transit safety.(2) Abandonment...
• 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, information...
• 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 resource...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 name and address...
• 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 owner...
• 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...
• 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 (b)...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 provisions of...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 shall...
• 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 than...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 shall...
• 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 received,...
• 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 the...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 or lessee. Except...
• 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 this...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 refund of...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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 pass...
• 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 needs...
• 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) A course provider...
• 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 operation...
• 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 10902...
• 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...
• 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 with...
• Section 1685.1.
  (a) In order to provide electronic vehicle registration services, the department may enter into an interstate carrier partnership, established under this section, with an interstate carrier...

Last modified: October 22, 2018