DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000. - 23336.]

Division 11 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.

§§ 21000–23336 · 564 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. Obedience to and Effect of Traffic Laws §§ 21000–21300 · 109 sections

   1. ARTICLE 1. Definitions §§ 21000–21001 · 2 sections

      • § 21000 Wherever in this division “department” occurs, it means the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
      • § 21001 The provisions of this division refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon the highways, unless a different place is specifically referred to.
   2. ARTICLE 2. Effect of Traffic Laws §§ 21050–21070 · 14 sections

      • § 21050 Every person riding or driving an animal upon a highway has all of the rights and is subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this…
      • § 21051 The following sections apply to trolley coaches: (a) Sections 1800, 4000, 4001, 4002, 4003, 4006, 4009, 4150, 4151, 4152, 4153,
      • § 21052 The provisions of this code applicable to the drivers of vehicles upon the highways apply to the drivers of all vehicles while engaged in the course of…
      • § 21053 This code, except Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 20000) of Division 10, Article 2 (commencing with Section 23152) of Chapter 12 of Division 11, and…
      • § 21054 The provisions of this division do not apply to the duly authorized representatives of any public agency while actually engaged in performing any of the work…
      • § 21055 The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle is exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 21350), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 21650), Chapter 4…
      • § 21056 Section 21055 does not relieve the driver of a vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway, nor protect him…
      • § 21057 Every police and traffic officer is hereby expressly prohibited from using a siren or driving at an illegal speed when serving as an escort of any vehicle,…
      • § 21058 A physician traveling in response to an emergency call shall be exempt from the provisions of Sections 22351 and 22352 if the vehicle so used by him displays…
      • § 21059 Sections 21211, 21650, 21660, 22502, 22504, and subdivision (h) of Section 22500 do not apply to the operation of a rubbish or garbage truck while actually…
      • § 21060 Between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., Sections 21650, 21660, 22502, 22504, and subdivision (h) of Section 22500 do not apply to the operation of a…
      • § 21061 (a) In addition to any action prescribed in Division 17 (commencing with Section 40000.1), a traffic officer may issue a notice of reexamination to any person…
      • § 21062 The arresting officer shall, before the end of the next working day, transmit, or cause to be transmitted, a legible copy of the notice of reexamination to the…
      • § 21070 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a driver who violates any provision of this division, that is punishable as an infraction, and as a result of that…
   3. ARTICLE 3. Local Regulation §§ 21100–21118 · 36 sections

      • § 21100 Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding all of the following matters: (a) Regulating or prohibiting a procession…
      • § 21100.1 Whenever any city or county, by ordinance or resolution, permits, restricts, or prohibits the use of public or private highways pursuant to this article, any…
      • § 21100.3 It is unlawful for any person to disobey the traffic directions of a person appointed or authorized by a local authority to regulate traffic pursuant to…
      • § 21100.4 (a) (1) A magistrate presented with the affidavit of a peace officer or a designated local transportation officer establishing reasonable cause to believe that…
      • § 21100.5 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, local authorities of any city which is on a natural island with an area in excess of 20,000 acres and which is…
      • § 21100.6 (a) The Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano may create a three-year pilot program to regulate the transport of solid waste by commercial nonfranchise…
      • § 21101 Local authorities, for those highways under their jurisdiction, may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution, except as provided in subdivision…
      • § 21101.2 Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution to provide that if a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with…
      • § 21101.4 (a) A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt rules and regulations for temporarily closing to through traffic a highway under its jurisdiction…
      • § 21101.6 Notwithstanding Section 21101, local authorities may not place gates or other selective devices on any street which deny or restrict the access of certain…
      • § 21102 Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution closing to vehicular traffic that portion of any street or highway crossing or…
      • § 21102.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt rules and regulations restricting vehicular or pedestrian…
      • § 21103 No ordinance or resolution enacted under Section 21101 shall be effective until signs giving notice of the local traffic laws are posted at all entrances to…
      • § 21104 No ordinance or resolution proposed to be enacted under Section 21101 or subdivision (d) of Section 21100 is effective as to any highway not under the…
      • § 21105 No rule or regulation adopted under Sections 21100 or 21101 shall be effective as to boundary line streets where portions thereof are within different…
      • § 21106 (a) Local authorities, by ordinance or resolution, may establish crosswalks between intersections. (b) Local authorities may install signs at or adjacent to an…
      • § 21107 The provisions of this code shall not prevent any city from adopting rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution, regulating vehicular traffic on…
      • § 21107.5 (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads as described in the ordinance or…
      • § 21107.6 (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads as described in such ordinance within the city…
      • § 21107.7 (a) Any city or county may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads as described in the ordinance or…
      • § 21107.8 (a) (1) A city, county, or city and county may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained offstreet parking…
      • § 21107.9 (a) Any city or county, or city and county, may, by ordinance or resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and maintained roads within a…
      • § 21108 Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regulating vehicular traffic on privately owned and maintained roads or ways…
      • § 21109 (a) Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regulating vehicular and pedestrian traffic in subways, tubes, and tunnels or…
      • § 21109.5 (a) No restriction or prohibition shall be effective pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 21109 or Section 34020.5 except upon notice and hearing in the…
      • § 21110 Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution to require that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the tracks at any…
      • § 21111 Local authorities may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regulating vehicular traffic on privately owned and maintained roads or ways…
      • § 21112 Local authorities may by ordinance license and regulate the location of stands on streets and highways for use by taxicabs and other public carriers for hire…
      • § 21113 (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person shall not drive a vehicle or animal, or stop, park, or leave standing a vehicle or animal, whether…
      • § 21114 If a local authority finds that a city street or county road under its jurisdiction adjacent to an airport has been specifically designed and constructed, with…
      • § 21114.5 Notwithstanding Section 21663 or any other provision of this code, local authorities may, by ordinance, authorize the operation of electric carts by physically…
      • § 21115 (a) If a local authority finds that a highway under its jurisdiction is located adjacent to, or provides access to, a golf course and between the golf course…
      • § 21115.1 (a) Notwithstanding Section 21115, a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, establish crossing zones, for use by golf carts at any time other than…
      • § 21116 (a) No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon a roadway located on a levee, canal bank, natural watercourse bank, or pipeline right-of-way if the…
      • § 21117 (a) Local authorities may, notwithstanding Section 21101 or 21101.6, by written agreement approved by their legislative bodies, transfer among themselves the…
      • § 21118 (a) A local authority may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution to restrict the routes or streets upon which a tour bus described in…
   4. ARTICLE 4. Operation of Bicycles §§ 21200–21214.7 · 22 sections

      • § 21200 (a) (1) A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a…
      • § 21200.5 Notwithstanding Section 21200, it is unlawful for any person to ride a bicycle upon a highway while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug,…
      • § 21201 (a) A person shall not operate a bicycle on a roadway unless it is equipped with a brake that will enable the operator to make one braked wheel skid on dry,…
      • § 21201.3 (a) A bicycle or motorized bicycle used by a peace officer, as defined in Section 830.1 of, subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (i) of Section…
      • § 21201.5 (a) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, a reflex reflector or reflectorized tire of a type required on a bicycle unless it meets requirements established…
      • § 21202 (a) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time shall ride as…
      • § 21203 No person riding upon any motorcycle, motorized bicycle, bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled, or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any…
      • § 21204 (a) A person operating a bicycle upon a highway shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereto, unless the bicycle was…
      • § 21205 No person operating a bicycle shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the operator from keeping at least one hand upon the handlebars.
      • § 21206 This chapter does not prevent local authorities, by ordinance, from regulating the registration of bicycles and the parking and operation of bicycles on…
      • § 21207 (a) This chapter does not prohibit local authorities from establishing, by ordinance or resolution, bicycle lanes separated from any vehicular lanes upon…
      • § 21207.5 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 21207 and 23127 of this code, or any other law, a motorized bicycle shall not be operated on a bicycle path or trail, bikeway,…
      • § 21208 (a) Whenever a bicycle lane has been established on a roadway pursuant to Section 21207, any person operating a bicycle upon the roadway at a speed less than…
      • § 21209 (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane established on a roadway pursuant to Section 21207 except as follows: (1) To park where parking is…
      • § 21210 No person shall leave a bicycle lying on its side on any sidewalk, or shall park a bicycle on a sidewalk in any other position, so that there is not an…
      • § 21211 (a) No person may stop, stand, sit, or loiter upon any class I bikeway, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 890.4 of the Streets and Highways Code, or any…
      • § 21212 (a) A person under 18 years of age shall not operate a bicycle, a nonmotorized scooter, or a skateboard, wear in-line or roller skates, or ride upon a bicycle,…
      • § 21212.5 (a) A person shall not sell a class 3 electric bicycle to a person under 16 years of age. (b) A violation of this section is an infraction and shall be…
      • § 21213 (a) A person under 16 years of age shall not operate a class 3 electric bicycle. (b) A person shall not operate a class 3 electric bicycle, or ride upon a…
      • § 21214 (a) On or before January 1, 2026, the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, shall conduct a…
      • § 21214.5 (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Marin Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program. (b) A local authority within the County of Marin, or the…
      • § 21214.7 (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the San Diego Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program. (b) A local authority within the County of San…
   5. ARTICLE 4.5. Operation of Pedicabs §§ 21215–21215.5 · 3 sections

      • § 21215 (a) A pedicab defined in subdivision (c) of Section 467.5 shall operate subject to all of the following requirements: (1) The pedicab shall have a seating…
      • § 21215.2 (a) If alcoholic beverages are consumed on board the pedicab, a pedicab defined in subdivision (c) of Section 467.5 shall additionally operate subject to all…
      • § 21215.5 This article does not preclude a local authority from imposing more stringent operating or equipment requirements on a pedicab subject to this article.
   6. ARTICLE 5. Operation of Motorized Scooters §§ 21220–21235 · 13 sections

      • § 21220 (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (1) This state has severe traffic congestion and air pollution problems, particularly in its…
      • § 21220.5 For the purposes of this article, a motorized scooter is defined in Section 407.5.
      • § 21221 Every person operating a motorized scooter upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this…
      • § 21221.5 Notwithstanding Section 21221, it is unlawful for any person to operate a motorized scooter upon a highway while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage…
      • § 21223 (a) Every motorized scooter operated upon any highway during darkness shall be equipped with the following: (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a lamp…
      • § 21224 (a) A person operating a motorized scooter is not subject to the provisions of this code relating to financial responsibility, registration, and license plate…
      • § 21225 This article does not prevent a local authority, by ordinance, from regulating the registration of motorized scooters and the parking and operation of…
      • § 21226 (a) A person shall not sell or offer for sale a motorized scooter that produces a maximum noise level exceeding 80 dbA at a distance of 50 feet from the…
      • § 21227 (a) A motorized scooter shall comply with one of the following: (1) Operate in a manner so that the electric motor is disengaged or ceases to function when the…
      • § 21228 Any person operating a motorized scooter upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time shall ride…
      • § 21229 (a) Whenever a class II bicycle lane has been established on a roadway, any person operating a motorized scooter upon the roadway shall ride within the bicycle…
      • § 21230 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a motorized scooter may be operated on a bicycle path or trail or bikeway, unless the local authority or the…
      • § 21235 The operator of a motorized scooter shall not do any of the following: (a) Operate a motorized scooter unless it is equipped with a brake that will enable the…
   7. ARTICLE 5.5. Operation of Low-Speed Vehicles §§ 21250–21266 · 7 sections

      • § 21250 For the purposes of this article, a low-speed vehicle means a vehicle as defined in Section 385.5. A “low-speed vehicle” is also known as a “neighborhood…
      • § 21251 Except as provided in Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 1965) of Division 2.5 of the Streets and Highways Code, and Sections 4023, 21115, and 21115.1, a…
      • § 21252 A vehicle dealer, selling a low-speed vehicle, shall provide to the buyer a disclosure statement regarding the operation of the vehicle that is in compliance…
      • § 21253 A low-speed vehicle operated or parked on the roadway shall at all times meet federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards established for low-speed vehicles in…
      • § 21254 A motor vehicle that was originally designated as a low-speed vehicle and that has been modified or altered to exceed 25 miles per hour shall not qualify for…
      • § 21260 (a) Except as provided in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b), or in an area where a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan has been adopted pursuant…
      • § 21266 (a) Notwithstanding Section 21260, local authorities, by ordinance or resolution, may restrict or prohibit the use of low-speed vehicles. (b) Notwithstanding…
   8. ARTICLE 6. Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices §§ 21280–21282 · 5 sections

      • § 21280 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) This state has severe traffic congestion and air pollution problems, particularly in its…
      • § 21280.5 For purposes of this article, an electric personal assistive mobility device is defined in Section 313.
      • § 21281 Every electric personal assistive mobility device, or EPAMD, shall be equipped with the following safety mechanisms: (a) Front, rear, and side reflectors. (b)…
      • § 21281.5 (a) A person shall not operate an EPAMD on a sidewalk, bike path, pathway, trail, bike lane, street, road, or highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and…
      • § 21282 Notwithstanding Section 21966, for the purpose of assuring the safety of pedestrians, including seniors, persons with disabilities, and others using sidewalks,…
   9. ARTICLE 7. Operation of Electrically Motorized Boards §§ 21290–21296 · 6 sections

      • § 21290 (a) For purposes of this article, “bikeway” is defined in Section 890.4 of the Streets and Highways Code. (b) For purposes of this article, an “electrically…
      • § 21291 An electrically motorized board shall be operated only by a person who is 16 years of age or older.
      • § 21292 A person shall not operate an electrically motorized board upon a highway, bikeway, or any other public bicycle path, sidewalk, or trail, unless that person is…
      • § 21293 (a) Every electrically motorized board operated upon a highway during darkness shall be equipped with all of the following: (1) Except as provided in…
      • § 21294 (a) An electrically motorized board shall only operate upon a highway designated with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less, unless the electrically…
      • § 21296 (a) It is unlawful for a person to operate an electrically motorized board upon a highway while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug, or…
   10. ARTICLE 8. Horseback Riding § 21300 · 1 section

       • § 21300 (a) A person under 18 years of age shall not ride an equestrian animal upon a paved highway unless that person is wearing a properly fitted and fastened helmet…
2. CHAPTER 2. Traffic Signs, Signals, and Markings §§ 21350–21468 · 63 sections

   1. ARTICLE 1. Erection and Maintenance §§ 21350–21376 · 31 sections

      • § 21350 The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, appropriate…
      • § 21351 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such traffic signs, signals and other traffic…
      • § 21351.3 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, speed limit, speed advisory, and mileage…
      • § 21351.5 The Department of Transportation or local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may erect stop signs to require the…
      • § 21351.7 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, appropriate signs along city streets or…
      • § 21352 The Department of Transportation may erect stop signs at any entrance to any state highway and whenever the department determines that it is necessary for the…
      • § 21353 No local authority, except by permission of the Department of Transportation, shall erect or maintain any stop sign or traffic control signal in such manner as…
      • § 21354 Subject to the provisions of Section 21353, a local authority may designate any highway under its jurisdiction as a through highway and may erect stop signs at…
      • § 21355 (a) Stop signs erected under Section 21350, 21351, 21352, or 21354 may be erected either at or near the entrance to an intersection. The Department of…
      • § 21356 The Department of Transportation or local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may erect yield right-of-way signs at the…
      • § 21356.5 Local authorities may place signs, mirrors, or other visual or audible devices at exits from alleys that are under their jurisdiction to warn drivers to watch…
      • § 21357 Speed restriction signs may, but need not, be erected upon any highway other than a state highway at the entrance thereof into a business or residence district…
      • § 21358 Where one or more business and residence districts are contiguous, or where, as authorized by this code, speed is to be restricted between two districts,…
      • § 21359 Whenever the Department of Transportation or a local authority as authorized by this code determines and declares a speed limit different from the limit…
      • § 21360 Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may, within the reasonable exercise of their police power and subject to Section 21353, place and maintain…
      • § 21361 (a) When the outermost boundaries of two or more intersections are confined within a distance of 200 feet, the Department of Transportation in respect to state…
      • § 21362 Railroad warning approach signs shall be erected by local authorities upon the right-hand side of each approach of every highway under their jurisdiction to a…
      • § 21362.5 (a) (1) Railroad and rail transit grade crossings may be equipped with an automated rail crossing enforcement system if the system is identified by signs…
      • § 21363 Detour signs shall be erected at the nearest points of detour from that portion of a highway, or from any bridge, which is closed to traffic while under…
      • § 21364 The Department of Transportation may authorize an owner of land adjacent to a state highway to erect and maintain signs to indicate the existence of those…
      • § 21365 The Department of Transportation, with respect to state highways in open range country, and the board of supervisors of each county, with respect to county…
      • § 21366 At each signal-controlled intersection on streets and highways, there shall be a street name sign clearly visible to traffic approaching from all directions.…
      • § 21367 (a) As provided in Section 125 of the Streets and Highways Code and in Section 21100 of this code, respectively, the duly authorized representative of the…
      • § 21368 Whenever a marked pedestrian crosswalk has been established in a roadway contiguous to a school building or the grounds thereof, it shall be painted or marked…
      • § 21369 All speed restriction signs in place on January 1, 1960, are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall establish the applicable prima facie speed limit unless…
      • § 21370 The Department of Transportation, or its duly authorized representatives with the approval of the department, while engaged in the construction of a state…
      • § 21372 The Department of Transportation and local authorities shall, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, establish and promulgate warrants…
      • § 21373 The governing board of any school district may request the appropriate city, county, city and county or state agency to install traffic control devices in…
      • § 21374 A local authority may mark or paint the surface of any street or highway under its jurisdiction, or of any state highway, with the approval of the Department…
      • § 21375 (a) The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, directional signs on freeways indicating the location of…
      • § 21376 The Department of Transportation shall place and maintain on each major state highway entering the state within 500 feet after the state line, a sign that…
   2. ARTICLE 2. Official Traffic Control Devices §§ 21400–21401 · 2 sections

      • § 21400 (a) The Department of Transportation shall, after consultation with local agencies and public hearings, adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform…
      • § 21401 (a) Except as provided in Section 21374, only those official traffic control devices that conform to the uniform standards and specifications promulgated by…
   3. ARTICLE 3. Offenses Relating to Traffic Devices §§ 21450–21468 · 30 sections

      • § 21450 Whenever traffic is controlled by official traffic control signals showing different colored lights, color-lighted arrows, or color-lighted bicycle symbols,…
      • § 21450.5 (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions: (1) “Accessible pedestrian signal” or “APS” means an integrated device that…
      • § 21451 (a) A driver facing a circular green signal shall proceed straight through or turn right or left or make a U-turn unless a sign prohibits a U-turn. Any driver,…
      • § 21452 (a) A driver facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is, by that signal, warned that the related green movement is ending or that a red…
      • § 21453 (a) A driver facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the…
      • § 21454 When lane use control signals are placed over individual lanes, those signals shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles as follows: (a) Green indication:…
      • § 21455 If an official traffic control signal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, including a freeway or highway on ramp, this article…
      • § 21455.5 (a) The limit line, the intersection, or a place designated in Section 21455, where a driver is required to stop, may be equipped with an automated traffic…
      • § 21455.6 (a) A city council or county board of supervisors shall conduct a public hearing on the proposed use of an automated enforcement system authorized under…
      • § 21455.7 (a) At an intersection at which there is an automated traffic enforcement system in operation pursuant to Section 21455.5 or 21455.9, the minimum yellow light…
      • § 21455.9 (a) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Automated traffic enforcement system” or “system” means a fixed system that utilizes…
      • § 21456 (a) If a pedestrian control signal showing the words “WALK” or “WAIT” or “DON’T WALK” or other approved symbol is in place, the signal shall indicate as…
      • § 21456.1 Whenever an official traffic control signal exhibiting an approved “Walking Person” symbol, an approved “Upraised Hand” symbol, or the words “WALK” or “WAIT”…
      • § 21456.2 (a) Unless otherwise directed by a bicycle signal as provided in Section 21456.3, or as otherwise provided in subdivision (a) of Section 21456, an operator of…
      • § 21456.3 (a) An operator of a bicycle facing a green bicycle signal shall proceed straight through or turn right or left or make a U-turn unless a sign prohibits a…
      • § 21457 Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow light is used in a traffic signal or with a traffic sign, it shall require obedience by drivers as follows: (a)…
      • § 21458 (a) Whenever local authorities enact local parking regulations and indicate them by the use of paint upon curbs, the following colors only shall be used, and…
      • § 21459 (a) The Department of Transportation in respect to state highways and a local authority with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, is authorized to place…
      • § 21460 (a) If double parallel solid yellow lines are in place, a person driving a vehicle shall not drive to the left of the lines, except as permitted in this…
      • § 21460.5 (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may designate a two-way left-turn lane on a highway. A two-way…
      • § 21461 (a) It is unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to fail to obey a sign or signal defined as regulatory in the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,…
      • § 21461.5 (a) It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to fail to obey any sign or signal erected or maintained to indicate or carry out the provisions of this code or…
      • § 21462 (a) The driver of a vehicle, the person in charge of an animal, a pedestrian, and the motorist of a streetcar shall obey the instructions of an official…
      • § 21463 No person shall operate a manually or traffic actuated signal other than for the purpose of permitting a pedestrian or vehicle to cross a roadway.
      • § 21464 (a) A person, without lawful authority, may not deface, injure, attach any material or substance to, knock down, or remove, nor may a person shoot at, any…
      • § 21465 No person shall place, maintain, or display upon, or in view of, any highway any unofficial sign, signal, device, or marking, or any sign, signal, device, or…
      • § 21466 No person shall place or maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any light in such position as to prevent the driver of a vehicle from readily…
      • § 21466.5 No person shall place or maintain or display, upon or in view of any highway, any light of any color of such brilliance as to impair the vision of drivers upon…
      • § 21467 Every prohibited sign, signal, device, or light is a public nuisance, and the Department of Transportation, members of the California Highway Patrol, and local…
      • § 21468 This division does not modify or limit the authority of the Public Utilities Commission to erect or maintain, or cause to be erected and maintained, signs,…
3. CHAPTER 3. Driving, Overtaking, and Passing §§ 21650–21761 · 59 sections

   1. ARTICLE 1. Driving on Right Side §§ 21650–21664 · 23 sections

      • § 21650 Upon all highways, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows: (a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding…
      • § 21650.1 A bicycle operated on a roadway, or the shoulder of a highway, shall be operated in the same direction as vehicles are required to be driven upon the roadway.
      • § 21651 (a) Whenever a highway has been divided into two or more roadways by means of intermittent barriers or by means of a dividing section of not less than two feet…
      • § 21652 When any service road has been constructed on or along any public highway and the main thoroughfare of the highway has been separated from the service road, it…
      • § 21654 (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same…
      • § 21655 (a) Whenever the Department of Transportation or local authorities with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions determines upon the basis of…
      • § 21655.1 (a) A person shall not operate a motor vehicle on a portion of a highway that has been designated as a transit-only traffic lane except in compliance with the…
      • § 21655.5 (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may authorize or permit exclusive or…
      • § 21655.6 (a) Whenever the Department of Transportation authorizes or permits exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles on any highway…
      • § 21655.7 A local authority, with respect to any highway under its jurisdiction, may authorize or permit a portion of the highway to be used exclusively for a public…
      • § 21655.8 (a) Except as required under subdivision (b), when exclusive or preferential use lanes for high-occupancy vehicles are established pursuant to Section 21655.5…
      • § 21655.9 (a) (1) Whenever the Department of Transportation or a local authority authorizes or permits exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes or highway access…
      • § 21655.10 (a) The department and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may authorize or temporarily permit exclusive or…
      • § 21656 On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at a…
      • § 21657 The authorities in charge of any highway may designate any highway, roadway, part of a roadway, or specific lanes upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in…
      • § 21658 Whenever any roadway has been divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for traffic in one direction, the following rules apply: (a) A vehicle shall be…
      • § 21658.1 (a) For the purposes of this section, “lane splitting” means driving a motorcycle, as defined in Section 400, that has two wheels in contact with the ground,…
      • § 21659 Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes a vehicle shall not be driven in the extreme left lane at any time, nor in the center lane except when…
      • § 21660 Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and, except when a roadway has been divided into traffic lanes, each…
      • § 21661 Whenever upon any grade the width of the roadway is insufficient to permit the passing of vehicles approaching from opposite directions at the point of…
      • § 21662 The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or upon mountain highways shall hold the motor vehicle under control at all times and shall…
      • § 21663 Except as expressly permitted pursuant to this code, including Sections 21100.4 and 21114.5, no person shall operate or move a motor vehicle upon a sidewalk…
      • § 21664 It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to enter or exit any freeway which has full control of access and no crossings at grade, except upon a designated…
   2. ARTICLE 2. Additional Driving Rules §§ 21700–21721 · 24 sections

      • § 21700 No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat such number of persons as to obstruct the view of the driver to the…
      • § 21700.5 No person shall knowingly drive a bus within the City of San Diego which is transporting any public or private school pupil who is enrolled in kindergarten or…
      • § 21701 No person shall wilfully interfere with the driver of a vehicle or with the mechanism thereof in such manner as to affect the driver’s control of the vehicle.…
      • § 21702 (a) No person shall drive upon any highway any vehicle designed or used for transporting persons for compensation for more than 10 consecutive hours nor for…
      • § 21703 The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicle and…
      • § 21704 (a) The driver of any motor vehicle subject to the speed restriction of Section 22406 that is operated outside of a business or residence district, shall keep…
      • § 21705 Motor vehicles being driven outside of a business or residence district in a caravan or motorcade, whether or not towing other vehicles, shall be so operated…
      • § 21706 No motor vehicle, except an authorized emergency vehicle, shall follow within 300 feet of any authorized emergency vehicle being operated under the provisions…
      • § 21706.5 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Emergency incident zone” means an area on a freeway that is within 500…
      • § 21707 No motor vehicle, except an authorized emergency vehicle or a vehicle of a duly authorized member of a fire or police department, shall be operated within the…
      • § 21708 No person shall drive or propel any vehicle or conveyance upon, over, or across, or in any manner damage any fire hose or chemical hose used by or under the…
      • § 21709 No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety zone.
      • § 21710 The driver of a motor vehicle when traveling on down grade upon any highway shall not coast with the gears of such vehicle in neutral.
      • § 21711 No person shall operate a train of vehicles when any vehicle being towed whips or swerves from side to side or fails to follow substantially in the path of the…
      • § 21712 (a) A person driving a motor vehicle shall not knowingly permit a person to ride on a vehicle or upon a portion of a vehicle that is not designed or intended…
      • § 21713 No person shall operate on any highway any privately owned armored car unless a license to operate such car has first been obtained from the commissioner in…
      • § 21714 The driver of a vehicle described in subdivision (f) of Section 27803 shall not operate the vehicle in either of the following areas: (a) On, or immediately…
      • § 21715 (a) No passenger vehicle regardless of weight, or any other motor vehicle under 4,000 pounds unladen, shall draw or tow more than one vehicle in combination,…
      • § 21716 Except as provided in Section 21115.1 and Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1950) of Division 2.5 of the Streets and Highways Code, no person shall operate a…
      • § 21717 Whenever it is necessary for the driver of a motor vehicle to cross a bicycle lane that is adjacent to his lane of travel to make a turn, the driver shall…
      • § 21718 (a) No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle upon a freeway which has full control of access and no crossings at grade except: (1) When…
      • § 21719 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in the event of an emergency occurring on a roadway that requires the rapid removal of impediments to traffic or the…
      • § 21720 A pocket bike shall not be operated on a sidewalk, roadway, or any other part of a highway, or on a bikeway, bicycle path or trail, equestrian trail, hiking or…
      • § 21721 (a) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may cause the removal and seizure of a…
   3. ARTICLE 3. Overtaking and Passing §§ 21750–21761 · 12 sections

      • § 21750 (a) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass to the left at a safe distance without interfering with the…
      • § 21751 On a two-lane highway, no vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the…
      • § 21752 No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the roadway under the following conditions: (a) When approaching or upon the crest of a grade or a curve in the…
      • § 21753 Except when passing on the right is permitted, the driver of an overtaken vehicle shall safely move to the right-hand side of the highway in favor of the…
      • § 21754 The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass to the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions: (a) When the vehicle overtaken is making or…
      • § 21755 (a) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting that movement in safety. In no event shall…
      • § 21756 (a) The driver of a vehicle overtaking any interurban electric or streetcar stopped or about to stop for the purpose of receiving or discharging any passenger…
      • § 21757 The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass upon the left, nor shall any driver of a vehicle drive upon the left side of, any interurban electric or…
      • § 21758 In the event any vehicle is being operated on any grade outside of a business or residence district at a speed of less than 20 miles per hour, no person…
      • § 21759 The driver of any vehicle approaching any horse drawn vehicle, any ridden animal, or any livestock shall exercise proper control of his vehicle and shall…
      • § 21760 (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Three Feet for Safety Act. (b) The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking and passing a bicycle that is…
      • § 21761 (a) The driver of a vehicle on a public street or highway approaching and overtaking a stopped waste service vehicle shall make a lane change into an available…
4. CHAPTER 4. Right-of-Way §§ 21800–21809 · 9 sections

   • § 21800 (a) The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from a different…
   • § 21801 (a) The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left or to complete a U-turn upon a highway, or to turn left into public or private property, or an alley,…
   • § 21802 (a) The driver of any vehicle approaching a stop sign at the entrance to, or within, an intersection shall stop as required by Section 22450. The driver shall…
   • § 21803 (a) The driver of any vehicle approaching any intersection which is controlled by a yield right-of-way sign shall, upon arriving at the sign, yield the…
   • § 21804 (a) The driver of any vehicle about to enter or cross a highway from any public or private property, or from an alley, shall yield the right-of-way to all…
   • § 21805 (a) The Department of Transportation, and local authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, may designate any intersection of a highway as a…
   • § 21806 Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle which is sounding a siren and which has at least one lighted lamp exhibiting red light that is…
   • § 21807 The provisions of Section 21806 shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the…
   • § 21809 (a) A person driving a vehicle on a highway approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle that is displaying emergency lights, a stationary tow truck…
5. CHAPTER 5. Pedestrians’ Rights and Duties §§ 21949–21971 · 24 sections

   • § 21949 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is the policy of the State of California that safe and convenient pedestrian travel and access, whether…
   • § 21949.5 (a) On or before January 1, 2028, the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the…
   • § 21950 (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at…
   • § 21950.5 (a) An existing marked crosswalk may not be removed unless notice and opportunity to be heard is provided to the public not less than 30 days prior to the…
   • § 21951 Whenever any vehicle has stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway the driver…
   • § 21952 The driver of any motor vehicle, prior to driving over or upon any sidewalk, shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian approaching thereon.
   • § 21953 (a) Whenever any pedestrian crosses a roadway other than by means of a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing, if a pedestrian tunnel or overhead…
   • § 21954 (a) Every pedestrian upon a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the…
   • § 21955 (a) Between adjacent intersections controlled by traffic control signal devices or by police officers, pedestrians shall not cross the roadway at any place…
   • § 21956 (a) A pedestrian shall not walk upon a roadway outside of a business or residence district otherwise than close to the pedestrian’s left-hand edge of the…
   • § 21957 No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.
   • § 21959 It is unlawful for any person to ski or toboggan on or across any roadway in such a manner as to interfere with the movement of vehicles thereon. A person on…
   • § 21960 (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities, by order, ordinance, or resolution, with respect to freeways, expressways, or designated portions…
   • § 21961 (a) This chapter does not prevent local authorities from adopting ordinances prohibiting pedestrians from crossing roadways at other than crosswalks. (b) (1) A…
   • § 21962 Any peace officer having reasonable cause to believe that any pedestrian is stopped or standing on any bridge or overpass for the purpose of violating Section…
   • § 21963 A totally or partially blind pedestrian who is carrying a predominantly white cane (with or without a red tip), or using a guide dog, shall have the…
   • § 21964 No person, other than those totally or partially blind, shall carry or use on any highway or in any public building, public facility, or other public place, a…
   • § 21965 As used in Sections 21963 and 21964, “blind,” “totally blind,” and “partially blind,” mean having central visual acuity not to exceed 20/200 in the better eye,…
   • § 21966 (a) A pedestrian shall not proceed along a bicycle path or lane where there is an adjacent adequate pedestrian facility. (b) (1) A peace officer, as defined in…
   • § 21967 Except as provided in Section 21968, a local authority may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution prohibiting or restricting persons from…
   • § 21968 (a) A motorized skateboard shall not be propelled on any sidewalk, roadway, or any other part of a highway or on any bikeway, bicycle path or trail, equestrian…
   • § 21969 A local authority may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance regulating persons engaged in roller skating on a highway, sidewalk, or roadway.
   • § 21970 (a) No person may stop a vehicle unnecessarily in a manner that causes the vehicle to block a marked or unmarked crosswalk or sidewalk. (b) Subdivision (a)…
   • § 21971 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who violates subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 21451, subdivision (b) of Section 21453, subdivision (a)…
6. CHAPTER 6. Turning and Stopping and Turning Signals §§ 22100–22113 · 15 sections

   • § 22100 Except as provided in Section 22100.5 or 22101, the driver of any vehicle intending to turn upon a highway shall do so as follows: (a) Right Turns. Both the…
   • § 22100.5 No driver shall make a U-turn at an intersection controlled by official traffic signals except as provided in Section 21451, and then only from the far…
   • § 22101 (a) The Department of Transportation or local authorities, in respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may cause official traffic control…
   • § 22102 No person in a business district shall make a U-turn, except at an intersection, or on a divided highway where an opening has been provided in accordance with…
   • § 22103 No person in a residence district shall make a U-turn when any other vehicle is approaching from either direction within 200 feet, except at an intersection…
   • § 22104 No person shall make a U-turn in front of the driveway entrance or approaches to a fire station. No person shall use the driveway entrance or approaches to a…
   • § 22105 No person shall make a U-turn upon any highway where the driver of such vehicle does not have an unobstructed view for 200 feet in both directions along the…
   • § 22106 No person shall start a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked on a highway, nor shall any person back a vehicle on a highway until such movement can be made…
   • § 22107 No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety and then only…
   • § 22108 Any signal of intention to turn right or left shall be given continuously during the last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.
   • § 22109 No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle on a highway without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided in this chapter…
   • § 22110 (a) The signals required by this chapter shall be given by signal lamp, unless a vehicle is not required to be and is not equipped with turn signals. Drivers…
   • § 22111 All required signals given by hand and arm shall be given from the left side of a vehicle in the following manner: (a) Left turn—hand and arm extended…
   • § 22112 (a) On approach to a schoolbus stop where pupils are loading or unloading from a schoolbus, the schoolbus driver shall activate an approved amber warning light…
   • § 22113 This chapter does not prevent local authorities, by ordinance, from prohibiting the making of any turning movement by any vehicle at any intersection or…
7. CHAPTER 7. Speed Laws §§ 22348–22445.6 · 68 sections

   1. ARTICLE 1. Generally §§ 22348–22366 · 33 sections

      • § 22348 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 22351, a person shall not drive a vehicle upon a highway with a speed limit established pursuant to Section…
      • § 22349 (a) Except as provided in Section 22356, no person may drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 65 miles per hour. (b) Notwithstanding any other…
      • § 22350 No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and…
      • § 22351 (a) The speed of any vehicle upon a highway not in excess of the limits specified in Section 22352 or established as authorized in this code is lawful unless…
      • § 22352 The prima facie limits are as follows and shall be applicable unless changed as authorized in this code and, if so changed, only when signs have been erected…
      • § 22352.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 22352, a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a…
      • § 22353 When conducting an engineering and traffic survey, the City of Norco, in addition to the factors set forth in Section 627, may also consider equestrian safety.
      • § 22353.2 The City of Burbank may also consider equestrian safety when conducting an engineering and traffic survey of the public streets within the boundaries of the…
      • § 22353.3 The City of Glendale may also consider equestrian safety when conducting an engineering and traffic survey of the public streets within the boundaries of the…
      • § 22353.4 The City of Los Angeles may also consider equestrian safety when conducting an engineering and traffic survey of the public streets within the boundaries of…
      • § 22353.5 When conducting an engineering and traffic survey of the public streets within the boundaries of the common interest development known as Orange Park Acres, in…
      • § 22354 (a) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the limit of 65 miles per hour is more than…
      • § 22354.5 (a) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, to increase or decrease the existing speed limit…
      • § 22355 Whenever the Department of Transportation determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the safe and orderly movement of traffic upon any…
      • § 22356 (a) Whenever the Department of Transportation, after consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, determines upon the basis of an…
      • § 22357 (a) Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that a speed greater than 25 miles per hour would facilitate the…
      • § 22357.1 Notwithstanding Section 22357, a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, set a prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour on any street, other than…
      • § 22358 (a) Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the limit of 65 miles per hour is more than is reasonable or…
      • § 22358.3 Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour in a business…
      • § 22358.4 (a) (1) Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the prima facie speed limit established by subdivision…
      • § 22358.5 It is the intent of the Legislature that physical conditions such as width, curvature, grade and surface conditions, or any other condition readily apparent to…
      • § 22358.6 (a) The Department of Transportation shall, in the next scheduled revision, revise and thereafter maintain the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control…
      • § 22358.7 (a) If the Department of Transportation or a local authority, after completing an engineering and traffic survey, finds that the speed limit is still more than…
      • § 22358.8 (a) If the Department of Transportation or a local authority, after completing an engineering and traffic survey, finds that the speed limit is still more than…
      • § 22358.9 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Transportation may or a local authority may, by ordinance, determine and declare a 25- or…
      • § 22359 With respect to boundary line streets and highways where portions thereof are within different jurisdictions, no ordinance adopted under Sections 22357 and…
      • § 22360 (a) Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the limit of 65 miles per hour is more than is reasonable or…
      • § 22361 On multiple-lane highways with two or more separate roadways different prima facie speed limits may be established for different roadways under any of the…
      • § 22362 It is prima facie a violation of the basic speed law for any person to operate a vehicle in excess of the posted speed limit upon any portion of a highway…
      • § 22363 Notwithstanding any speed limit that may be in effect upon the highway, the Department of Transportation in respect to state highways, or a local authority…
      • § 22364 Whenever the Department of Transportation determines, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, that the safe and orderly movement of traffic upon…
      • § 22365 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any county or city, which is contained, in whole or in part, within the South Coast Air Quality Management…
      • § 22366 (a) Whenever the Director of Transportation determines the date upon which the state may establish a maximum speed limit of 65 miles per hour on highways…
   2. ARTICLE 2. Other Speed Laws §§ 22400–22413 · 14 sections

      • § 22400 (a) No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the reduced speed is…
      • § 22401 Local authorities in timing traffic signals may so regulate the timing thereof as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds…
      • § 22402 The Department of Transportation may, in the manner provided in Section 22404 determine the maximum speed, not less than five miles per hour, which can be…
      • § 22403 Any local authority may, in the manner provided in Section 22404, determine the maximum speed, not less than five miles per hour, which can be maintained with…
      • § 22404 The Department of Transportation or local authority making a determination of the maximum safe speed upon a bridge, elevated structure, tube, or tunnel shall…
      • § 22405 (a) No person shall drive a vehicle on any bridge, elevated structure, tube, or tunnel constituting a part of a highway, at a speed which is greater than the…
      • § 22406 No person may drive any of the following vehicles on a highway at a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour: (a) A motortruck or truck tractor having three or…
      • § 22406.1 (a) A person who operates a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 15210, upon a highway at a speed exceeding a posted speed limit…
      • § 22406.5 Any person who drives a tank vehicle subject to Division 14.7 (commencing with Section 34000) while transporting more than 500 gallons of flammable liquid at a…
      • § 22407 Whenever the Department of Transportation or local authority determines upon the basis of engineering studies and a traffic survey that the speed of 55 miles…
      • § 22409 No person shall operate any vehicle equipped with any solid tire when such vehicle has a gross weight as set forth in the following table at any speed in…
      • § 22410 No person shall operate any vehicle equipped with any metal tire in contact with the surface of the highway at a speed in excess of six miles per hour.
      • § 22411 No person shall operate a motorized scooter at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour.
      • § 22413 Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the prima facie limit of 25 miles per hour is more than is…
   3. ARTICLE 3. Speed Safety System Pilot Program §§ 22425–22431 · 7 sections

      • § 22425 (a) As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (1) “Automated speed violation” means a violation of a speed law detected by a speed safety…
      • § 22426 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a violation of any speed law pursuant to this chapter that is recorded by a speed safety system authorized pursuant to…
      • § 22427 (a) No later than 30 calendar days from the date of mailing of a notice of violation, the recipient may request an initial review of the notice by the issuing…
      • § 22428 (a) Within 30 days after personal delivery or mailing of the final decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 22427, the contestant may seek review by…
      • § 22429 (a) A designated jurisdiction shall offer a diversion program for indigent speed safety system violation recipients, to perform community service in lieu of…
      • § 22430 Any designated jurisdiction that used speed safety systems shall, on or before March 1 of the fifth year in which the system has been implemented, submit to…
      • § 22431 This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2032, and as of that date is repealed.
   4. ARTICLE 4. The City of Malibu’s Speed Safety Pilot Program §§ 22435–22441 · 7 sections

      • § 22435 (a) As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (1) “Automated speed violation” means a violation of a speed law detected by a speed safety…
      • § 22436 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a violation of any speed law pursuant to this chapter that is recorded by a speed safety system authorized pursuant to…
      • § 22437 (a) No later than 30 calendar days from the date of mailing of a notice of violation, the recipient may request an initial review of the notice by the issuing…
      • § 22438 (a) Within 30 days after personal delivery or mailing of the final decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 22437, the contestant may seek review by…
      • § 22439 (a) A designated jurisdiction shall offer a diversion program for indigent speed safety system violation recipients, to perform community service in lieu of…
      • § 22440 The designated jurisdiction that used a speed safety system shall, on or before March 1 of the fifth year in which the system has been implemented, submit to…
      • § 22441 This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2032, and as of that date is repealed.
   5. ARTICLE 5. State Highway Work Zone Speed Safety Program §§ 22445–22445.6 · 7 sections

      • § 22445 (a) As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (1) “Automated speed violation” means a violation of a speed law detected by a speed safety…
      • § 22445.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a violation of any speed law pursuant to this chapter that is recorded by a speed safety system authorized pursuant to…
      • § 22445.2 (a) No later than 30 calendar days from the date of mailing of a notice of violation, the recipient may request an initial review of the notice by the…
      • § 22445.3 (a) Within 30 days after personal delivery or mailing of the final decision described in subdivision (c) of Section 22445.2, the contestant may seek review by…
      • § 22445.4 (a) The department shall offer the ability for indigent speed safety system violation recipients to pay applicable fines and penalties over a period of time…
      • § 22445.5 (a) No later than two years after the commencement of the state highway work zone speed safety program, and annually thereafter, the department shall prepare…
      • § 22445.6 This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2032, and as of that date is repealed.
8. CHAPTER 8. Special Stops Required §§ 22450–22456 · 9 sections

   • § 22450 (a) The driver of any vehicle approaching a stop sign at the entrance to, or within, an intersection shall stop at a limit line, if marked, otherwise before…
   • § 22451 (a) The driver of any vehicle or pedestrian approaching a railroad or rail transit grade crossing shall stop not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail and…
   • § 22452 (a) Subdivisions (b) and (d) apply to the operation of the following vehicles: (1) A bus or farm labor vehicle carrying passengers. (2) A motortruck…
   • § 22452.5 The Department of Transportation and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may place signs at railroad grade…
   • § 22453 Failure of the driver of a motor vehicle carrying any passenger for hire to stop as required in Section 22452 shall not be imputed to any bona fide passenger…
   • § 22454 (a) The driver of any vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking, from either direction, any schoolbus equipped with signs as required in this code, that is stopped…
   • § 22454.5 Notwithstanding Section 42001, a person convicted of a first violation of Section 22454 shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred fifty dollars…
   • § 22455 (a) The driver of any commercial vehicle engaged in vending upon a street may vend products on a street in a residence district only after bringing the vehicle…
   • § 22456 (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Destiny Nicole Stout Memorial Act. (b) The Legislature finds and declares that motor vehicles engaged…
9. CHAPTER 9. Stopping, Standing, and Parking §§ 22500–22526 · 59 sections

   • § 22500 A person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in…
   • § 22500.1 In addition to Section 22500, no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid…
   • § 22500.2 (a) A local authority may, by ordinance, prohibit a person from stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, except if…
   • § 22500.5 Upon agreement between a transit system operating buses engaged as common carriers in local transportation and a public school district or private school,…
   • § 22501 No ordinance enacted by local authorities pursuant to subdivisions (e) and (k) of Section 22500 or Section 22507.2 shall become effective as to any state…
   • § 22502 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway with adjacent curbs or class IV bikeways, as defined in Section…
   • § 22503 Local authorities may by ordinance permit angle parking on any roadway, or left-hand parking upon one-way roadways of divided highways, except that no…
   • § 22503.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, establish special parking regulations for two-wheeled or…
   • § 22504 (a) Upon any highway in unincorporated areas, a person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway…
   • § 22505 (a) The Department of Transportation with respect to highways under its jurisdiction may place signs or markings prohibiting or restricting the stopping,…
   • § 22506 Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on a state highway, in their respective…
   • § 22507 (a) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles, including, but not limited to,…
   • § 22507.1 (a) A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, designate certain streets or portions of streets for the exclusive or nonexclusive parking privilege of…
   • § 22507.2 Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 22500, a local authority may, by ordinance, authorize the owner or lessee of property to park a vehicle in front of…
   • § 22507.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 22507, local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of vehicles on certain…
   • § 22507.6 Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of vehicles on designated streets or highways, or portions…
   • § 22507.8 (a) It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle in a stall or space designated for disabled persons and disabled veterans pursuant to…
   • § 22507.9 Local authorities may establish a special enforcement unit for the sole purpose of providing adequate enforcement of Section 22507.8 and local ordinances and…
   • § 22508 (a) A local authority shall not establish parking payment zones or fix the rate of fees for those zones except by ordinance. The rate of fees may be variable,…
   • § 22508.2 (a) A local authority in the City and County of San Francisco, City of Long Beach, or City of Santa Monica may require payment by a mobile device in a parking…
   • § 22508.5 (a) A vehicle may park, for up to the posted time limit, in any parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking meter or an inoperable parking payment…
   • § 22509 Local authorities within the reasonable exercise of their police powers may adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution providing that no person…
   • § 22510 (a) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of vehicles on designated streets or highways within their…
   • § 22511 (a) (1) A local authority, by ordinance or resolution, and a person in lawful possession of an offstreet parking facility may designate stalls or spaces in an…
   • § 22511.1 (a) A person shall not park or leave standing a vehicle in a stall or space designated pursuant to Section 22511 unless the vehicle is connected for electric…
   • § 22511.2 (a) A parking space served by electric vehicle supply equipment or a parking space designated as a future electric vehicle charging space shall count as at…
   • § 22511.3 (a) A veteran displaying special license plates issued under Section 5101.3, 5101.4, 5101.5, 5101.6, or 5101.8 may park his or her motor vehicle, weighing not…
   • § 22511.5 (a) (1) A disabled person or disabled veteran displaying special license plates issued under Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued under Section…
   • § 22511.55 (a) (1) A disabled person or disabled veteran may apply to the department for the issuance of a distinguishing placard. The placard may be used in lieu of the…
   • § 22511.56 (a) A person using a distinguishing placard issued under Section 22511.55 or 22511.59, or a special license plate issued under Section 5007, for parking as…
   • § 22511.57 A local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking or standing of a vehicle on streets or highways or in a parking stall or…
   • § 22511.58 (a) Upon a request to the department by a local public law enforcement agency or local agency responsible for the administration or enforcement of parking…
   • § 22511.59 (a) Upon the receipt of the applications and documents required by subdivision (b), (c), or (d), the department shall issue a temporary distinguishing placard…
   • § 22511.6 (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles may cancel or revoke a distinguishing placard issued pursuant to Section 22511.55 or 22511.59 in any of the following…
   • § 22511.7 (a) In addition to Section 22511.8 for offstreet parking, a local authority may, by ordinance or resolution, designate onstreet parking spaces for the…
   • § 22511.8 (a) A local authority, by ordinance or resolution, and a person in lawful possession of an offstreet parking facility may designate stalls or spaces in an…
   • § 22511.85 A vehicle, identified with a special license plate issued pursuant to Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued pursuant to Section 22511.55 or 22511.59,…
   • § 22511.9 Every new or replacement sign installed on or after January 1, 1992, relating to parking privileges for disabled persons shall refer to “disabled persons”…
   • § 22511.95 All new or replacement signs installed on or after July 1, 2008, relating to parking privileges for disabled persons shall refer to “persons with disabilities”…
   • § 22511.10 The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Two and one-half million Californians suffer from some form of chronic obstructive…
   • § 22511.11 (a) The Office of the State Architect shall propose regulations specifying the location of disabled person parking stalls or spaces designated pursuant to…
   • § 22512 Except as otherwise indicated in subdivision (b), none of the following provisions shall apply to the driver or owner of any service vehicle owned or operated…
   • § 22513 (a) (1) It is a misdemeanor for a towing company or the owner or operator of a tow truck to stop or cause a person to stop at the scene of an accident or near…
   • § 22513.1 (a) (1) A business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck during hours the business is open to the public shall document all of the following: (A) The…
   • § 22514 No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle within 15 feet of a fire hydrant except as follows: (a) If the vehicle is attended by a licensed…
   • § 22515 (a) No person driving, or in control of, or in charge of, a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand on any highway unattended without first effectively setting…
   • § 22516 No person shall leave standing a locked vehicle in which there is any person who cannot readily escape therefrom.
   • § 22517 No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering…
   • § 22518 (a) Fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities constructed, maintained, or operated by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 146.5 of…
   • § 22519 Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution prohibit, restrict or regulate the parking, stopping or standing of vehicles on any offstreet parking facility…
   • § 22520.5 (a) No person shall solicit, display, sell, offer for sale, or otherwise vend or attempt to vend any merchandise or service while being wholly or partly within…
   • § 22520.6 (a) No person shall engage in any activity within a highway roadside rest area or vista point prohibited by rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section…
   • § 22521 No person shall park a vehicle upon any railroad track or within 71/2 feet of the nearest rail.
   • § 22522 No person shall park a vehicle within three feet of any sidewalk access ramp constructed at, or adjacent to, a crosswalk or at any other location on a sidewalk…
   • § 22523 (a) No person shall abandon a vehicle upon any highway. (b) No person shall abandon a vehicle upon public or private property without the express or implied…
   • § 22524 (a) The abandonment of any vehicle in a manner as provided in Section 22523 shall constitute a prima facie presumption that the last registered owner of record…
   • § 22524.5 (a) Any insurer that is responsible for coverage for ordinary and reasonable towing and storage charges under an automobile insurance policy to an insured or…
   • § 22525 Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution authorize vanpool vehicles to utilize designated state highway bus stops. The ordinance or resolution shall be…
   • § 22526 (a) Notwithstanding any official traffic control signal indication to proceed, a driver of a vehicle shall not enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless…
10. CHAPTER 10. Removal of Parked and Abandoned Vehicles §§ 22650–22856 · 61 sections

    1. ARTICLE 1. Authority to Remove Vehicles §§ 22650–22711 · 41 sections

       • § 22650 (a) It is unlawful for a peace officer or an unauthorized person to remove an unattended vehicle from a highway to a garage or to any other place, except as…
       • § 22651 A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or a regularly employed and salaried employee…
       • § 22651.05 (a) A trained volunteer of a state or local law enforcement agency, who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations, of a city,…
       • § 22651.07 (a) A person, including a law enforcement agency, city, county, city and county, the state, a tow yard, storage facility, or an impounding yard, that charges…
       • § 22651.08 (a) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may remove a vehicle located within the…
       • § 22651.1 Persons operating or in charge of any storage facility where vehicles are stored pursuant to Section 22651 shall accept a valid bank credit card or cash for…
       • § 22651.2 (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly employed and salaried…
       • § 22651.3 (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly employed…
       • § 22651.4 (a) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may impound a vehicle and its cargo…
       • § 22651.5 (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly employed and salaried…
       • § 22651.6 A peace officer or employee specified in Section 22651 may remove a vehicle located within the territorial limits in which the officer or employee may act when…
       • § 22651.7 (a) In addition to, or as an alternative to, removal, a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the…
       • § 22651.8 For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (i) of Section 22651 and Section 22651.7, “satisfactory evidence” includes, but is not limited to, a copy of a…
       • § 22651.9 (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly employed and salaried…
       • § 22652 (a) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly employed and salaried…
       • § 22652.5 The owner or person in lawful possession of an offstreet parking facility, or any local authority owning or operating an offstreet parking facility, who causes…
       • § 22652.6 Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any regularly employed and salaried…
       • § 22653 (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, other than an employee…
       • § 22654 (a) Whenever any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or other employee…
       • § 22655 (a) When any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code or any regularly…
       • § 22655.3 Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, pursuing a fleeing or evading person in a…
       • § 22655.5 A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may remove a motor vehicle from the highway or…
       • § 22656 Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may remove a vehicle from the…
       • § 22658 (a) The owner or person in lawful possession of private property, including an association of a common interest development, as defined in Sections 4080 and…
       • § 22658.1 (a) Any towing company that, in removing a vehicle, cuts, removes, otherwise damages, or leaves open a fence without the prior approval of the property owner…
       • § 22659 Any peace officer of the Department of the California Highway Patrol or any person duly authorized by the state agency in possession of property owned by the…
       • § 22659.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city or a county may adopt an ordinance declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject to seizure and…
       • § 22660 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or city and county may adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement and removal, as…
       • § 22661 Any ordinance establishing procedures for the removal of abandoned vehicles shall contain all of the following provisions: (a) The requirement that notice be…
       • § 22662 Vehicles or parts thereof may be disposed of by removal to a scrapyard, automobile dismantler’s yard, or any suitable site operated by a local authority for…
       • § 22663 Any ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 22660 shall provide for administration of the ordinance by regularly salaried full-time employees of the city,…
       • § 22664 Any licensed dismantler or commercial enterprise acquiring vehicles removed pursuant to such ordinance shall be excused from the reporting requirements of…
       • § 22665 Notwithstanding Section 22710 or any other provision of law, the department may, at the request of a local authority, other than a service authority,…
       • § 22666 Whenever the department is administering a program pursuant to Section 22665, it shall by regulation establish procedures for the abatement and removal of…
       • § 22667 In establishing procedures for the abatement and removal of abandoned vehicles, the department shall give priority to the removal of abandoned vehicles from…
       • § 22668 No local authority whose abandoned vehicle abatement and removal program is administered pursuant to Section 22665 shall be eligible for any disbursement from…
       • § 22669 (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any other employee of…
       • § 22670 (a) For lien sale purposes, the public agency causing the removal of the vehicle shall determine if the estimated value of the vehicle that has been ordered…
       • § 22671 A local authority may either issue a franchise or execute a contract for the removal of abandoned vehicles in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
       • § 22710 (a) A service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles may be established, and a one dollar ($1) vehicle registration fee imposed, in a county if the…
       • § 22711 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the California Highway Patrol, any city, county, or city and county which has an abandoned vehicle abatement…
    2. ARTICLE 2. Vehicle Disposition §§ 22850–22856 · 20 sections

       • § 22850 Whenever an officer or employee removes a vehicle from a highway, or from public or private property, unless otherwise provided, he shall take the vehicle to…
       • § 22850.3 (a) A vehicle placed in storage pursuant to Section 22850 shall be released to the owner or person in control of the vehicle only if the owner or person…
       • § 22850.5 (a) A city, county, or city and county, or a state agency may adopt a regulation, ordinance, or resolution establishing procedures for the release of properly…
       • § 22851 (a) (1) Whenever a vehicle has been removed to a garage under this chapter and the keeper of the garage has received the notice or notices as provided herein,…
       • § 22851.1 (a) If the vehicle is impounded pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 22651 and not released as provided in that subdivision, the vehicle may be sold pursuant…
       • § 22851.2 (a) Excepting a vehicle removed pursuant to Section 22669, if the vehicle is determined to have a value not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) pursuant to…
       • § 22851.3 Whenever a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, or any other employee of a public…
       • § 22851.4 If the vehicle is determined to have a value exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) pursuant to Section 22670, the lien shall be satisfied pursuant to Sections…
       • § 22851.5 (a) The Counties of Alameda and Los Angeles may implement a program to dispose of recreational vehicles subject to the requirements described in subdivision…
       • § 22851.6 (a) Lienholders who acquire a vehicle subject to Section 22851.2 shall satisfy their lien pursuant to Sections 22851.8 and 22851.10 if the vehicle has a value…
       • § 22851.8 (a) The lienholder shall, within 15 working days following the date of possession of the vehicle, make a request to the Department of Motor Vehicles for the…
       • § 22851.10 (a) A vehicle determined to have a value not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) pursuant to Section 22670 that was stored pursuant to this chapter, and that…
       • § 22851.12 The lienholder may charge a fee for lien-sale preparations not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) in the case of a vehicle having a value determined to be four…
       • § 22852 (a) Whenever an authorized member of a public agency directs the storage of a vehicle, as permitted by this chapter, or upon the storage of a vehicle as…
       • § 22852.5 (a) Whenever the possessory lien upon any vehicle is lost through trick, fraud, or device, the repossession of the vehicle by the lienholder revives the…
       • § 22853 (a) Whenever an officer or an employee removing a California registered vehicle from a highway or from public property for storage under this chapter does not…
       • § 22854 The Department of Justice upon receiving notice under Section 22853 of the removal of a vehicle from a highway, or from public or private property, shall…
       • § 22854.5 Whenever an officer or employee of a public agency directs the storage of a vehicle under this chapter, the officer, employee, or agency directing that storage…
       • § 22855 The following persons shall have the authority to make appraisals of the value of vehicles for purposes of this chapter, subject to the conditions stated in…
       • § 22856 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no cause of action for despoliation of evidence shall arise against any towing company that sells any vehicle at,…
11. CHAPTER 11. Parking Lots §§ 22950–22953 · 4 sections

    • § 22950 Any city having a population of over 2,000,000 inhabitants shall regulate offstreet parking facilities within its jurisdiction in a manner not inconsistent…
    • § 22951 No operator of any offstreet parking facility shall park the vehicle of a patron of the facility in any street or alley.
    • § 22952 Every person engaged in the operation of off-street parking facilities is guilty of a violation, who: (a) Tows or removes or authorizes the towing and removal…
    • § 22953 (a) An owner or person in lawful possession of private property that is held open to the public, or a discernible portion thereof, for parking of vehicles at…
12. CHAPTER 12. Public Offenses §§ 23100–23249.50 · 53 sections

    1. ARTICLE 1. Driving Offenses §§ 23100–23135 · 30 sections

       • § 23100 The provisions of this chapter apply to vehicles upon the highways and elsewhere throughout the State unless expressly provided otherwise.
       • § 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 reckless driving. (b) A…
       • § 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 as a substitute for, an…
       • § 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…
       • § 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 a…
       • § 23109 (a) A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. As used in this section, a motor vehicle speed…
       • § 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 of the…
       • § 23109.2 (a) (1) Whenever a peace officer determines that a person was engaged in an activity set forth in paragraph (2), the peace officer may immediately arrest and…
       • § 23109.3 If a peace officer arrests a person for a violation of subdivision (d) of Section 23109 and causes the removal and seizure of the vehicle used to commit the…
       • § 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 offenses which…
       • § 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 to do…
       • § 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, any lighted or…
       • § 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 or abet in the…
       • § 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 of…
       • § 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…
       • § 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…
       • § 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, a vehicle shall…
       • § 23115 (a) No vehicle transporting garbage, swill, used cans or bottles, wastepapers, waste cardboard, ashes, refuse, trash, or rubbish, or any noisome, nauseous, or…
       • § 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 person shall ride…
       • § 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 vehicle on a highway unless…
       • § 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…
       • § 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 extends below the…
       • § 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…
       • § 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…
       • § 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…
       • § 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 a wireless…
       • § 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 is…
       • § 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…
       • § 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 of being…
       • § 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 406, and…
    2. ARTICLE 1.3. Offenses by Persons Under 21 Years of Age Involving Alcohol § 23136 · 1 section

       • § 23136 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 23152 and 23153, it is unlawful for a person under the age of 21 years who has a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.01 percent or…
    3. ARTICLE 1.5. Juvenile Offenses Involving Alcohol § 23140 · 1 section

       • § 23140 (a) It is unlawful for a person under the age of 21 years who has 0.05 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle. (b) A…
    4. ARTICLE 2. Offenses Involving Alcohol and Drugs §§ 23152–23229.1 · 19 sections

       • § 23152 (a) It is unlawful for a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage to drive a vehicle. (b) It is unlawful for a person who has 0.08 percent…
       • § 23152.5 Notwithstanding Section 23152, a person who is under the influence of a drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and drug who is under the…
       • § 23153 (a) It is unlawful for a person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or…
       • § 23154 (a) It is unlawful for a person who is on probation for a violation of Section 23152 or 23153 to operate a motor vehicle at any time with a blood-alcohol…
       • § 23155 Beginning January 1, 2022, when a disposition described in Section 13151 of the Penal Code is a conviction for a violation of subdivision (f) of Section 23152…
       • § 23158 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, only a licensed physician and surgeon, registered nurse, licensed vocational nurse, duly licensed clinical…
       • § 23213 No patient or other person residing in a social rehabilitation facility licensed pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500) of Division 2 of the…
       • § 23215 The department may, but shall not be required to, provide patrol or enforce the provisions of Section 23152 for offenses which occur other than upon a highway.
       • § 23216 (a) The provisions of Sections 2, 6, 7, and 10 expressly apply to the provisions of this article, and, further, for any recidivist or enhancement purpose,…
       • § 23217 The Legislature finds and declares that some repeat offenders of the prohibition against driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, when they are…
       • § 23220 (a) A person shall not drink any alcoholic beverage or smoke or ingest marijuana or any marijuana product while driving a motor vehicle on any lands described…
       • § 23221 (a) A driver shall not drink any alcoholic beverage or smoke or ingest marijuana or any marijuana product while driving a motor vehicle upon a highway. (b) A…
       • § 23222 (a) A person shall not have in their possession on their person, while driving a motor vehicle upon a highway or on lands, as described in subdivision (c) of…
       • § 23223 (a) A driver shall not have in the driver’s possession, while in a motor vehicle upon a highway or on lands, as described in subdivision (c) of Section 23220,…
       • § 23224 (a) No person under 21 years of age shall knowingly drive any motor vehicle carrying any alcoholic beverage, unless the person is accompanied by a parent,…
       • § 23225 (a) (1) It is unlawful for the registered owner of any motor vehicle to keep in a motor vehicle, when the vehicle is upon any highway or on lands, as described…
       • § 23226 (a) It is unlawful for any driver to keep in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, when the vehicle is upon any highway or on lands, as described in…
       • § 23229 (a) Except as provided in Section 23229.1, Section 23221, as it applies to an alcoholic beverage, and Section 23223 do not apply to passengers in any bus,…
       • § 23229.1 (a) Subject to subdivision (b), Sections 23223 and 23225 apply to any driver providing transportation services on a prearranged basis as a charter-party…
    5. ARTICLE 4. Ignition Interlock Device § 23247 · 1 section

       • § 23247 (a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly rent, lease, or lend a motor vehicle to another person known to have had their driving privilege restricted as…
    6. ARTICLE 5. Alcohol and Drug Problem Assessment Program § 23249.50 · 1 section

       • § 23249.50 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or a drug is a serious problem,…
13. CHAPTER 13. Vehicular Crossings and Toll Highways §§ 23250–23336 · 31 sections

    1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 23250–23255 · 6 sections

       • § 23250 All of the provisions of this code not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to vehicular crossings and toll highways. This…
       • § 23251 (a) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall provide for proper and adequate policing of all toll highways and all vehicular crossings to ensure…
       • § 23252 The chief of toll services, captains, lieutenants, and sergeants employed by the Department of Transportation shall have the powers and authority of peace…
       • § 23253 All persons in, or upon, any toll highway or vehicular crossing shall at all times comply with any lawful order, signal, or direction by voice or hand of any…
       • § 23254 A “vehicular crossing” is any toll bridge or toll highway crossing and the approaches thereto, constructed or acquired by the Department of Transportation…
       • § 23255 An “approach” is that portion of a state highway leading to or from a toll bridge or toll highway crossing which lies between one end of the bridge or crossing…
    2. ARTICLE 2. Towing on Vehicular Crossings §§ 23270–23273 · 4 sections

       • § 23270 (a) No person shall commence to tow any vehicle or other object on any vehicular crossing unless authorized to do so by the Department of Transportation and…
       • § 23271 A towing service may be maintained on each vehicular crossing by the Department of Transportation, and the department may furnish such service as is necessary…
       • § 23272 When any vehicle or object on any vehicular crossing, upon which towing service is maintained, is stopped for any reason and is obstructing or may obstruct…
       • § 23273 Sections 24605, 25253, 27700, and 27907 do not apply to vehicles operated by the Department of Transportation pursuant to this article.
    3. ARTICLE 3. Tolls and Other Charges §§ 23300–23309 · 14 sections

       • § 23300 The Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs at each entrance to a vehicular crossing to notify traffic that it is entering upon a vehicular…
       • § 23301 Except as provided in Sections 23301.3 and 23301.5, a vehicle that enters into or upon a vehicular crossing is liable for those tolls and other charges…
       • § 23301.3 (a) A vehicle described in subdivision (b) is exempt from a toll or other charge on a toll road, toll bridge, toll highway, vehicular crossing, or other toll…
       • § 23301.5 (a) An authorized emergency vehicle is exempt from any requirement to pay a toll or other charge on a vehicular crossing, toll highway, or high-occupancy toll…
       • § 23301.8 Where an issuing agency permits pay-by-plate toll payment as described in subdivision (e) of Section 23302, it shall communicate, as practicable, the…
       • § 23302 (a) (1) It is unlawful for a driver to fail to pay tolls or other charges on any vehicular crossing or toll highway. Except as otherwise provided in…
       • § 23302.5 (a) No person shall evade or attempt to evade the payment of tolls or other charges on any vehicular crossing or toll highway. (b) A violation of subdivision…
       • § 23303 The Department of Transportation shall have a lien and may enforce such lien, as provided in Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 3067) of Title 14 of Part 4…
       • § 23304 (a) With respect to a toll bridge, an issuing agency that permits pay-by-plate toll payment as described in subdivision (e) of Section 23302 or that permits…
       • § 23305 (a) An issuing agency shall allow a driver of a rental vehicle to register the rental vehicle to a transponder or other electronic toll payment device account…
       • § 23306 (a) (1) An issuing agency that operates an electronic toll collection system that permits payment by a transponder or other electronic toll payment device…
       • § 23307 (a) If an issuing agency offers a transponder or other electronic toll payment device, a person shall be allowed to acquire a transponder or other electronic…
       • § 23308 (a) Subject to extenuating circumstances and holidays, the hours during which one of the issuing or processing agency’s offices or customer service centers are…
       • § 23309 (a) Subject to extenuating circumstances and holidays, the issuing agency, directly or through a third-party vendor, shall maintain a customer service…
    4. ARTICLE 4. Special Traffic Regulations §§ 23330–23336 · 7 sections

       • § 23330 Except where a special permit has been obtained from the Department of Transportation under the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section 35780) of…
       • § 23331 Pedestrians shall not be permitted upon any vehicular crossing, unless unobstructed sidewalks of more than three feet in width are constructed and maintained…
       • § 23332 It is unlawful for any person to be upon any portion of a vehicular crossing which is not intended for public use without the permission of the Department of…
       • § 23333 No vehicle shall stop, stand, or be parked in or upon any vehicular crossing except: (a) When necessary to avoid injury or damage to persons or property. (b)…
       • § 23334 The Department of Transportation may adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with this chapter for the control of traffic on any vehicular crossing to aid…
       • § 23335 The Department of Transportation shall cause to be published and made available to the public at the tollgates of each vehicular crossing copies of those…
       • § 23336 It is unlawful to violate any rules or regulations adopted under Section 23334, notice of which has been given either by a sign on a vehicular crossing or by…