California State Vehicle Code
Street
590. "Street"
is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the
use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Street includes highway.
Engineering and
Traffic Survey
627. (a)
"Engineering and traffic survey," as used in this code, means a survey of
highway and traffic conditions in accordance with methods determined by the
Department of Transportation for use by state and local authorities.
(b) An engineering and traffic survey
shall include, among other requirements deemed necessary by the department,
consideration of all of the following:
(1) Prevailing speeds as determined by
traffic engineering measurements.
(2) Accident records.
(3) Highway, traffic, and roadside
conditions not readily apparent to the driver.
(c) When conducting an engineering and
traffic survey, local authorities, in addition to the factors set forth in
paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b) may consider all of the
following:
(1) Residential density, if any of the
following conditions exist on the particular portion of highway and the
property contiguous thereto, other than a business district:
(A) Upon one side of the highway,
within a distance of a quarter of a mile, the contiguous property fronting
thereon is occupied by 13 or more separate dwelling houses or business
structures.
(B) Upon both sides of the highway,
collectively, within a distance of a quarter of a mile, the contiguous
property fronting thereon is occupied by 16 or more separate dwelling houses
or business structures.
(C) The portion of highway is longer
than one-quarter of a mile but has the ratio of separate dwelling houses or
business structures to the length of the highway described in either
subparagraph (A) or (B).
(2) Pedestrian and bicyclist safety.
Driving or Parking on Public
Grounds
21113.
(a) No person shall drive
any vehicle or animal, nor shall any person stop, park, or leave standing
any vehicle or animal, whether attended or unattended, upon the
driveways, paths, parking facilities, or the grounds of any public school,
state university, state college, unit of the state park system, county park,
municipal airport, rapid transit district, transit development board,
transit district, joint powers agency operating or managing a commuter rail
system, or any property under the direct control of the legislative body of
a municipality, or any state, county, or hospital district institution or
building, or any educational institution exempted, in whole or in part, from
taxation. Part 2 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, except with
the permission of, and upon and subject to any condition or regulation which
may be imposed by the legislative body of the municipality, or the governing
board or officer of the public school, state university, state college,
county park. .....
(b) Every governing board, legislative
body, or officer shall erect or place appropriate signs giving notice of any
special conditions or regulations that are imposed under this section and
every board, legislative body, or officer shall also prepare and keep
available at the principal administrative office of the board, legislative
body, or officer, for examination by all interested persons, a written
statement of all those special conditions and regulations adopted under this
section.
(c) When any governing board,
legislative body, or officer permits public traffic upon the driveways,
paths, parking facilities, or grounds under their control then, except for
those conditions imposed or regulations enacted by the governing board,
legislative body, or officer applicable to the traffic, all the provisions
of this code relating to traffic upon the highways shall be applicable to
the traffic upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds.
(d) With respect to the permitted use
of vehicles or animals on property under the direct control of the
legislative body of a municipality, no change in the use of vehicles or
animals on the property, which had been permitted on January 1, 1976, shall
be effective unless and until the legislative body, at a meeting open to the
general public, determines that the use of vehicles or animals on the
property should be prohibited or regulated.
.......
(f) A public agency, including, but not limited to, the Regents of the
University of California and the Trustees of the California State
University, may adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the
conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles, skateboards, and
roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that agency.
Amended Ch. 274, Stats. 1993.
Effective August 2, 1993.
Amended Sec. 69, Ch. 305, Stats. 1996. Effective January 1, 1997.
Light Impairing
Driver's Vision
21466.5.
No person shall place or maintain
or display, upon or in view of any highway, any light of any color of such
brilliance as to impair the vision of drivers upon the highway. A light
source shall be considered vision impairing when its brilliance exceeds the
values listed below.
The brightness reading of an
objectionable light source shall be measured with a 1 1/2-degree
photoelectric brightness meter placed at the driver's point of view. The
maximum measured brightness of the light source within 10 degrees from the
driver's normal line of sight shall not be more than 1,000 times the minimum
measured brightness in the driver's field of view, except that when the
minimum measured brightness in the field of view is 10 foot-lamberts or
less, the measured brightness of the light source in foot-lambert shall not
exceed 500 plus 100 times the angle, in degrees, between the driver's line
of sight and the light source.
The provisions of this section shall
not apply to railroads as defined in Section 229 of the Public Utilities
Code.
Speed
22350.
No person shall drive a
vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent
having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface
and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the
safety of persons or property.
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