Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
The operation of official lamp adjusting stations shall be
subject to the following provisions:
(a) Class A official lamp adjusting stations
shall provide an aiming screen or an optical type headlamp-aiming machine.
Class A stations may provide, in addition, a mechanical type headlamp aiming
machine and related calibration equipment. A Class BL station that limits its
lamp aiming to lamps with aiming pads shall provide a mechanical type headlamp
aiming machine and related calibration equipment.
Each official lamp adjusting station shall be equipped with
a voltmeter and other tools necessary for proper lamp servicing.
(b) Equipment for aiming headlamps
and auxiliary lamps shall be approved by the Bureau. Aiming equipment shall be
used only in the work area prescribed in subsection (b) of Section
3305 of this chapter, and as
follows:
(1) Aiming screens may be used for
all headlamps and auxiliary lamps. Provision shall be made so that the screen
can be shaded sufficiently from both direct and ambient light during daylight
hours to perform aiming functions adequately.
(2) Optical type headlamp aiming machines may
be used for all headlamps and auxiliary lamps.
(3) Mechanical type headlamp aiming machines
shall be used only for lamps manufactured with three aiming pads on the
lens.
(c) Each official
lamp adjusting station shall maintain, in a location readily accessible to
licensed adjusters, a current copy of the following:
(1) The Bureau's Handbook for Lamp
Adjusters and Stations, referenced in subsection (a) of Section
3305 of this Chapter.
(2) All appropriate and current lamp
adjustment standards, specifications, directives, manuals, bulletins, and
instructions issued by motor vehicle and lamp manufacturers that are applicable
to vehicles for which the station adjusts lamps.
(3) Service manuals and operating
instructions issued by the manufacturers for all headlamp aiming instruments,
machines, devices, and equipment used by the station.
(d) Effective April 1, 1999, licensed
stations shall purchase certificates of adjustment from the Bureau for a fee of
three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) each and shall not purchase or otherwise
obtain such certificates from any other source. Full payment is required at the
time certificates are ordered. Certificates are not exchangeable following
delivery. A licensed station shall not sell or otherwise transfer unused
certificates of adjustment. Issuance of a lamp adjustment certificate shall be
in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) When a lamp adjustment certificate is
issued to an applicant for an authorized emergency vehicle permit, the
certificate shall certify that the vehicle has been inspected, that all lamps
and related electrical systems meet all requirements of the Vehicle Code and
Bureau regulations, and that all lamps capable of adjustment are properly
adjusted.
(2) Where all of the
lamps, lighting equipment, and related electrical systems on a vehicle have
been inspected and found to be in compliance with all requirements of the
Vehicle Code and Bureau regulations, the certificate shall certify that the
entire system meets all of those requirements.
(3) When a customer asks for a certificate of
lamp adjustment in conjunction with clearance of an enforcement form, the
adjuster may, if requested, inspect and certify only the portion of the
lighting system specified as defective on the enforcement form. Where the
entire system has not been tested or inspected or one or more defects have been
corrected, the certificate shall indicate which tests or inspections have been
performed, or which defect or defects have been corrected.
(4) A certificate shall be valid for 90 days
after its issuance to a consumer.
(e) After correcting specified defects,
official lamp adjusters shall certify that defects indicated on citations or
other enforcement forms have been corrected.
(1) The adjuster shall inform the customer of
any other defective conditions present or likely to occur in the future, which
have come to the adjuster's attention in conjunction with inspection of the
vehicle and correction of specified defects.
(2) If the customer does not authorize
additional repairs to correct other defects found during the inspection, the
adjuster shall certify that only the specific defects listed on the enforcement
form have been corrected.
(3) Only
a licensed adjuster employed at an official adjusting station may sign an
enforcement form as an official adjuster. The adjuster's license number, class,
and official station number shall be included with the signature.
(4) Certification by a licensed adjuster on
an enforcement form that a violation has been corrected shall include the date
of correction, the station's and the adjuster's license numbers, and the
adjuster's signature.
(f)
This section shall become inoperative on September 27, 2024.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 9882, 9887.1 and 9888.2,
Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 9887.1, 9888.2, 9889.16 and
9889.19, Business and Professions Code; and Section 40616, Vehicle Code.
Note: Authority cited: Sections
9882,
9887.1
and
9888.2,
Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
9887.1,
9888.2,
9889.16
and
9889.19,
Business and Professions Code; and Section
40616,
Vehicle Code.
