California Vehicle Code

§ 1808

VEH § 1808 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Except where a specific provision of law prohibits the disclosure of records or information or provides for confidentiality, all records of the department relating to the registration of vehicles, other information contained on an application for a driver’s license, abstracts of convictions, and abstracts of accident reports required to be sent to the department in Sacramento, except for abstracts of accidents where, in the opinion of a reporting officer, another individual was at fault, shall be open to public inspection during office hours. All abstracts of accident reports shall be available to law enforcement agencies and courts of competent jurisdiction.

(b)The department shall make available or disclose abstracts of convictions and abstracts of accident reports required to be sent to the department in Sacramento, as described in subdivision (a), if the date of the occurrence is not later than the following:

(1)Ten years for a violation pursuant to Section 23140, 23152, or 23153.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 505, Sec. 8. (SB 485) Effective January 1, 2020.