Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

Roundabouts shall be included in the list of highway facility types that may be used for memorial or dedication signing as designated in the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, adopted pursuant to Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code. (Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 95,…

(a) The department shall amend the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices to allow supplemental destination signs for museums that meet all the following: (1) Have a minimum annual attendance of 50,000 persons, regardless if the museum is in a major metropolitan are…

(a) The Department of Transportation shall work with the Native American Heritage Commission, the California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names, the Counties of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, and California tribes local to, or historically located along, Route 210, to identi…

The department may, when it deems it necessary, replace or cause to be replaced any city limit road sign. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1273.)

The department shall, in the next revision of the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, allow supplemental destination signs for a state special school that is located within five miles of the highway, regardless of whether the state special school is located in a…

The department shall submit all plans and specifications for any bridge or other structure across any river or other drainage channel or basin subject to the jurisdiction of the Reclamation Board for approval in accordance with the provisions of the Reclamation Board Act, and sha…

The department shall replace or cause to be replaced any city limit road sign if all the following conditions exist: (a) If the legislative body of a city requests the replacement. (b) If the request is based upon a substantial change of population evidenced by a special or gener…

The department may file for record with the State Lands Commission such maps as are necessary to furnish an accurate description of any ungranted swamp, overflow, tide, or submerged lands, the bed of any navigable channel, stream, river, creek, lake, bay, or inlet, or other sover…

The department shall design, place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained at appropriate places along state highways signs which indicate the maximum penalty which may be prescribed for throwing or discharging any litter or any flammable or glowing substance from any v…

(a) The department shall adopt rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on freeways located in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific roadside businesses offering fuel, food, lodging, electric vehicle charging facilities, camping services, approv…

(a) The department may design, place, and maintain, or cause to be designed, placed, and maintained, along state highways, signs to inform motorists of rail transportation services which receive public funding, in whole or in part, unless the sign would result in incurring the pe…

(a) The department shall adopt rules and regulations to allow, in rural areas, the placement, on interstate and primary highways near public exits, of guide signs indicating the existence, within one-half mile of that exit, of a fire station which is open 24 hours each day of the…

(a) In the name of the people of the State of California, the department may acquire by eminent domain any property necessary for state highway purposes. (b) For any property that the department is acquiring by, or under threat of, eminent domain, the department shall, in a timel…

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Multimodal” means transportation options within a transportation corridor, including, but not limited to, highways, rail lines, pedestrian walkways and bike lanes, and commuter transit services. (2…

Subject to Sections 1240.670, 1240.680, and 1240.690 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the real property which the department may acquire by eminent domain, or otherwise, includes any property dedicated to park purposes, however it may have been dedicated, when the commission has d…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department should have a reasonable opportunity to acquire properties needed for transportation projects. (b) Whenever the department determines that a specific parcel of private property will or may be required for the right-of-wa…

The department may acquire, either in fee or in any lesser estate or interest, any real property that it considers necessary for state highway purposes. Real property for these purposes includes, but is not limited to, real property considered necessary for any of the following p…

(a) (1) For purposes of environmental mitigation pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 104, the department may create an endowment or enter one or more agreements with the transferee of an environmental mitigation property or another party or parties to provide funding for the e…

The Department of Transportation shall, not later than the first day of November following the close of any fiscal year, pay the rents computed pursuant to Section 104.6 to the county in which such real property is situated. The Department of Transportation shall certify to the D…

(a) Upon a finding that the action would not adversely affect the activities of the department, the department may lease, in whole or in part, property owned by it in the block bounded by First Street, Main Street, Second Street, and Los Angeles Street in the City of Los Angeles …

(a) The department may lease to public agencies or private entities for any term not to exceed 99 years the use of areas above or below state highways, subject to any reservations, restrictions, and conditions that it deems necessary to ensure adequate protection to the safety an…

(a) The department shall act as agent for the payment of possessory interest taxes due from persons to whom the department leases property of a type described in subdivision (e). (b) The department shall annually provide a current list of all such property located in each county …

Whenever land has been acquired pursuant to former Section 104.1 or pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 1240.410) of Chapter 3 of Title 7 of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the department may, in its discretion, lease to a local agency for park purposes all or a…

(a) Any airspace under a freeway, or real property acquired for highway purposes, in the City and County of San Francisco, that is not excess property, shall be offered for lease on a right of first refusal by the department to the city and county or a political subdivision of th…

(a) The department may provide information regarding, and may lease, airspace under the interchange of Route 4 and Route 5 in San Joaquin County and on the northeast corner of Route 101 and De La Vina Street in the County of Santa Barbara, to a city, county, or other political su…

(a) Real property in the City of San Diego between 17th Street and the west side of Route 5 between the southbound onramp and the offramp near J Street, which was acquired for highway purposes and which is not excess property, may be leased by the department to a city, county, or…

(a) The excess property owned by the department described in subdivision (b) that is leased until June 30, 2005, to the Century Housing Corporation, a nonprofit corporation, and used for job training and placement purposes, shall continue to be leased to that party until June 30,…

If property is provided through donation or at less than fair market value to the department for state highway purposes, or purchased with funds provided by a local agency, the donor or seller may reserve the right to develop the property, but any development of the property shal…

(a) (1) The department may lease airspace under the interchange of Route 4 and Sutter Street in San Joaquin County to any city, county, or other political subdivision, or any state agency, for feeding program purposes. The department may provide information to those entities rega…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Transportation shall, consistent with Article XIX of the California Constitution, transfer to the Department of Parks and Recreation the real property in the City of San Diego between Taylor Street and Wallace Street and betwee…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall declare that the Pedro Point excess property identified in Director’s Deed DD–028801–01–01, also known as the “Disney Lot,” is surplus state property acquired by the expenditure of tax revenues and located in the coastal zon…

(a) Any airspace under a freeway, or real property acquired for highway purposes, in the City of Oakland, that is not excess property, may be offered for lease on a right of first refusal by the department to the city, or to a political subdivision of the city, for purposes of an…

(a) The department may lease the real property located at 4747 Pacific Highway in the City of San Diego, department parcel number 760-216-19-00, which was acquired for highway purposes and is not excess property, to a city or county, a political subdivision of a city or county, o…

(a) (1) Any airspace under a freeway, or real property acquired for highway purposes, in the City of Los Angeles, that is not excess property, may be offered for lease on a right of first refusal by the department to the city, or to a political subdivision of the city, for purpos…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Federal Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program” means the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program established pursuant to Section 11509 of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58)…

(a) The department may make available for lease airspace or real property for the purposes described in this section if it determines that the airspace or real property is available for rent and that the airspace or real property has independent site access separate from an acces…

Whenever the right of occupancy of any person upon national forest or national park lands is terminated because of the proposed construction of a state highway across such lands, the department shall, in connection with the construction of the highway, acquire, by purchase or con…

The director may execute all deeds or conveyances necessary to convey any real property or interest therein to be sold or exchanged under the provisions of this code. He may insert in any such deed or conveyance such conditions, covenants, exceptions and reservations as in his op…

The authority conferred by this code to acquire real property for state highway purposes includes authority to acquire for future needs. Structures maintained or allowed to remain on property which has been acquired, or is acquired in the future, for future highway needs shall be…

(a) Unless otherwise provided by statute, when requested by a city, county, or special district, the department shall provide information regarding, and shall lease, unoccupied, unimproved property that is held for future highway purposes to the city, county, or special district …

The department may retain in its records all deeds, conveyances, and other evidences of title to or interests in real property acquired by the department under the provisions of this code. The Secretary of State and any other State officer or department having custody of any such…

None of the deeds, conveyances or other evidences of title to or interests in real property acquired by the department under the provisions of this code for highway purposes, need be recorded by the Secretary of State. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 804.)

The department may construct and maintain stock trails approximately paralleling any State highway and may retain and maintain for stock trails the right of way of any State highway which is superseded by relocation. The department may likewise designate as a stock trail any high…

Whenever in its opinion the public convenience and necessity require it for State highway purposes, the department may enter into a cooperative agreement: (a) To construct a bridge across any river, stream, or inlet of the sea. (b) To reconstruct or replace an existing, privately…

Any such agreement may be: (a) With any person for the construction of a new bridge and the use of any such bridge thereafter jointly by such person and the public. (b) With the owner of any existing bridge for the reconstruction thereof, or for the replacement thereof by a new b…

Any agreement made under the authority of sections 106 and 107 may provide: (a) Either for apportionment of the expense of any such construction, reconstruction, replacement, improvement, or maintenance between such owner or person and the State, or for the surrender to the State…