Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

The department may enter into major damage mitigation contracts to perform major damage repairs and operations on state highways when caused by sudden, unforeseen events such as storms, landslides, flooding, high surf, earthquakes or other geological action, or civil unrest. Thes…

(a) The contracts referred to in Sections 135, 136, and 136.1 are not subject to the State Contract Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code). Except for emergency work of the type described in subdivision (b), whenever the estimated a…

(a) The department may enter into contracts not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the leasing and renting of operated heavy highway equipment for state highway maintenance purposes, which contracts are not subject to the State Contract Act pursuant to subdivisi…

The department shall determine the kind, quality, and extent of all highway work done under its control, and may prepare and approve all plans, specifications, and estimates for all such work. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

The design of, the drafting of specifications for, and the inspection and approval of state highway structures shall be by civil engineers licensed pursuant to the Professional Engineers Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700), Division 3, Business and Professions Code). Th…

The department may employ an attorney at law and such assistant attorneys as are necessary, said attorney to act as the attorney and legal adviser of the department in all highway matters. No contract, relating to highways, awarded by the department shall be binding on the State …

The director or the Chief Engineer of the department may require verbal or written reports from any officer, assistant, or employee of the department regarding state highway matters with which such officer, assistant, or employee is engaged. Any officer, assistant, or employee wh…

The department may establish and maintain shops for the construction, repair, and servicing of any equipment owned or used by the department. The department may purchase and supply such materials and parts, and furnish such labor, as is necessary in the construction, repair, and …

Effective June 30, 2006, the Equipment Service Fund in the State Treasury is abolished and all moneys in the fund shall be transferred to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. Any outstanding liabilities and encumbrances of the Equipment Service Fund as of J…

The department may do anything, including the prosecution of any action, necessary to collect any amounts owing to the State as a result of any activity of the department, and may settle any of such claims with or without court action. (Added by Stats. 1937, Ch. 931.)

In addition to the other powers relating to state highways granted to it by law, the department may do all of the following: (a) Make investigations to place, at the service of the state, the most approved methods of highway construction, improvement, and maintenance. (b) Compile…

All expense incurred in carrying out the objects of section 141 is part of the administrative expense of the department. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

(a) (1) “Best value” means a value determined by objective criteria, including, but not limited to, price, features, functions, life-cycle costs, and other criteria deemed appropriate by the department or the regional transportation agency. (2) “Contracting entity or lessee” mean…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the demonstration toll road project known as State Highway Route 125 (SR 125) in the County of San Diego, authorized pursuant to authority granted to the department by Chapter 107 of the Statutes of 1989, as subsequently amended by …

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Authorized agreement” means either of the following types of agreements: (A) An agreement whereby the rail entity assists the department in defining a feasible project and negotiates fair and reasonable t…

The department is authorized to divide or separate any state highway into separate roadways, wherever there is particular danger to the traveling public of collision between vehicles proceeding in opposite directions or from cross traffic, by constructing curbs, central dividing …

No state highway shall be divided as provided in Section 144 in such manner as to prevent traffic on any city street or county highway which such state highway intersects from crossing such state highway until after thirty (30) days’ notice thereof has been given by the departmen…

The department is authorized to lay out and construct local service roads on and along any state highway where there is particular danger to the traveling public of collision due to vehicles entering the highway from the side thereof and to divide and separate any service road fr…

Any public agency having responsibility for the planning and development within a region of this state of public transportation systems may, with the approval of the commission, use the airspace over or under any existing state freeway in that region, or any portion other than th…

(a) The department may construct, maintain, and operate fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities along the state highway system when those facilities would reduce motor vehicle traffic congestion or improve highway safety. Those facilities may include child care proj…

The director shall, without supplanting any other program required to be administered by the department or redirecting funds allocated to other programs, restart program efforts in District 7 of the department to develop and implement additional shared use agreements for public u…

The department may construct and maintain transit related highway facilities along the state highway system. Those facilities may include, but are not limited to, bus turn-outs, passenger loading areas, passenger benches and shelters, and special traffic control devices. For purp…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Monterey-Salinas Transit District and the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District may conduct a transit bus-only program using the shoulders of certain highways in the state highway system within the areas served by the transit…

The department may construct exclusive or preferential lanes for buses only or for buses and other high-occupancy vehicles, and may authorize or permit such exclusive or preferential use of designated lanes on existing highways that are part of the State Highway System. Prior to …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) may conduct, administer, and operate a value pricing and transit development program on the Interstate Highway Route 15 (I-15) high-…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) may conduct, administer, and operate a value pricing and transit development program on the State Highway Route 5 in managed lanes s…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, created pursuant to Section 130806 of the Public Utilities Code, may conduct, administer, and operate a value-pricing program …

The Highway Toll Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund for the management of funds received by the department for toll facilities authorized pursuant to Section 149.7 and operated by the department. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys…

(a) VTA may apply to the commission pursuant to Section 149.7 to conduct, administer, and operate any facility or program described in subdivision (a) of that section to be located on State Highway Route 101 and the portion of State Highway Route 280 north of its junction with St…

(a) The department shall report to the transportation policy committees of the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on or before January 1, 2020, on the feasibility and appropriateness of limiting the use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes to high-occ…

(a) On or before January 1, 2026, the director shall adopt a transit policy to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities and transit stops on the state highway system. (b) The policy described in subdivision (a) shall be developed in consultation with relevant stake…

The department may undertake the construction of exclusive or preferential lane facilities pursuant to a cooperative agreement with any public or private agency that provides mass transit services. Such cooperative agreement shall establish such geometric design standards, schedu…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) may conduct, administer, and operate a value pricing and transit development demonstration program on a maximum of two transport…

(a) (1) (A) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the Sunol Smart Carpool Lane Joint Powers Authority (SSCLJPA) or the Alameda County Transportation Commission may conduct, administer, and operate a value pricing high-occupa…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 149, 149.7, and 30800, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) created by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Act (Part 12 (commencing with Section 100000) of Division 10 of the Public…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800, a regional transportation agency, as defined in subdivision (k), or the department may apply to the commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll lanes or other toll facilities, including the administration and operation of a va…

(a) Pursuant to Section 149.7, the Legislature hereby authorizes a value pricing and transit program involving high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes to be developed and operated on State Highway Route 15 in Riverside County by the Riverside County Transportation Commission, as one of t…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.5 of the Vehicle Code, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) may conduct, administer, and operate a value-pricing and transit development program involving high-occupancy to…

When the department, in cooperation with rapid transit districts, recommends that mass public transportation facilities should be located along a proposed freeway corridor in order to establish a planned balanced transportation system, the commission shall consider this recommend…

The department may make such regulations as may be required in the interests of public safety governing the use of any express highway or additional facilities constructed as provided in this article for the purpose of loading or unloading of passengers. Nothing in this article o…

The department may permit the placing of, and cooperate in the planning for, emergency water hydrants on or adjacent to state freeway rights-of-way wherever a public water system is available. The placing and maintenance of the hydrants shall be the responsibility of local agenci…

The department may place and maintain or cooperate with local agencies or others in the placing and maintenance of emergency telephones or other communication facilities on or adjacent to state freeway rights-of-way. (Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 841.)

The department shall encourage the construction and development by counties of portions of the county highways as official county scenic highways and may furnish to the counties any information or other assistance which will aid the counties in the construction or development of …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 154 or any other provision of law and subject to subdivision (b), if the department determines that the County of Los Angeles is in compliance with the standards developed and established pursuant to Section 261 as to the Malibu Canyon-Las Virgenes Hig…

The department may accept any gift of money or property from any person or group for the purpose of acquiring property for, and establishing and maintaining as a memorial to any person or group, a place adjacent to any state highway in the state scenic highway system established …

The commission, to the extent constitutionally permitted and if it determines that such actions constitute a highway purpose, may allocate funds from the State Highway Account to match on an equal basis the value of any gifts offered and accepted by the department for deposit in …