Vehicles: nuisance abatement.

Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt an ordinance declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject to seizure and an impoundment of up to 30 days if the vehicle is used in the commission or attempted commission of the crimes of pimping, pandering, and soliciting, or agreeing to engage in, or engaging in, any act of prostitution, or illegal dumping of commercial quantities of waste matter upon a public or private highway or road, if the owner or operator of the vehicle had a prior conviction for the same offense within the past 3 years. This bill would remove the prior conviction requirement for the sex crimes described above if the victim is a minor or a victim of human trafficking, as defined. The bill would also make other technical, nonsubstantive, and clarifying changes to these provisions.