AB 1206: Vehicles: impoundment: pilot program.

Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt an ordinance declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject to seizure and an impoundment of up to 30 days if the vehicle is used in the commission or attempted commission of the crimes of pimping, pandering, and soliciting, or agreeing to engage in, or engaging in, any act of prostitution, or illegal dumping of commercial quantities of waste matter upon a public or private highway or road, and the owner or operator of the vehicle had a prior conviction for the same offense within the past 3 years.

This bill would authorize the Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, and Sacramento to conduct a 24-month pilot program in which law enforcement officers may remove a vehicle used in the commission, or attempted commission, of pimping, pandering, or solicitation of prostitution. The bill would require each of these cities, if they elect to implement the pilot program, to take specified actions, including, among others, offering a diversion program to prostitutes cited or arrested in the course of the pilot program. The bill would require any ordinance adopted by each of these cities to include specified procedural guidelines for the removal and retrieval of vehicles. The bill would require each of these cities, within 6 months of the completion of the pilot program, to issue a report, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2022.