New California Driving Laws take effect January 1st, 2016

This relates to anyone pulled over where the cellphone is confiscated.

This year, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act goes into effect. CalECPA requires police to get a warrant before searching your electronic devices. It will be up to a judge to decide if police have probable cause to access your devices, location information and search history.

Hoverboard legislation starts January 1st, 2016.

AB 604 defines a hoverboard as an "electrically motorized board" which means riders must be 16 or older and wear a helmet while riding.

The law also restricts use to specially designated bikeways or highways, which means hoverboards are no longer legal in public places.

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California law enforcement is expanding the already much abused Amber Alert program (DON'T FLUSH TOILETS WHILE DRIVING!) with a few new typically Californian wacko variations in 2016 (just like the already wacko five legally binding colors for curbs)

The first idiotic new alert is a 'Yellow Alert' which will go out on highway message boards with hit-and-run suspect vehicle descriptions.

The second idiotic new alert is a "Silver Alert', which will go out on highway message boards when a person 65 or older is missing.

Upcoming for next year ... White Alerts - warning when children don't brush their teeth or boys don't wash behind their ears!

Another new crime!

It's already illegal for car drivers, but if you're on a bicycle, it's now illegal to use a headset, earplugs or earbuds in both ears while operating your bicycle.

(11) Existing law prohibits a person operating a motor vehicle or a bicycle from wearing a headset covering both ears, or from wearing earplugs in both ears, subject to certain exceptions.

This bill would also prohibit wearing earphones covering, resting on, or inserted in, both ears. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The always wacko state of California had to make a (temporary) law so as to NOT charge tolls for pedestrians on bridges!

AB 40 keeps toll bridges free for pedestrians and bicyclists but only until 2021, so hurry up!

Just to prove that the state is filled with wackos, starting January 1st, 2016, California DMV offices will begin issuing driver's licenses to people in the country *illegally*.

Under AB 60, applicants must prove who they are, that they live in California and, surprisingly for California, they must also pass a driving test.

A new law will also provide access to auto insurance.

DMV officials say they expect about 1.4 million *illegal* cheaters to apply for a driver's license in the first three years.

The last time I had "access to auto insurance" it was $300 cash or certified check, in person at their offices, for a

It happens that Mark Bannon formulated :

"Hoverboard"? Like the ones used in 'Back To The Future part 2'?

I don't think issuing Cali drivers license to illegals will attract many illegals. That would mean they would have to get legal and buy insurance or have their ride confiscated and them jailed for no insurance. You can't jail the buggers because of being in country illegally, so off they go....on foot.

NSA and obama don't need n stinking warrants.

WORD!

Do they go ahead and register to vote then too?

That sounds great but it still doesn't stop them from looking. It only means they can't use the information in court. They still can use the information to "get lucky" in a traffic stop or know where to look to find legal probable cause from a place where you don't have the expectation of privacy.

Per Mark Bannon:

I wonder how that plays out in those 55 mph zones where "normal speed of traffic" is more like 60-65.

There are two types of hoverboards.

The two-wheeled variety are typically used by lazy kids.

When the lazy kids grow up, they graduate to the 18-wheelers you see at walmart hauling around obese shoppers.

Ah...I see said the blind man.

It's a new device invented by the medical profession to ensure a continued revenue stream. Presumably somewhere, sometime a person has gotten further than the myriad youtube fail videos. Think Seque with nothing to hold onto.

Being a glutton and a sloth has it's rewards.

For example, I was just at Disney World and noticed that fat people on obesecycles don't have to wait as long to get on a ride. In fact, they seem to get preferential treatment.

Is this what they call the Disney FatPass+?

I believe that about the medical community.

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Huh? lol

Per Scott Dorsey:

I keep hearing that the net Mexico-USA migration is towards Mexico now.

If that's correct, are the numbers over-ridden by immigration from Central America ?