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2019 California Code
Vehicle Code - VEH
DIVISION 17 - OFFENSES AND PROSECUTION
CHAPTER 3 - Illegal Evidence
ARTICLE 2 - Civil Actions
Section 40831.
Universal Citation: CA Veh Code § 40831 (2019)
40831.
In any civil action proof of speed in excess of any prima facie limit declared in Section 22352 at a particular time and place does not establish negligence as a matter of law but in all such actions it shall be necessary to establish as a fact that the operation of a vehicle at the excess speed constituted negligence.
(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
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