Veh. Code, § 9560 · Article 4. Payment of Fees
Veh. Code, § 9560
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) The department shall waive all penalties that may be due for late payment of registration renewal fees on a vehicle for any period during which the registered owner is deployed to a location outside of the state.
(b) (1) For the purposes of this section, “deployed” means being ordered to temporary military duty during a period when a Presidential Executive order specifies that the United States is engaged in combat or homeland defense and the registered owner is one of the following:
(A) A member of the armed forces.
(B) A member of the armed forces reserve or the National Guard who has been called to active duty or active service.
(2) “Deployed” does not include either of the following:
(A) Temporary duty for the sole purpose of training or processing.
(B) A permanent change of station.
(c) This section does not apply to a registered owner who applies for registration renewal more than 60 days after termination of his or her deployment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 188, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=9560.
- Text hash
- sha256 8fdaacf5abef3648a1fa03a9db54f57a012f8a183fb271c465206f1086563838
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.