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Vehicle Code § 312

DIVISION 1. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED

Current as of September 28, 2026Veh. Code, § 312Official source ↗Ask about this

Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1530.

The term “drug” means any substance or combination of substances, other than alcohol, which could so affect the nervous system, brain, or muscles of a person as to impair, to an appreciable degree, his ability to drive a vehicle in the manner that an ordinarily prudent and cautious man, in full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care, would drive a similar vehicle under like conditions.