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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY The California Legislature has charged the California Highway Patrol (CHP) with the responsibility to regulate the safe operation of certain types of vehicles. Those vehicles are listed in Section 34500 of the California Vehicle Code (CVC), as follows: 34500. The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall regulate the safe operation of the following vehicles: (a) Motortrucks of three or more axles which are more than 6,000 pounds unladen weight. (b) Truck tractors. k (c) Buses, schoolbuses, youth buses, and general public paratransit vehicles. (d) Trailers and semitrailers designed or used for the transportation of more than 10 persons, and the towing motor vehicle. (e) Trailers and semitrailers, excluding camp trailers, trailer coaches, and utility trailers, pole or pipe dollies, and logging dollies used in combination with vehicles listed in subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d). This subdivision does not apply Ito camp trailers, trailer coaches, and utility .trailers. (f) Any combination of a motortruck and any vehicle or vehicles set forth in subdivision (e) that exceeds 40 feet in length when coupled together. (g) Any truck, or any combination of a truck and any other vehicle, transporting hazardous materials. (h) Manufactured homes which, when moved upon the highway, are required to be moved under a permit as specified in Section 35780 or 35790. (i.} A park trailer, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 799.24 of the Civil Code, which, when moved upon a highway, is required to be moved under a permit pursuant to Section 35780. (j) Any, other motortruck not specified in subdivisions (a) F to (h),,inclusive, that is regulated by the Public Utilities Commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission, but only for matters eelatang to hours of sevice and logbooks of drivers. r 1—I HPG. 84.6 � i