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2025 California Code
Vehicle Code - VEH
DIVISION 12 - EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES
CHAPTER 3 - Brakes
ARTICLE 4 - Vacuum Brakes
Section 26521.
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CA Veh Code § 26521 (2025)
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26521. Motor vehicles required to be equipped with power brakes and equipped with vacuum or vacuum-assisted brakes and motor vehicles used to tow vehicles equipped with vacuum brakes or vacuum-assisted brakes shall be equipped with either an audible or visible warning signal to indicate readily to the driver when the vacuum drops to eight inches of mercury and less. A vacuum gauge shall not be deemed to meet this requirement.
This section shall not apply to a two-axle motor truck operated singly nor to any motor vehicle manufactured prior to 1964.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 386.)
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