{"data":{"id":"us-ca/veh-27400","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"VEH § 27400","heading":"","body":"A person operating a motor vehicle or bicycle may not wear a headset covering, earplugs in, or earphones covering, resting on, or inserted in, both ears. This prohibition does not apply to any of the following:\n(a) A person operating authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165.\n(b) A person engaged in the operation of either special construction equipment or equipment for use in the maintenance of any highway.\n(c) A person engaged in the operation of refuse collection equipment who is wearing a safety headset or safety earplugs.\n(d) A person wearing personal hearing protectors in the form of earplugs or molds that are specifically designed to attenuate injurious noise levels. The plugs or molds shall be designed in a manner so as to not inhibit the wearer’s ability to hear a siren or horn from an emergency vehicle or a horn from another motor vehicle.\n(e) A person using a prosthetic device that aids the hard of hearing.","path":["Vehicle Code - VEH","DIVISION 12. EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES [24000. - 28246.]","CHAPTER 5. Other Equipment [27000. - 28160.]","ARTICLE 3.5. Headsets and Earplugs [27400. - 27400.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"40d63661c22e130520f0f34e51eb747b5a79243992e04126382843f1ebba8237","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/veh-27375","next":"us-ca/veh-27425"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}