Section 2430 Of Article 3.3. Tow Truck Drivers From California Vehicle Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.3.
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. (a) The Legislature hereby creates a pilot project to develop
recommendations for requiring emergency road service organizations
and their specified employees, within the state, to be certified and
receive specified training in the interest of public safety. The
project shall be limited to freeway service patrol operations for
major urban areas. The project includes, but is not limited to, the
issuance of tow truck driver certificates to employees and employers
involved in freeway service patrol operations, criminal history
checks for convictions of specified crimes, and training for
enhancement of public safety. The purpose of the project shall be to
develop recommendations for requiring all emergency road service
organizations and specified employees, within the state, to be
certified and receive specified training in the interest of public
safety.
(b) This project shall be for a period of two years commencing on
July 1, 1992. The department shall submit a report to the Legislature
not later than September 1, 1994. The report shall include, but not
be limited to, all of the following:
(1) The number of criminal history checks processed by the
department.
(2) The number of specified tow truck driver certificates issued.
(3) The number of persons rejected for freeway service patrol
operations as a result of the criminal history checks.
(4) The names of participating emergency road service
organizations.
(5) An accounting of the number of certified persons who were
subsequently disqualified for convictions of specified crimes,
including the number of certified persons subsequently disqualified
for convictions of specified crimes against those receiving service.
(6) The training received by specified personnel.
(7) Recommendations developed by the Emergency Roadside Assistance
Advisory Committee regarding training, as specified in Section 2438,
and guidelines for motorist safety, as specified in Section 2439.
(8) Information compiled from reports submitted by highway service
organizations pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 2440.
(9) Recommendations for extending the requirements of this article
and Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 2435) to all highway
service organizations and their specified employees within the state.
(c) The Legislature declares that it is important to the public
safety that tow truck drivers, who perform freeway service patrol
operations under agreement with any specified public transportation
planning entity, do not have criminal records which include violent
crimes against persons.