California Senate Bill SB1454 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 1454INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator La Malfa FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to amend Section 4852 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1454, as introduced, La Malfa. Vehicles: license plates: number and character specifications. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner two partially or fully reflectorized license plates or devices for a motor vehicle and requires that the number and letter characters on the plates have a minimum height of 23/4 inches, a minimum width of 11/4 inches, and a minimum spacing of characters of 5/16 of an inch. This bill would instead require that the number and letter characters on the license plates have a minimum width of 13/16 inches, and a minimum spacing of characters of 1/4 of an inch. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 4852 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 4852. (a) License plates issued for motor vehicles, other than motorcycles, shall be rectangular in shape, 12 inches in length and six inches in width. The number and letter characters on the plates shall have a minimum height of two and three-quarter inches, a minimum width of one and  one-quarter   three-sixteenths  inches, and a minimum spacing between characters of  five-sixteenths   one-quarter  of an inch. (b) Motorcycle license plates shall measure seven inches in length and four inches in width, and the characters on the plates shall have a minimum height of one and one-half inches and a minimum width of nine-sixteenths inches, and shall have a minimum spacing between characters of three-sixteenths of an inch.