Veh. Code, § 312 · Division 1. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
Veh. Code, § 312
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The term “drug” means any substance or combination of substances, other than alcohol, which could so affect the nervous system, brain, or muscles of a person as to impair, to an appreciable degree, his ability to drive a vehicle in the manner that an ordinarily prudent and cautious man, in full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care, would drive a similar vehicle under like conditions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1530.
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