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New Motor Vehicle Laws Seminar in San Francisco

17 November 1998

ADVISORY/New Motor Vehicle Laws Seminar in San Francisco; Recently Passed Laws Will Affect Vehicle License Fees, Automated Red Light Enforcement, Radar Jamming Devices

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    Big changes are in store net year for vehicle registration fees, red light runners, and owners of radar detection devices due to recently passed laws.
    Find out the details before they take effect at a seminar hosted by experts from AAA, the California Highway Patrol and the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

                  Motor Vehicle Legislation Seminar
                   10 a.m. to noon, Monday, Nov. 16
                California State Automobile Association
                       3rd Floor Conference Room
                         100 Van Ness Avenue
                             San Francisco

    The seminar is open to news media, law enforcement officials, judges, court referees and commissioners, but not to the general public. Experts will be available for media interviews throughout the seminar.
    Laws to be explained include AB 2797, a budget bill that provides for a 25 percent reduction in vehicle license fees beginning January 1, 1999. In future years, the vehicle license fee rate could be reduced by an even greater amount.
    SB 1964 (Costa) will prohibit any vehicle from being equipped with any radar jamming device. The law also prohibits the purchasing, selling, manufacturing or distributing of such devices.