Amended IN Assembly March 24, 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1168Introduced by Assembly Member SolacheFebruary 21, 2025 An act to amend Section 23109 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. An act to add Section 118.10 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to the Department of Transportation.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1168, as amended, Solache. Vehicles: speed contests and exhibition of speed. Department of Transportation: transferred property: City of Lynwood.Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Various provisions of existing law specifically provide for the acquisition, transfer, and use of property owned by the department.This bill would, with respect to a parcel that the department transferred to the City of Lynwood, require the department to release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on that parcel that requires a portion of the property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Lynwood.Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting, a motor vehicle speed contest or motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, as specified.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 118.10 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique nature of the Imperial Highway property located in the City of Lynwood in the County of Los Angeles.SECTION 1.Section 23109 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:23109.(a)(1)A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(2)As used in this section, a motor vehicle speed contest includes a motor vehicle race against another vehicle, a clock, or other timing device.(3)For purposes of this section, an event in which the time to cover a prescribed route of more than 20 miles is measured, but in which the vehicle does not exceed the speed limit, is not a speed contest.(b)A person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(c)A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, and a person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(d)A person shall not, for the purpose of facilitating or aiding or as an incident to a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, in any manner, obstruct or place a barricade or obstruction or assist or participate in placing a barricade or obstruction on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(e)(1)A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 24 hours nor more than 90 days, or by a fine of not less than three hundred fifty-five dollars ($355) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment. That person shall also be required to perform 40 hours of community service. The court may order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to six months, as provided in paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352. The persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for 90 days to six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment. This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.(2)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) and that violation proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, the person convicted shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.(f)(1)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) for an offense that occurred within five years of the date of a prior offense that resulted in a conviction of a violation of subdivision (a), that person shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than four days nor more than six months and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).(2)If the perpetration of the most recent offense within the five-year period described in paragraph (1) proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, a person convicted of that second violation shall be imprisoned in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).(3)If the perpetration of the most recent offense within the five-year period described in paragraph (1) proximately causes serious bodily injury, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (f) of Section 243 of the Penal Code, to a person other than the driver, a person convicted of that second violation shall be imprisoned in the state prison, or in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than one year, and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).(4)The court shall order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle of a person convicted under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) suspended for a period of six months, as provided in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352. In lieu of the suspension, the persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment.(5)This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.(g)If the court grants probation to a person subject to punishment under subdivision (f), in addition to subdivision (f) and any other terms and conditions imposed by the court, which may include a fine, the court shall impose as a condition of probation that the person be confined in a county jail for not less than 48 hours nor more than six months. The court shall order the persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle to be suspended for a period of six months, as provided in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352 or restricted pursuant to subdivision (f).(h)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) and the vehicle used in the violation is registered to that person, the vehicle may be impounded at the registered owners expense for not less than 1 day nor more than 30 days.(i)(1)A person who violates subdivision (b), (c), or (d) shall, upon conviction of that violation, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both that fine and imprisonment.(2)(A)(i)Commencing July 1, 2025, the court may order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to six months for a person who violates subdivision (c), as provided in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352, only if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow.(ii)For purposes of this section, sideshow is defined as an event in which two or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving, for spectators. A sideshow is also known as a street takeover.(B)A persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for 90 days to six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment.(C)If the court is considering suspending or restricting the privilege to operate a motor vehicle pursuant to this paragraph, the court shall also consider whether a medical, personal, or family hardship exists that requires a person to have a drivers license for such limited purpose as the court deems necessary to address the hardship. This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.(j)If a persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle is restricted by a court pursuant to this section, the court shall clearly mark the restriction and the dates of the restriction on that persons drivers license and promptly notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of the terms of the restriction in a manner prescribed by the department. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall place that restriction in the persons records in the Department of Motor Vehicles and enter the restriction on a license subsequently issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to that person during the period of the restriction.(k)The court may order that a person convicted under this section, who is to be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, be imprisoned on days other than days of regular employment of the person, as determined by the court.(l)For purposes of this section, offstreet parking facility has the same meaning as in subdivision (c) of Section 12500.(m)This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Louis Friend Memorial Act.
Amended IN Assembly March 24, 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1168Introduced by Assembly Member SolacheFebruary 21, 2025 An act to amend Section 23109 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. An act to add Section 118.10 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to the Department of Transportation.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1168, as amended, Solache. Vehicles: speed contests and exhibition of speed. Department of Transportation: transferred property: City of Lynwood.Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Various provisions of existing law specifically provide for the acquisition, transfer, and use of property owned by the department.This bill would, with respect to a parcel that the department transferred to the City of Lynwood, require the department to release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on that parcel that requires a portion of the property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Lynwood.Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting, a motor vehicle speed contest or motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, as specified.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly March 24, 2025
Amended IN Assembly March 24, 2025
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1168
Introduced by Assembly Member SolacheFebruary 21, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Solache
February 21, 2025
An act to amend Section 23109 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. An act to add Section 118.10 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to the Department of Transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1168, as amended, Solache. Vehicles: speed contests and exhibition of speed. Department of Transportation: transferred property: City of Lynwood.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Various provisions of existing law specifically provide for the acquisition, transfer, and use of property owned by the department.This bill would, with respect to a parcel that the department transferred to the City of Lynwood, require the department to release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on that parcel that requires a portion of the property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Lynwood.Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting, a motor vehicle speed contest or motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, as specified.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Various provisions of existing law specifically provide for the acquisition, transfer, and use of property owned by the department.
This bill would, with respect to a parcel that the department transferred to the City of Lynwood, require the department to release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on that parcel that requires a portion of the property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Lynwood.
Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, aiding, or abetting, a motor vehicle speed contest or motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 118.10 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique nature of the Imperial Highway property located in the City of Lynwood in the County of Los Angeles.SECTION 1.Section 23109 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:23109.(a)(1)A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(2)As used in this section, a motor vehicle speed contest includes a motor vehicle race against another vehicle, a clock, or other timing device.(3)For purposes of this section, an event in which the time to cover a prescribed route of more than 20 miles is measured, but in which the vehicle does not exceed the speed limit, is not a speed contest.(b)A person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(c)A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, and a person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(d)A person shall not, for the purpose of facilitating or aiding or as an incident to a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, in any manner, obstruct or place a barricade or obstruction or assist or participate in placing a barricade or obstruction on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.(e)(1)A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 24 hours nor more than 90 days, or by a fine of not less than three hundred fifty-five dollars ($355) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment. That person shall also be required to perform 40 hours of community service. The court may order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to six months, as provided in paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352. The persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for 90 days to six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment. This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.(2)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) and that violation proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, the person convicted shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.(f)(1)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) for an offense that occurred within five years of the date of a prior offense that resulted in a conviction of a violation of subdivision (a), that person shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than four days nor more than six months and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).(2)If the perpetration of the most recent offense within the five-year period described in paragraph (1) proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, a person convicted of that second violation shall be imprisoned in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).(3)If the perpetration of the most recent offense within the five-year period described in paragraph (1) proximately causes serious bodily injury, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (f) of Section 243 of the Penal Code, to a person other than the driver, a person convicted of that second violation shall be imprisoned in the state prison, or in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than one year, and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).(4)The court shall order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle of a person convicted under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) suspended for a period of six months, as provided in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352. In lieu of the suspension, the persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment.(5)This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.(g)If the court grants probation to a person subject to punishment under subdivision (f), in addition to subdivision (f) and any other terms and conditions imposed by the court, which may include a fine, the court shall impose as a condition of probation that the person be confined in a county jail for not less than 48 hours nor more than six months. The court shall order the persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle to be suspended for a period of six months, as provided in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352 or restricted pursuant to subdivision (f).(h)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) and the vehicle used in the violation is registered to that person, the vehicle may be impounded at the registered owners expense for not less than 1 day nor more than 30 days.(i)(1)A person who violates subdivision (b), (c), or (d) shall, upon conviction of that violation, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both that fine and imprisonment.(2)(A)(i)Commencing July 1, 2025, the court may order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to six months for a person who violates subdivision (c), as provided in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352, only if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow.(ii)For purposes of this section, sideshow is defined as an event in which two or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving, for spectators. A sideshow is also known as a street takeover.(B)A persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for 90 days to six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment.(C)If the court is considering suspending or restricting the privilege to operate a motor vehicle pursuant to this paragraph, the court shall also consider whether a medical, personal, or family hardship exists that requires a person to have a drivers license for such limited purpose as the court deems necessary to address the hardship. This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.(j)If a persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle is restricted by a court pursuant to this section, the court shall clearly mark the restriction and the dates of the restriction on that persons drivers license and promptly notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of the terms of the restriction in a manner prescribed by the department. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall place that restriction in the persons records in the Department of Motor Vehicles and enter the restriction on a license subsequently issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to that person during the period of the restriction.(k)The court may order that a person convicted under this section, who is to be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, be imprisoned on days other than days of regular employment of the person, as determined by the court.(l)For purposes of this section, offstreet parking facility has the same meaning as in subdivision (c) of Section 12500.(m)This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Louis Friend Memorial Act.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 118.10 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.
SECTION 1. Section 118.10 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:
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118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.
118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.
118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.
118.10. (a) For purposes of this section, the Imperial Highway property means the parcel located in, and owned by, the City of Lynwood and known as Assessors Parcel Number 6169-001-900 and formerly known as the California Department of Transportation Parcel Number 058166-01-01.
(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) In 2016, the department transferred the Imperial Highway property located at the corner of Imperial Highway and Fernwood Avenue in the City of Lynwood to the city.
(2) Pursuant to the deed that conveyed the Imperial Highway property to the city, the department included a deed restriction that requires a portion of the property, known as the Alameda triangle property, to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years.
(c) The department shall release and remove the deed restriction that it imposed on the Imperial Highway property that requires a portion of the Imperial Highway property to be used exclusively for public purposes for a period of 15 years from the recorded date of the deed.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique nature of the Imperial Highway property located in the City of Lynwood in the County of Los Angeles.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique nature of the Imperial Highway property located in the City of Lynwood in the County of Los Angeles.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique nature of the Imperial Highway property located in the City of Lynwood in the County of Los Angeles.
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(a)(1)A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.
(2)As used in this section, a motor vehicle speed contest includes a motor vehicle race against another vehicle, a clock, or other timing device.
(3)For purposes of this section, an event in which the time to cover a prescribed route of more than 20 miles is measured, but in which the vehicle does not exceed the speed limit, is not a speed contest.
(b)A person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.
(c)A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, and a person shall not aid or abet in a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.
(d)A person shall not, for the purpose of facilitating or aiding or as an incident to a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, in any manner, obstruct or place a barricade or obstruction or assist or participate in placing a barricade or obstruction on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility.
(e)(1)A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 24 hours nor more than 90 days, or by a fine of not less than three hundred fifty-five dollars ($355) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment. That person shall also be required to perform 40 hours of community service. The court may order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to six months, as provided in paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352. The persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for 90 days to six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment. This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.
(2)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) and that violation proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, the person convicted shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(f)(1)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) for an offense that occurred within five years of the date of a prior offense that resulted in a conviction of a violation of subdivision (a), that person shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than four days nor more than six months and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(2)If the perpetration of the most recent offense within the five-year period described in paragraph (1) proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver, a person convicted of that second violation shall be imprisoned in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than six months and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(3)If the perpetration of the most recent offense within the five-year period described in paragraph (1) proximately causes serious bodily injury, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (f) of Section 243 of the Penal Code, to a person other than the driver, a person convicted of that second violation shall be imprisoned in the state prison, or in a county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than one year, and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(4)The court shall order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle of a person convicted under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) suspended for a period of six months, as provided in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352. In lieu of the suspension, the persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment.
(5)This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.
(g)If the court grants probation to a person subject to punishment under subdivision (f), in addition to subdivision (f) and any other terms and conditions imposed by the court, which may include a fine, the court shall impose as a condition of probation that the person be confined in a county jail for not less than 48 hours nor more than six months. The court shall order the persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle to be suspended for a period of six months, as provided in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352 or restricted pursuant to subdivision (f).
(h)If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) and the vehicle used in the violation is registered to that person, the vehicle may be impounded at the registered owners expense for not less than 1 day nor more than 30 days.
(i)(1)A person who violates subdivision (b), (c), or (d) shall, upon conviction of that violation, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(2)(A)(i)Commencing July 1, 2025, the court may order the privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended for 90 days to six months for a person who violates subdivision (c), as provided in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 13352, only if the violation occurred as part of a sideshow.
(ii)For purposes of this section, sideshow is defined as an event in which two or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving, for spectators. A sideshow is also known as a street takeover.
(B)A persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle may be restricted for 90 days to six months to necessary travel to and from that persons place of employment and, if driving a motor vehicle is necessary to perform the duties of the persons employment, restricted to driving in that persons scope of employment.
(C)If the court is considering suspending or restricting the privilege to operate a motor vehicle pursuant to this paragraph, the court shall also consider whether a medical, personal, or family hardship exists that requires a person to have a drivers license for such limited purpose as the court deems necessary to address the hardship. This subdivision does not interfere with the courts power to grant probation in a suitable case.
(j)If a persons privilege to operate a motor vehicle is restricted by a court pursuant to this section, the court shall clearly mark the restriction and the dates of the restriction on that persons drivers license and promptly notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of the terms of the restriction in a manner prescribed by the department. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall place that restriction in the persons records in the Department of Motor Vehicles and enter the restriction on a license subsequently issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to that person during the period of the restriction.
(k)The court may order that a person convicted under this section, who is to be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, be imprisoned on days other than days of regular employment of the person, as determined by the court.
(l)For purposes of this section, offstreet parking facility has the same meaning as in subdivision (c) of Section 12500.
(m)This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Louis Friend Memorial Act.