BILL NUMBER: AB 726	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Dababneh   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

    An act to amend Section 28100 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.   An act to add Section 35400.75
to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 726, as amended, Nazarian.  Vehicles: pilot cars.
  Vehicles: Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority.  
   Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of
vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified
exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation, among other
things, an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not
exceed a length of 60 feet.  
   This bill would authorize the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority to operate articulated buses that do not
exceed a length of 82 feet on the route designated as the Orange Line
in the County of Los Angeles.  
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority.  
   Existing law requires a pilot car, which is a vehicle that escorts
oversized or special load vehicles, to display at least one red
warning flag on each side of the vehicle and requires the flags to be
a minimum of 16 square inches and visible from both the front and
rear of the vehicle.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 35400.75 is added to the 
 Vehicle Code   ,  immediately following Section
35400.7  , to read:  
   35400.75.  Notwithstanding Section 35400, the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority created pursuant to Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 130050) of Division 12 of the Public
Utilities Code may operate articulated buses that do not exceed a
length of 82 feet on the route designated as the Orange Line in the
County of Los Angeles. 
   SEC. 2.    The Legislature finds and declares that a
special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made
applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of a
large number of riders using buses operated by the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the Orange Line and the
need to reduce overcrowding on those buses.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 28100 of the Vehicle Code is
amended to read:
   28100.  A pilot car shall display at least one red warning flag on
each side of the vehicle. The flags shall be a minimum of 16 square
inches, and shall be visible from both the front and rear of the
vehicle. The flags shall be removed or covered when the vehicle is
not operating as a pilot car.