California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 2 - Department of the California Highway Patrol
Chapter 11 - Rules Applicable to Use of State Property
Article 1 - General
Section 1851 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 13 CA Code of Regs 1851

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

As used in this chapter:

(a) "Commercial Activity" shall mean any activity or action, undertaken in whole or in part by one or more business entities and/or individuals, whose purpose in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, is to derive or realize a present or future financial gain for the individual(s) or business entity or entities.

(b) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.

(c) "Demonstration" includes the parading, picketing, selling of non-commercial printed matter or materials, marching, moving in procession, holding of vigils, and engaging in other like forms of activity which involve the communication of views or grievances, orally or by conduct and which has the effect, intent or propensity to draw a crowd or onlookers.

(d) "Department" means the Department of California Highway Patrol.

(e) " Gathering" shall mean the assemblage of more than two persons for other than the conducting of state business and having the effect, intent or propensity to draw a crowd or onlookers.

(f) "State Capitol Grounds" is synonymous with "State Capitol Park" or "Park" and includes the area located in the blocks bound by 9th and 10th, L and N Streets and 10th and 15th, and L and N Streets, in the City of Sacramento, State of California.

(g) "State Property" includes all property owned, leased, rented, controlled, used, or occupied by any department or part thereof of the Government of the State of California. For purposes of this chapter, State Property does not include:

(1) Property of the University of California, California State University, or Hastings College of Law, other than property occupied by a state agency not under the authority of the administering body of the University of California, the California State University, or Hastings College of Law.

(2) Property of any department or subdivision of state government, which is authorized by law to employ one or more peace officers within the state civil service, whose primary duty, as defined by law, is the provision of law enforcement services upon the property (e.g., California Exposition and State Fair, state hospitals of the Departments of Mental Health or a Developmental Services, and parks and beaches of the Department of Parks and Recreation).

(3) Property of the Departments of Corrections or Youth Authority which is maintained and used primarily for the custody or housing of inmates or wards under the jurisdiction of the Departments of Corrections or Youth Authority.

(4) Property under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Transportation as outlined in the Streets & Highways Code, Chapter 3, Sections 660-670.

(h) "Vehicle" means any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be propelled, moved, or drawn.

1. New section filed 11-26-96; operative 12-26-96 (Register 96, No. 48).

Note: Authority cited: Section 14685, Government Code. Reference: Section 14685(c), Government Code.

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