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SB-612 Vehicles: golf carts and low-speed vehicles: State Highway Route 16: crossing.(2003-2004)



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Senate Bill No. 612
CHAPTER 16

An act to add Section 21115.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  June 24, 2003. Approved by Governor  June 23, 2003. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 612, Oller. Vehicles: golf carts and low-speed vehicles: State Highway Route 16: crossing.
Existing law authorizes a local authority to establish crossing zones for use by golf carts and low-speed vehicles at any time other than during darkness, on any street, other than a state highway, that has a posted speed limit of 45 miles per hour or less and that is immediately adjacent to a golf course.
This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2006, a golf cart or a low-speed vehicle to cross State Highway Route 16 at certain intersections, if the crossing is controlled by an official traffic control device and is at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of the highway.
The bill would authorize the Ranch Murieta Community Services District to take any reasonable measures within its jurisdiction that are necessary to ensure that golf carts and low-speed vehicles may cross safely and that highway traffic is not unreasonably impeded thereby.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 21115.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

21115.5.
 (a) A golf cart or a low-speed vehicle may cross State Highway 16 at Murieta Drive and at Murieta South Parkway, if the crossing is controlled by an official traffic control device and is at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of the highway.
(b) The Rancho Murieta Community Services District may take any reasonable measures within its jurisdiction that are necessary to ensure that golf carts and low-speed vehicles may cross safely, as authorized under this section, and that highway traffic is not unreasonably impeded thereby.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2006, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2006, deletes or extends that date.

SEC. 2.

 Due to unique circumstances present within the portion of State Highway Route 16 that is contiguous to the territory of the Rancho Murieta Community Services District, the Legislature hereby finds and declares that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution. Therefore, the special legislation contained within Section 1 of this act is necessarily applicable only to that portion of highway.