Vehicles: parking violations.

Existing law, until January 1, 2016, authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) to install automated forward-facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes. Existing law subjects a violation of a federal or state statute or regulation, or a San Francisco ordinance, governing parking that is observed in the recordings to a civil penalty. Existing law requires San Francisco to provide to the transportation and judiciary committees of the Legislature, no later than March 1, 2015, an evaluation of the effectiveness and impact on privacy of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes if San Francisco installs automated forward-facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for that purpose. This bill would delete obsolete provisions requiring the evaluation and would also delete the repeal date for San Francisco's authority to install the parking control devices, thereby extending the operation of those provisions indefinitely. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.