(a) Upon completion by the department of a safety study and a determination by the director, with the concurrence of the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, that truck traffic attributable to the United States-Mexico border crossing at Tecate in San Diego County constitutes a safety hazard to schoolbus operations, the department shall determine methods of mitigating the safety hazard, including, but not limited to, prohibiting the use of truck tractor-trailer combinations on Route 94 from the communities of Boulevard and Manzanita to the junction of Route 54 (traveling east and west) during the hours of 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on those days that public school districts utilize that portion of Route 94 to operate schoolbuses, as defined in Section 545 of the Vehicle Code.
(b) Any person operating a vehicle on Route 94 in violation of this section is guilty of an infraction punishable as provided in Section 42001 of the Vehicle Code.
(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 426, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)