Plain English Breakdown
The official text does not provide an effective date, only noting the bill passed the legislature.
Vehicles: Sideshow Accountability and Community Safety Act
This law makes it illegal to join or help organize vehicle sideshows, increases penalties for repeat offenders and cases involving injury, and allows courts to seize vehicles used in these events.
What This Bill Does
- Makes engaging in, aiding, or abetting a sideshow a misdemeanor crime.
- Updates the definition of 'sideshow' to include using any motor vehicle, including motorcycles or off-highway vehicles, to block traffic.
- Increases penalties for repeat offenders and cases where someone gets hurt, potentially making them felonies.
- Allows police officers to use video evidence from reliable sources to get court orders seizing vehicles used in these crimes.
- Declares performing vehicles a public nuisance that can be taken by the government after conviction if there is no undue hardship to others.
Who It Names or Affects
- People who drive, help organize, or aid sideshows.
- Owners of motorcycles and other motor vehicles used to block traffic for stunts.
- Courts handling cases involving speed exhibitions on highways or in parking lots.
- Law enforcement agencies seizing and processing forfeited vehicles.
Terms To Know
- Sideshow
- An event where two or more people block traffic to perform stunts, speed contests, or reckless driving for an audience using any motor vehicle.
- Performing vehicle
- Any motor vehicle used during a sideshow that may be subject to forfeiture if the operator is convicted.
- Forfeiture
- The legal process where the government takes ownership of property, such as a car, after it is declared a public nuisance following a conviction.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not specify an effective date in this text.
- Forfeiture only happens if there is no undue hardship to people other than the defendant.
- No state reimbursement is required for local agencies regarding costs created by this law.