2007 California Public Resources Code Chapter 8.4. Local Vehicle Fleet

CA Codes (prc:25725-25726)

25725.  When awarding a vehicle procurement contract, every city,
county, city and county, and special district, including a school
district and a community college district may evaluate and score fuel
economy, in addition to other life-cycle factors, in choosing
passenger cars or light-duty trucks, or both, with the lowest
life-cycle costs.



25726.  (a) When awarding a vehicle procurement contract, every
city, county, city and county, and special district, including a
school district and a community college district may require that 75
percent of the passenger cars or light-duty trucks, or both, to be
acquired be energy-efficient vehicles.
   (b) "Energy-efficient vehicle" means either of the following:
   (1) A vehicle that meets California's Super Ultra-Low Emission
Vehicle (SULEV) standard for exhaust emissions and the federal
inherently low-emission vehicle (ILEV) evaporative emission standard,
as defined in Part 88 (commencing with Section 88.101-94) of Title
40 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
   (2) A hybrid vehicle or an alternative fuel vehicle that meets
California's advanced technology partial zero-emission vehicle (AT
PZEV) standard for criteria pollutant emissions.