Vehicles: local regulation of traffic: private roads.

Existing law generally prohibits a local entity from passing any ordinance or code regulating any matter that is regulated by the Vehicle Code. Existing law authorizes a local entity to declare by ordinance that there are privately owned and maintained roads within the jurisdiction that are generally held open for use by the public for vehicular travel or for vehicular travel to serve commercial establishments, or that there are privately owned and maintained offstreet parking facilities that are generally held open for use of the public for purposes of vehicular parking, or that there are privately owned and maintained roads that are not generally held open for use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel but, in the interests of any residents residing along the roads and the motoring public will best be served by application of the provisions of the Vehicle Code to those roads. Existing law requires that, before such an ordinance is passed, a public hearing be held and notice be given to the owners or occupants of a privately owned road or parking facility 10 days before the public hearing. This bill would increase the notice of hearing requirement to 15 days.