Vehicles: Sideshow Accountability and Community Safety Act

The law broadens what counts as a sideshow and creates stronger consequences when a sideshow speed exhibition injures someone or is repeated.

What the law does ​

• Defines a sideshow to include two or more people using any motor vehicle, including motorcycles and off-highway vehicles, to obstruct traffic or access for stunts, racing, speed exhibitions, or reckless driving.
• Sets sideshow speed-exhibition penalties at 24 hours to 90 days in county jail and/or a $355 to $1,000 fine.
• Increases penalties for sideshow speed exhibitions that cause bodily or serious injury, including possible state-prison punishment for specified serious injuries.
• Requires higher minimum jail terms and fines for a repeat sideshow speed-exhibition conviction within five years, with further increases when injury results.
• Allows impoundment for one to 30 days, at the registered owner's expense, of a vehicle used in a sideshow speed exhibition or speed contest.
• Starting January 1, 2029, allows courts to suspend a sideshow offender's driving privilege for 90 days to six months, subject to hardship-based restricted driving.
• Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to record court-ordered driving restrictions and place them on subsequently issued licenses during the restriction period.

Who it affects ​

• Drivers who perform speed exhibitions during sideshows or street takeovers.
• People who use vehicles to block traffic or access as part of a sideshow.
• Registered owners of vehicles used in covered sideshow violations.
• People injured by a sideshow speed exhibition.