California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 3 - Records of Department

• 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 a distinctive registration...
• 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 submitted...
• 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 using...
• 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...
• 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 subdivision (a),...
• 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 subdivision...
• 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...
• 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 at...
• 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, including,...
• 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...
• 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 convenient...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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, no...
• 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 Section...
• 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 to...
• 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 as...
• 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...
• 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 agency,...
• 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, if...
• Section 1808.23.
  (a) Section 1808.21 does not apply to any of the following:(1) A vehicle manufacturer licensed to do business in this state if the manufacturer, or its agent,...
• 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...
• 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 state,...
• 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 requests...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 1808.51.
  Notwithstanding Sections 1808.5 and 12800.5, both of the following may obtain copies of fullface engraved pictures or photographs of individuals directly from the department:(a) The Bureau...
• 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...
• Section 1808.7.
  (a) The record of the department relating to the first proceeding and conviction under Section 1803.5 in any 18-month period for completion of a traffic violator...
• 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 the...
• 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 Section...
• Section 1808.10.a.
  The record of the department relating to the first proceeding and conviction for a driver licensed with a class A license, class B license, or...
• Section 1809.
  The department may prepare and disseminate information relating to prevention of traffic accidents.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• 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 permit...
• 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 files,...
• 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 information...
• Section 1810.5.
  The Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, city attorneys and city prosecutors prosecuting misdemeanor actions under Section 41803.5 or 72193 of the Government 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 the...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 Section...
• 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 the...
• Section 1825.
  (a) The department shall conduct a quarterly random audit of applications submitted and processed pursuant to Section 5007 or 22511.55 or subdivision (b) or (c) of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018