California Vehicle Code 40000.13 – A violation of any of the following provisions is a misdemeanor, and …
A violation of any of the following provisions is a misdemeanor, and not an infraction:
(a) Section 16560, relating to interstate highway carriers.
Terms Used In California Vehicle Code 40000.13
- Alcoholic beverage: includes any liquid or solid material intended to be ingested by a person which contains ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol, or alcohol, including, but not limited to, alcoholic beverages as defined in §. See California Vehicle Code 109
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- drug: means any substance or combination of substances, other than alcohol, which could so affect the nervous system, brain, or muscles of a person as to impair, to an appreciable degree, his ability to drive a vehicle in the manner that an ordinarily prudent and cautious man, in full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care, would drive a similar vehicle under like conditions. See California Vehicle Code 312
- Highway: is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See California Vehicle Code 360
(b) Sections 20002 and 20003, relating to duties at accidents.
(c) Section 21200.5, relating to riding a bicycle while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug.
(d) Subdivision (b) of Section 21651, relating to wrong-way driving on divided highways.
(e) Subdivision (c) of Section 21655.9, relating to illegal use of decals, labels, or other identifiers.
(f) Section 22520.5, a second or subsequent conviction of an offense relating to vending on or near freeways.
(g) Section 22520.6, a second or subsequent conviction of an offense relating to roadside rest areas and vista points.
(h) This section shall remain in effect only until the date that the Secretary of State receives the notice from the Director of Transportation as described in Section 5205.5, and as of that date is repealed.
(Amended (as amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 614, Sec. 5) by Stats. 2010, Ch. 215, Sec. 3. (SB 535) Effective January 1, 2011. Repealed on date prescribed by its own provisions. See later operative version, as amended by Sec. 4 of Ch. 215.)