To: mil-veh
Thank God I dont live in California, but here is a bill I was alterted of:
Basically it is a device that a Police officer can shoot a "encrypted" laser
beam at and stop your vehicle.
Notice the languauge in Section (2) that mandate ALL vehicles will have this
device by 2008.
Section (3) makes it a misdemeanor to disable this thing.
I fear this, because it seems like often legislation starts in California and
later trickles around to the other liberal
states like New York, then eventually to the whole country. (Like MBTE gas)
This seems like another threat to the hobby, can anyone from Ca. enlighten us as
to where this bill is?
BILL NUMBER: SB 2004 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 4, 2000
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 12, 2000
INTRODUCED BY Senator Speier
FEBRUARY 25, 2000
An act to amend Section 3053 of, and to add Sections 417.10,
1203.1p, and 13519.10 to, the Penal Code, and to amend Section
40000.15 of, and to add Sections 493, 2419.5, 4000.5, 4000.6, and
27010 to, the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 2004, as amended, Speier.
Pursuit intervention termination management system.
(1) Existing law provides for the duties and responsibilities of
the Department of the California Highway Patrol.
This bill would require the department to certify that a
manufacturer or the manufacturer's designee of any pursuit intervention
termination management
system, as defined, offered for sale in the state complies with
performance standards, as prescribed.
(2) Existing law does not require that vehicles offered for sale
in this state have a pursuit
intervention termination management system installed.
This bill would impose that requirement on new motor vehicles on
and after January 1, 2005, and on all vehicles required to be
registered in the state on and after January 1, 2008. The bill would
authorize the department to grant waivers from the installation
requirement, as specified.
(3) Existing law provides for certain equipment requirements for
motor vehicles and provides penalties for violations of those
requirements.
This bill would make it a misdemeanor, thereby imposing a
state-mandated local program, for any owner of a motor vehicle that
is required to install a functioning safety track
pursuit intervention termination management system to fail
to maintain that system in accordance with the manufacturer's
specification.
..........it goes on
but here is another scary part:
6) A remote activation device shall be sufficiently
accurate so as to activate the device installed in the targeted
vehicle, and leave unaffected any vehicle within a one-half mile
radius of the target vehicle.
Gee, half a mile, that could be me, in my car, trying to get the hell out of the
way!!
Here is the full URL
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_2001-2050/sb_2004_bill_20000504_amended_sen.html
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