Section 2578 Of Chapter 15.5. Vanpool Financing From California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 15.5.
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. (a) The department shall adopt guidelines for the making of
loans and for the purchase and lease of vanpool vehicles. The
guidelines shall, in the case of loans, include, but not be limited
to, a procedure to evaluate the vanpool operator's ability to repay
the loan in a timely fashion, as well as the need for the vanpool
vehicle and other criteria for selecting applicants. The department
shall assign priority in the following descending order:
(1) Vanpools operating on routes with no alternative public
transportation.
(2) Vanpool operators applying for loans or grants for new vanpool
vehicles.
(3) Applicants having previous successful experience as vanpool
operators.
(4) Vanpool operators applying for loans or grants for replacement
vanpool vehicles. For purposes of this paragraph, the vanpool
vehicle to be replaced shall be at least four years old or have
operated 250,000 or more miles, or both.
(b) Concurrently with the award of each loan or grant, the
department shall require each applicant to comply with subdivision
(h) of Section 12804 of the Vehicle Code and Section 34509 of the
Vehicle Code, and the insurance coverage requirements of the
department. The guidelines shall also set forth the limitations on
the nonwork-trip use of the vanpool vehicle, the maximum percentage
of the cost of a vanpool vehicle which may be covered by a loan or
grant under this chapter, and other requirements determined to be
necessary by the department.
(c) Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of
Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code does not apply to the
adoption of the guidelines.