money at all. Every penny that the
Fund currently receives will still be
there after AB2710 passes. My bill
simply attempts to get people to obey
existing law. And the way this measure is designed, if every person obeys
the green sticker requirement, then
practically speaking, there would be
no change to the way the current
OHV program operates.
Once again, thank you for writing.
MIKE ROOS
Majority Floor Leader
Assembly, California Legislative
Sacramento, CA
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It is not often that one of the corporate giants selling motorcycles in this
country has ever hustled their butt for
me, but I was recently treated to a
pleasant surpirse by Cagiva North
America.
A broken throttle cable recently
sidelined my 1985 Alazurra 650. In
three days I had a replacement but it
was not the same cable, though the
parts manual indicated it was. I called
Cagiva North America and left a
message. Later that day Brian in the
parts department returned my caB
and quickly decided I should send
him my new and old cables and my
throttle assembly. It turned out that I
had a different throttle assembly.
Within a week Cagiva had returned
my new throttle assembly and cable
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The service I received was friendly,
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motorcycle but have not received until
now. Thank you, Brian and Cagiva.
Please keep up the good work.
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number of vehicles actually registere
(those which purchase the "green
sticker") and those that are not registered. Those not re.gistered are estimated to be twice as many as those
obeying the law. As the result of the
study, I % of all of the gasoline taxes
collected by the State go into the
OHV Fund, specifically for promoting the sport, and enforcing the OHV
law.
Problems have arisen in recent
years, however, as the delicate balance struck between OHV supporters
and preservationists began to unravel.
AB2710 is an attempt to bring back
some common sense to the way California regulates OHV recreation.
Specifically, my bill will:
• Commission a new study of OHV
recreation. Supporters of the OHV
program insist that the I % figure is
too low, and opponents say it is too
high. I say let's find out for sure.
• Crack down on violators of the
green sticker registration requirement.
Currently, there is no minimum fine
if a person with a non-strut-legal
vehicle is caught riding without the
necessary registration permit, which
COSts only $20 every two years. (Strutlegal vehicles are not required to purchase green stickers.) My bill mandates a fine of $25 for the first offense,
and 50 for every offense thereafter.
• Create a new conservation and
enforcement subaccount within the
OHV Fund. This new subaccount
will receive all of the gas tax monies
that are transferred from the estimate
of non-street-legal vehicles that are
being ridden without a green sticker
(i.e. those being ridden illegally).
Thus, all of those owners of vehicles
that disobey the law by not being registered will directly be contributing
to a program that encourages land
perservation and OHV enforcement.
If these persons don't like their gas
tax monies going to conservation
and enforcement activities instead of
programs designed to promote OHV
riding, then let them go get the
required registration. That way, their
money will go toward buying new
land and constructing new OHV
trails.
As you can see, this bill will not
result in the OHV Fund losing any
,
,
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I have just returned from the public forum on the California Desen
Protection Act of 1986 (S2061) conducted by the Barstow Area Chamber
of Commerce. It was an excellenf
meeting conducted by Judge LeRoy
Simmons and all sides were heard.
The off-road community was well
represented and amounted to well
over half of the !l50-plus audience.
From their actions and conversa
tions during breaks the environmentalists have correctly sensed the. wind
has shifted. They realize they have
awakened a sleeping giant and can
no longer confront, in public forum,
the opposition (ex. USFS public hearings on The Draft Forest Plan for
Sequoia ational Forest). They are
changing the battleground. They are
concentrating their efforts behind the
scenes in lobbying and lette.r writing.
If the Senator from Maine likes the
Audubon Society and the Audubon
Society is for the CDP Act, then it
must be good!
During the forum Mr. Davis Scott,
Conservation director for the Sierra
Club, publicly acknowledged tha~
the Sierra Club, with help from other
environmentalistgroups, drafted Senate
Bill S2061. When did we elected them
to Congress?
During his prepared statement and
in a question-and-answer session that
followed, Mr. Scott stated the reason
for this was that they felt the administrative evaluation procedures and
compromises being worked out by
the BLM could not be controlled.
This bill proposes to add 10 million acres of instant wilderness and
new park lands to the Mojave Desert
and would upercede the administrative management roll of the BLM by
hard, fast, inflexible and unchangeable rules.
The California, Arizona and evada riders who use the East Mojave
Desert need your help. If only one out
of every 20 readers writes their Senator/Congressman recommending re"
jection of this bill, that's over 5000
letters.
As the Eastern Washington Dirt
Riders Association points out to their
members, if California goes, who's
next? Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Maine, Michigan ... ? Help the
cause. The battle is California but for
a battle lost, the war was lost.
Write today!
DION SALFEN
Westlake Village, CA
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