Any forklift truck which is designed primarily for loading and unloading and for stacking materials and is operated upon a highway only for the purpose of transporting products or material across a highway in the loading, unloading or stacking process, and is in no event operated along a highway for a greater distance than one-quarter mile is exempt from registration.
Cal. Veh. Code § 4013
Vehicles Subject to Registration
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Davis v. Pine Mountain Lumber Co. (1969)
Most recently applied in California Packing Corp. v. Transport Indemnity Co. (August 1969)
Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.