California Senate Bill SB1388 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 1388AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 10, 2012 INTRODUCED BY Senator DeSaulnier (Coauthors: Senators Price and Wyland) (  Coauthor:  Assembly Member   Jeffries   Coauthors:   Assembly Members   Jeffries   and Bonnie Lowenthal  ) FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to add Section 22508.5 to the Vehicle Code, relating to parking. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1388, as amended, DeSaulnier. Parking: inoperable parking meters. Existing law authorizes a local authority to establish parking meter zones and fix the rate or fees for those zones by ordinance. Existing law further authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance, cause streets and highways to be marked with white lines designating parking spaces and require vehicles to park within the parking spaces. This bill would authorize a local authority to adopt an ordinance or resolution prohibiting or restricting the parking of a vehicle at an inoperable parking meter    or inoperable parking payment center  , as defined. The bill would also authorize  the  parking at an inoperable parking meter for up to the posted time limit  ,  if no ordinance or resolution has been adopted to prohibit it. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 22508.5 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read: 22508.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a vehicle may park  in any parking space  , for up to the posted time limit,  for which parking   in any parking space that  is subject to an inoperable parking meter or  an inoperable  parking payment center. (b) Local authorities may, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit or restrict the parking of vehicles at inoperable parking meters  or inoperable parking payment centers  . No ordinance or resolution adopted by a local authority pursuant to this section shall become effective until signs or markings giving adequate notice of the restriction or prohibition on parking have been placed at parking locations, parking meters, or parking payment centers. (c) For purposes of this section: (1) "Inoperable parking meter" means a meter located next to and designated for an individual parking space,  or the parking payment center closest to the space where a person has parked, which does not accept payment in any form, does not register that a payment in any form has been made, or does not issue a required receipt   which has become inoperable and cannot accept payment in any form or cannot register   that a payment in any form has been made  .  (2) "Parking payment center" means an electronic parking meter serving one or more parking spaces that dispenses time receipts that are required to be displayed in a conspicuous location on or in the vehicle or otherwise authorizes parking for payment of a fee.   (2) "Inoperable parking payment center" means an electronic parking meter or pay station serving one or more parking spaces that is closest to the space where a person has parked and which cannot accept payment in any form, cannot register that a payment in any form has been made, or cannot issue a receipt that is required to be displayed in a conspicuous location on or in the vehicle.