Vehicles: off-highway vehicle recreation.

(1) Existing law authorizes an off-highway motor vehicle that has been issued a plate or device to be operated or driven upon a highway under certain circumstances. Existing law also authorizes various public entities, and the Director of Parks and Recreation, to designate a highway, or portion thereof, for the combined use of regular vehicular traffic and off-highway motor vehicles if certain requirements are met. Existing law prohibits a highway from being designated for this combined use for a distance of more than 3 miles. This bill would exempt from this prohibition a county road located in an unincorporated area in the County of Inyo unless the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol finds that designating a highway, or a portion of a highway, in the county would create a potential traffic safety hazard. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Inyo.