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The California Vehicle Code, informally referred to as the Veh. Code or the CVC , is a legal code which contains almost all statutes relating to the operation, ownership and registration of vehicles (including bicycles [ 1 ] and even animals when riding on a public roadway [ 2 ] ) in the state of California in the United States .
The first act regulating the use of automobiles for safety reasons in California was established by the Vehicle Act of 1915. [6] The provisions of the first Vehicle Act relating to the department went into effect 90 days after the close of that legislative session. The department of Motor Vehicles was within the Department of Finance in 1921.
The act provides immunity to the State of California and its related entities from being sued. The law immunizes public employees from liability for “instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding” within the scope of their employment, “even if” the employees act “maliciously and without probable cause.” (Cal. Gov. Code, § 821.6)
A California car license plate saying ANRCHST (a vanity plate–speak form of anarchist) from 2006. The use of year-of-manufacture (YOM) plates is authorized by Section 5004.1 of the California Motor Vehicle Code. It is a law that allows vintage cars to be registered to use vintage license plates.
[3] [4] [5] The jury award was the largest against an automaker until a $150 million verdict in a 1996 case, Hardy vs. General Motors. [ 6 ] The judge reduced the jury's punitive damages award to $3.5 million, which he later said was "still larger than any other punitive damage award in the state by a factor of about five."
Part 523: [78] Vehicle Classification; Part 525: [79] Exemptions from average fuel economy standards; Part 526: [80] Petitions and plans for relief under the Automobile Fuel Efficiency Act of 1980; Part 529: [81] Manufacturers of multistage automobiles; Part 531: [82] Passenger automobile average fuel economy standards; Part 533: [83] Light ...
Yuba Power Products, Inc, was a California torts case in which the Supreme Court of California dealt with the torts regarding product liability and warranty breaches. The primary legal issue of the case was to determine whether a manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market proves to have a defect that causes ...
In tort law, strict liability is the imposition of liability on a party without a finding of fault (such as negligence or tortious intent). The claimant need only prove that the tort occurred and that the defendant was responsible. The law imputes strict liability to situations it considers to be inherently dangerous. [8]