BILL NUMBER: AB 726	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Dababneh)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add Section 35400.75 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 726, as amended, Nazarian. Vehicles: Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
   Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of
vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified
exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation, among other
things, an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not
exceed a length of 60 feet.
   This bill would authorize the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority to operate articulated buses that do not
exceed a length of 82 feet on the route designated as the Orange Line
in the County of Los Angeles.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
   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 35400.75 is added to the Vehicle Code,
immediately following Section 35400.7, to read:
   35400.75.   (a)    Notwithstanding Section
35400, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
created pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 130050) of
Division 12 of the Public Utilities Code may operate articulated
buses that do not exceed a length of 82 feet on the route designated
as the Orange Line in the County of Los Angeles. 
   (b) Implementation of this section is subject to the collective
bargaining requirements under Article 10 (commencing with Section
30750) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities
Code and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with
Section 99560) of Part 11 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities
Code). 
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances of a large number of riders using
buses operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority on the Orange Line and the need to reduce overcrowding on
those buses.