CVC Flashcards
2800.1(a) CVC
Evading a Police Officer in Vehicle (Misdemeanor)
Any person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year
1. Officer in pursuit of a vehicle
2. Willfully fleeing with intent to evade the officer
3. Saw red lamp of police vehicle,
4. Heard the siren
5. Patrol vehicle distinctively marked,
6. Officer was wearing distinctively marked uniform
2800.2(a) CVC
Felony Reckless Evading
If a person flees or attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer in violation of Section 2800.1 and the pursued vehicle is driven in a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property, the person driving the vehicle, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or by confinement in the county jail for not less than six months nor more than one year. The court may also impose a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or may impose both that imprisonment or confinement and fine.
1. Evading a police officer in a vehicle
2. With willful or blatant disregard for the safety of other people or property
2800.3(a) CVC
Felony Reckless Evading Causing Injury or Death
Whenever willful flight or attempt to elude a pursuing peace officer in violation of Section 2800.1 proximately causes serious bodily injury to any person, the person driving the pursued vehicle, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, five, or seven years, by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
1. Evading a police officer in a vehicle
2. Causing serious bodily injury or death
4000(a)(1) CVC
Vehicle Registration (Infraction)
A person shall not drive, move, or leave standing upon a highway, or in an off street public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid under this code or registered under the permanent trailer identification program, except that an off-highway motor vehicle which displays an identification plate or device issued by the department pursuant to Section 38010 may be driven, moved, or left standing in an off street public parking facility without being registered or paying registration fees.
1. Driving a motor vehicle
2. Without proof of registration
5200(a) CVC
License Plates Display
When two license plates are issued by the department for use upon a vehicle, they shall be attached to the vehicle for which they were issued, one in the front and the other in the rear.
1. Failure to display 2 plates
5204(a) CVC
Registration Tabs
Except as provided by subdivisions (b) and (c), a tab shall indicate the year of expiration and a tab shall indicate the month of expiration. Current month and year tabs shall be attached to the rear license plate assigned to the vehicle for the last preceding registration year in which license plates were issued, and, when so attached, the license plate with the tabs shall, for the purposes of this code, be deemed to be the license plate, except that truck tractors, and commercial motor vehicles having a declared gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more, shall display the current month and year tabs upon the front license plate assigned to the truck tractor or commercial motor vehicle. Vehicles that fail to display current month and year tabs or display expired tabs are in violation of this section.
1. Failure to attach to rear plate
2. CURRENT registration tabs
10851 CVC
Driving or Taking a Vehicle Without Consent (Wobbler)
1. The driving or taking of
2. A vehicle not the person’s own
3. Without consent
4. With intent to temporarily or permanently deprive the owner
5. Of title or possession of such vehicle
12500(a) CVC
Driving Without a License (Infraction or Misdemeanor)
A person may not drive a motor vehicle upon a highway, unless the person then holds a valid driver’s license issued under this code, except those persons who are expressly exempted under this code.
12951(a) CVC
Failing to Present a Drivers License
The licensee shall have the valid driver’s license issued to him or her in his or her immediate possession at all times when driving a motor vehicle upon a highway. Any charge under this subdivision shall be dismissed when the person charged produces in court a driver’s license duly issued to that person and valid at the time of his or her arrest
1. INFRACTION: if you fail to have license in your possession
2. MISDEMEANOR: if you refuse to present a driver’s license if requested to do so by a peace
officer
14601(a) CVC
Suspended or Revoked Drivers License (Misdemeanor)
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at any time when that person’s driving privilege is suspended or revoked for reckless driving in violation of Section 23103, 23104, or 23105, any reason listed in subdivision (a) or (c) of Section 12806 authorizing the department to refuse to issue a license, negligent or incompetent operation of a motor vehicle as prescribed in subdivision (e) of Section 12809, or negligent operation as prescribed in Section 12810.5, if the person so driving has knowledge of the suspension or revocation. Knowledge shall be conclusively presumed if mailed notice has been given by the department to the person pursuant to Section 13106. The presumption established by this subdivision is a presumption affecting the burden of proof.
14601.1(a) CVC
Suspended or Revoked Drivers License for Reckless Driving (Misdemeanor)
No person shall drive a motor vehicle when his or her driving privilege is suspended or revoked for any reason other than those listed in Section 14601, 14601.2, or 14601.5, if the person so driving has knowledge of the suspension or revocation. Knowledge shall be conclusively presumed if mailed notice has been given by the department to the person pursuant to Section 13106. The presumption established by this subdivision is a presumption affecting the burden of proof.
14601.2(a) CVC
Suspended or Revoked Drivers License for DUI (Misdemeanor)
A person shall not drive a motor vehicle at any time when that person’s driving privilege is suspended or revoked for a conviction of a violation of Section 23152 or 23153 if the person so driving has knowledge of the suspension or revocation.
16028(a) CVC
Proof of Financial Responsibility (Infraction)
Upon the demand of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision (b) or upon the demand of a peace officer or traffic collision investigator pursuant to subdivision (c), every person who drives a motor vehicle upon a highway shall provide evidence of financial responsibility for the vehicle that is in effect at the time the demand is made. The evidence of financial responsibility may be provided using a mobile electronic device. However, a peace officer shall not stop a vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether the vehicle is being driven in violation of this subdivision.
21453(a) CVC
Running a Red Light
A driver facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain stopped until an indication to proceed is shown,
22450(a) CVC
Running a Stop Sign
The driver of any vehicle approaching a stop sign at the entrance to, or within, an intersection shall stop at a limit line, if marked, otherwise before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection. If there is no limit line or crosswalk, the driver shall stop at the entrance to the intersecting roadway.
23103 CVC
Reckless Driving (Misdemeanor)
A person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons
or property is guilty of reckless driving.
1. Reckless driving
2. With willful or wanton disregard for the safety of other people or property
23109(a) CVC
Speed Contest (Misdemeanor)
A person shall not engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway. As used in this section, a motor vehicle speed contest includes a motor vehicle race against another vehicle, a clock, or other timing device. For purposes of this section, an event in which the time to cover a prescribed route of more than 20 miles is measured, but where the vehicle does not exceed the speed limits, is not a speed contest.
1. Driving a motor vehicle
2. On a highway (Includes freeways and public streets)
3. And willfully engaging in a speed contest
23123(a) CVC
Operating a Vehicle While Using a Wireless Telephone (Infraction)
A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone unless that telephone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free listening and talking, and is used in that manner while driving.
1. Talking on the phone while driving
23123.5(a) CVC
Operating a Veh. While Using a Handheld Wireless Telephone or E-Device
(Infraction)
A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while holding and operating a handheld wireless telephone or an electronic wireless communications device unless the wireless telephone or electronic wireless communications device is specifically designed and configured to allow voice-operated and hands-free operation, and it is used in that manner while driving.
1. Texting while driving
23152(a) CVC
DUI (Misdemeanor)
It is unlawful for a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage to drive a vehicle.
1. Under 23152(a) you can be charged with a DUI even if under a .08 BAC
23152(b) CVC
.08 DUI (Misdemeanor)
It is unlawful for a person who has 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle. For purposes of this article and Section 34501.16, percent, by weight, of alcohol in a person’s blood is based upon grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood or grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath. In any prosecution under this subdivision, it is a rebuttable presumption that the person had 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood at the time of driving the vehicle if the person had 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood at the time of the performance of a chemical test within three hours after the driving.
1. Under 23152(b), it is a DUI with a BAC of .08% BAC
23153(a) CVC
DUI Causing Bodily Injury (Wobbler)
It is unlawful for a person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
23153(b) CVC
.08 BAC DUI Causing Bodily Injury (Wobbler)
It is unlawful for a person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
24601 CVC
License Plate Light Requirement (Infraction)
Either the tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear license plate during darkness and render it clearly legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. When the rear license plate is illuminated by a lamp other than a required tail lamp, the two lamps shall be turned on or off only by the same control switch at all times.
