California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 3 - Vehicle Registration and Titling
Section 157.00 - Firefighting Vehicles

Universal Citation: 13 CA Code of Regs 157.00

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) A firefighting vehicle is defined as any vehicle that contains firefighting apparatus and equipment which is designed and intended primarily for firefighting. The following privately owned vehicles, when operated upon a highway only in responding to, and returning from, emergency fire calls, qualify as firefighting vehicles and are exempt from registration:

(1) Fire trucks equipped with hose and ladders.

(2) Fire engines.

(3) Other vehicles permanently equipped with firefighting apparatus and equipment.

(4) A tank truck operated solely in conjunction with a fire truck, fire engine or other self propelled firefighting apparatus.

(b) Privately owned vehicles or a combination of vehicles, which are not designed primarily for firefighting, including hazardous materials response vehicles, dedicated rescue vehicles, command post communications vehicles, passenger vehicles, buses, mobile kitchens, mobile sanitation facilities, and heavy equipment transport vehicles, do not qualify as firefighting vehicles as defined under subdivision (a) of this section.

1. New section filed 4-17-2003; operative 5-17-2003 (Register 2003, No. 16).

Note: Authority cited: Section 1651, Vehicle Code. Reference: Section 8589.10(c), Government Code; and Section 4015, Vehicle Code.

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