Happy New Year! So far we welcome the New 2011 Year with drier weather conditions. Hopefully, this La Nina predicted year will have sunny,&hellip;{"id":170,"date":"2011-01-07T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pomonaswapmeet.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:34:24","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mainCSS\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span class=\"headerCSS\">Happy New Year!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                        So far we welcome the New 2011 Year with drier weather  conditions. Hopefully, this La Nina predicted year will have sunny, dry and  beautiful weekends for car shows all over the west coast, especially SoCal.<\/p>\n<p>                        As with ringing in the New Year, we also ring in new taxes  and new legislation for us motorists. As for California, we currently pay an  overwhelming VLF (vehicle license fee) which exceeds $80 in some counties by  combining 12 separate vehicle registration fees. This &quot;Car Tax&quot; was set at .65%  of a vehicle&rsquo;s assessed value from 2001 through 2009. In 2009, the VLF or &quot;Car  Tax&quot; was increased to 1.15% which equates to hundreds of dollars in  registration fees per driver. Californians now pay among the highest cost in  the country to keep their vehicles registered. Hopefully, Californian drivers  will not see any increases in their registration fees; and that the state would  use them to only fund transportation and motorist-related services.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/media\/clip_image002_0024.jpg?resize=283%2C174\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"12\" alt=\"truck_getting_ticketl.jpg\" \/> Additionally,  with all New Years, new motorist laws will take effect, such as these listed  below for the state of California (please check your own state legislature to  be current on your state&rsquo;s motorist laws):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SB 949 &#8211; Local Tickets &#8211; it is unlawful for  local governments to ticket drivers who commit moving violations under  municipal codes or other local regulations. Drivers must be cited under the  state vehicle code section, which specifies the penalties. This new law ensures  uniformity throughout the state.<\/li>\n<li>AB 2173 &#8211; Higher Fines &#8211; to fund emergency air-transportation  services, this law raises the cost of a moving violation ticket by $4. This new  surcharge will generate approximately $34 million per year and will remain in  effect until January 1, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>AB 2567 &#8211; Cameras for Street Sweepers &#8211; Local  agencies can use cameras on their street sweepers to photograph vehicles that  are parked on streets during sweeper days. Agencies are required to make public  announcements of the camera enforcement system 30 days in advance. Violators  will be issued warnings within the 30 day grace period.<\/li>\n<li>SB 535 &#8211; Car Pool Lanes &#8211; allows solo drivers in  hybrid vehicles with DMV-issued yellow carpool lane stickers to continue using the  HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes until July 2011. Additionally, certain  plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles can use the HOV lanes from  January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>AB 1601 &#8211; Drunk Drivers &#8211; on January 1, 2012  judges can revoke the driver&rsquo;s license for up to 10 years of any person  convicted of three or more DUIs in a 10 year period. (In 2008, there were  187,987 DUI convictions in CA, 9,164 of which were 3rd time  offenders within a 10 year period.)<\/li>\n<li>AB 1952 &#8211; Motorcycle Instruction Permit &#8211;  drivers younger than 21 years of age are required to successfully complete the  motorcycle safety course administered by the CHP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more detailed information on the new laws, please visit <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/media\/newsletter\/arrows.jpg?resize=12%2C8\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"8\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chp.ca.gov\/pdf\/media\/10-40.pdf\" class=\"linkCSS\">http:\/\/www.chp.ca.gov\/pdf\/media\/10-40.pdf<\/a> and also check out <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/media\/newsletter\/arrows.jpg?resize=12%2C8\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"8\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"linkCSS\"> www.dmv.ca.gov<\/a> for more DMV information and services.<\/p>\n<p>                          <em>-Kim  Cross<\/em>\n                          <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nnZN-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}