Vehicle Code California

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The vehicle code of the state of California has many rules and laws that are directly related to vehicle operating, owning a vehicle, registering a vehicle, and insuring a vehicle. Department of Motor Vehicle and Highway Patrol in California perform their duties and apply these rules and laws by proceeding the vehicle code of the state of California.
The key elements of the policy:
1. All vehicles in California must be registered. Vehicle registration must be renewed annually. According to Article 1, no one can drive a car that is not registered (Official California Legislative Information, Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3).
2. There are parking information and rules that all vehicles must obey.
3. All motor vehicles must be appropriate …show more content…

The rules, regulations and laws changed and updated after years, such as “1923”, “1935”, “1959” and 1999 (California Department of Motor Vehicles). For example, “in 1923”, “California Highway Patrol” emerged, “in 1935, the California Vehicle Act” was begun to be “known as the California Vehicle Code”, “in 1959, the California Vehicle Code was re-codified”, and seat belt regulation came in 1999 (California Department of Motor Vehicles). The laws and the regulations were updated for the benefits of people for safety issues. Changing or updating the California vehicle code is an example of policy making that it is seen that the issues were defined, had “agenda setting”, formulated, adopted, evaluated, and accepted (Kraft and Furlong, 2015). The California Vehicle Code was created with the “Institutional Theory” that gets the benefits of “structure, roles, powers and rules of government in determining policy” (Kraft and Furlong, 2015). It is because the other states vehicle codes influenced on the California’s, too. In conclusion, the California Vehicle Code was created in 1914, and then it was upgraded, updated, changed and it adopted some regulations and laws from other states like seat belt safety issue. It was done by the institutional theory because other state governments, local government and maybe foreign states’ regulations influenced on the California Vehicle Code on behalf of California

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