A violation of any of the following provisions is a misdemeanor, and not an infraction:

(a) Division 5 (commencing with Section 11100), relating to occupational licensing and business regulations.

Terms Used In California Vehicle Code 40000.11

  • bus: is a ny vehicle, including a trailer bus, designed, used, or maintained for carrying more than 15 persons including the driver. See California Vehicle Code 233
  • business: includes a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and any other form of commercial enterprise. See California Vehicle Code 234
  • driver: is a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See California Vehicle Code 305
  • farm labor vehicle: is a ny motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of nine or more farmworkers, in addition to the driver, to or from a place of employment or employment-related activities. See California Vehicle Code 322
  • schoolbus: is a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of any school pupil at or below the 12th grade level to or from a public or private school or to or from public or private school activities, except the following:

    California Vehicle Code 545

  • tow truck: is a motor vehicle which has been altered or designed and equipped for, and primarily used in the business of, transporting vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, tow bar, tow line, or dolly or is otherwise primarily used to render assistance to other vehicles. See California Vehicle Code 615
  • vehicle: is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See California Vehicle Code 670

(b) Section 12515, subdivision (b), relating to persons under 21 years of age driving, and the employment of those persons to drive, vehicles engaged in interstate commerce or transporting hazardous substances or wastes.

(c) Section 12517, relating to a special driver‘s certificate to operate a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus.

(d) Section 12517.45, relating to a special driver’s certificate and vehicle inspection for the transportation of pupils to or from school-related activities by a passenger charter-party carrier as defined in subdivision (k) of Section 545.

(e) Section 12519, subdivision (a), relating to a special driver’s certificate to operate a farm labor vehicle.

(f) Section 12520, relating to a special driver’s certificate to operate a tow truck.

(g) Section 12951, subdivision (b), relating to refusal to display license.

(h) Section 13004, relating to unlawful use of an identification card.

(i) Section 13004.1, relating to identification documents.

(j) Sections 14601, 14601.1, 14601.2, and 14601.5, relating to driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license.

(k) Section 14604, relating to unlawful use of a vehicle.

(l) Section 14610, relating to unlawful use of a driver’s license.

(m) Section 14610.1, relating to identification documents.

(n) Section 15501, relating to use of false or fraudulent license by a minor.

(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 218. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.)

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