What is 4000a VC of the California Vehicle code?

Answer 1

Section 4000(a) of the California Vehicle Code requires all vehicles on the roadway to be properly registered. Full text of the section follows:

4000. (a) (1) No person shall drive, move, or leave standing upon a

highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor

vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly,

unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid under

this code or registered under the permanent trailer identification

program, except that an off-highway motor vehicle which displays an

identification plate or device issued by the department pursuant to

Section 38010 may be driven, moved, or left standing in an offstreet

public parking facility without being registered or paying

registration fees.

(2) For purposes of this subdivision, "offstreet public parking

facility" means either of the following:

(A) Any publicly owned parking facility.

(B) Any privately owned parking facility for which no fee for the

privilege to park is charged and which is held open for the common

public use of retail customers.

(3) This subdivision does not apply to any motor vehiclestored in

a privately owned offstreet parking facility by, or with the express

permission of, the owner of the privately owned offstreet parking

facility.