California Laws: Vehicle Code Section 23229.1
Section 23229.1
(a) Subject to subdivision (b), Sections 23223 and 23225
do apply to any charter-party carrier of passengers, as defined in
Section 5360 of the Public Utilities Code, operating a limousine for
hire when the driver of the vehicle transports any passenger under
the age of 21.
(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), it is not a violation of
Section 23225 for any charter-party carrier of passengers operating a
limousine for hire which is licensed pursuant to the Public
Utilities Code to keep any bottle, can, or other receptacle
containing any alcoholic beverage in a locked utility compartment
within the area occupied by the driver and passengers.
(c) In addition to the requirements of Section 1803, every clerk
of a court, or judge if there is no clerk, in which any driver in
subdivision (a) was convicted of a violation of Section 23225 shall
prepare within 10 days after conviction, and immediately forward to
the Public Utilities Commission at its office in San Francisco, an
abstract of the record of the court covering the case in which the
person was convicted. If sentencing is not pronounced in conjunction
with the conviction, the abstract shall be forwarded to the
commission within 10 days after sentencing, and the abstract shall be
certified, by the person required to prepare it, to be true and
correct.
For the purposes of this subdivision, a forfeiture of bail is
equivalent to a conviction.
(d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1989.
Section: 23229.1
