20250AB__240199INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 2025 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Ta LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ta

An act to amend

Section of the Vehicle Code, relating to parking violations. parking violations Video imaging of parking violations. Existing law authorizes a public transit operator in the state, until January 1, 2027, and authorizes the City and County of San Francisco indefinitely, to enforce parking violations in transit-only traffic lanes and at transit stops through the use of video imaging, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in these provisions. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Vehicle Code , as amended by

Section of

Chapter of the Statutes of 2022, is amended to read: 40240. (

a) A public transit operator, as defined in

Section of the Public Utilities Code, may install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned or district-owned public transit vehicles, as defined by

Section of the Public Utilities Code, for the purpose of video imaging of parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes and at transit stops. Citations shall be issued only for violations captured during the posted hours of operation for a transit-only traffic lane or during the scheduled operating hours at transit stops. The devices shall be angled and focused so as to capture video images of parking violations and not unnecessarily capture identifying images of other drivers, vehicles, and pedestrians.

The devices shall record the date and time of the violation at the same time as the video images are captured. Transit agencies may share the relevant data, video, and images of parking violations collected by automated forward facing parking control devices with the local parking enforcement entity and local agency in the jurisdiction where the violation occurred. A transit operator, including the City and County of San Francisco and the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, may install forward facing cameras pursuant to this

section only if the examiner or issuing agency, as described in

Section 40215, includes options to reduce or waive the payment of a parking penalty if the examiner or issuing agency determines that the person is an indigent person as defined in

Section 40220. (

b) Prior to issuing notices of parking violations pursuant to subdivision (

a) of

Section 40241, a public transit operator, in partnership with a city, county, city and county, or local enforcement authority, shall commence a program to issue only warning notices for days and shall also make a public announcement of the program and provide the public with information about the enforcement program, existing parking regulations, and the payment options available for low-income persons at least days prior to commencement of issuing notices of parking violations. (

c) A designated employee of a city, county, city and county, or a contracted law enforcement agency for a special transit district, who is qualified by a city, county, city and county, or district to issue parking citations, shall review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane or at a transit stop.

A violation of a statute, regulation, or ordinance governing vehicle parking under this code, under a federal or state statute or regulation, or under an ordinance enacted by a city, county, city and county, or special transit district occurring in a transit-only traffic lane or at a transit stop observed by the designated employee in the recordings is subject to a civil penalty. (

d) The registered owner shall be permitted to review the video image evidence of the alleged violation during normal business hours at no cost. (e)

(1) Except as it may be included in court records described in

Section of the Government Code, or as provided in paragraph (2), the video image evidence may be retained for up to six months from the date the information was first obtained, or days after final disposition of the citation, whichever date is later, after which time the information shall be destroyed.

(2) Notwithstanding

Section 26202.6 of the Government Code, video image evidence from forward facing automated enforcement devices that does not contain evidence of a parking violation occurring in a transit-only traffic lane or at a transit stop shall be destroyed within days after the information was first obtained. Video image data and records collected pursuant to this

section shall not be used or processed by an automated license plate recognition system, as defined in

Section 1798.90.5 of the Civil Code, unless the public transit operator, city, county, city and county, or local enforcement authority meets the requirements in this paragraph and paragraph (1), the requirements of subdivision (f), and the requirements of subdivision (

e) of

Section 40241. (

f) Notwithstanding

Article 1 (commencing with

Section 7922.500) and

Article 2 (commencing with

Section 7922.525) of

Chapter of Part of Division of Title of the Government Code, or any other law, the video image records are confidential. Public agencies shall use and allow access to these records only for the purposes authorized by this article. (

g) The following

definitions shall apply for purposes of this article: (1) “Local agency” means a public transit operator as defined in

Section of the Public Utilities Code or a local city, county, or city and county parking enforcement authority. (2) “Transit-only traffic lane” means any designated transit-only lane on which use is restricted to mass transit vehicles, or other designated vehicles including taxis and vanpools, during posted times. (

h) This

section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2027, and as of that date is repealed.