Department of Consumer Affairs: Bureau of Household Goods and Services: household movers.

Existing law establishes the Bureau of Household Goods and Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law establishes the Division of Household Movers within the bureau and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of household movers. Existing law, the Household Movers Act, defines terms for its purposes, including "household mover," which includes every corporation or person, as specified, engaged in the permitted or unpermitted transportation for compensation or hire as a business by means of a motor vehicle or motor vehicles being used in the transportation of used household goods and personal effects over any public highway in this state. This bill would exclude from the definition of "household mover" a motor carrier, as defined, that only provides transportation of household goods in containers or trailers when the household goods are entirely loaded and unloaded by an individual who is not an employee or agent of the motor carrier and does not otherwise advertise as a permitted household mover, as specified. The bill would also exclude from the definition of "household mover" a broker, as defined, that, pursuant to a broker registration issued by the United States Department of Transportation, only utilizes the services of that motor carrier and does not otherwise advertise as a permitted household mover, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.