Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

Published notice shall be made pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 630.)

Publication of notice of hearing shall be completed at least 10 days prior to the date of hearing specified therein. (Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 630.)

Posted notices, other than of hearings for the formation of an assessment district or for the annexation of territory to an existing district, shall be made by posting upon any official bulletin board customarily used by the local agency or legislative body for the posting of not…

Prior to levying a new assessment pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 22585), the legislative body shall cause notice of the public hearing to be given pursuant to Section 53753 of the Government Code. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 262, Sec. 53. Effective January 1, 200…

Whenever, in the opinion of the commission and of the department, it is necessary or desirable to do so, the commission shall authorize and direct the department to build or acquire for, and in the name of, the state any or all of the following: (a) Toll bridges, tubes, or other …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may include, in any issue of revenue bonds, funds sufficient to finance the establishment of a ferry system as authorized by Section 30356, including the purchase or construction of ferry boats, wharves, docks, ferry slip…

Notwithstanding Section 30100 or any other provision of law, no bridge or other highway crossing shall be constructed across San Francisco Bay by the commission, the department, or the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, except to replace bridges or highway c…

Except as otherwise provided by statute for the commission and the Bay Area Toll Authority, the commission shall fix the rates of toll and other charges for all toll bridges, tubes, or other toll highway crossings acquired or built pursuant to this chapter. Notwithstanding this s…

The commission may permit authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165 of the Vehicle Code, responding to or returning from mutual aid calls or other emergencies, and other vehicles owned by any public agency when called upon to perform emergency work on the property …

The commission shall grant toll-free passage on all toll bridges, tubes, and other toll highway crossings under its jurisdiction to members of the California Highway Patrol on duty. Members of the California Highway Patrol, in all cases while on duty, are persons directly connect…

(a) The commission shall grant toll free passage on all toll bridges, tubes, and other toll highway crossings under its jurisdiction to vehicles in a funeral procession of a person who died while on active duty with the armed services of the United States. (b) The commission shal…

(a) The commission may grant toll-free and reduced-rate passage on all toll bridges under its jurisdiction to class I vehicles occupied by three or more persons, including the driver, and to buses. For bridges within the area under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportat…

Except as provided in Section 30102.5, the commission, in establishing toll charges, shall give consideration to the cost of operating and maintaining any particular toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, including the cost of insurance, the cost of operating and maintaining…

Consistent with Section 30918, the Bay Area Toll Authority shall fix the rates of the toll charge, except as provided in Sections 30921 and 30923, and may grant reduced-rate and toll-free passage on the state-owned toll bridges within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transpor…

Toll charges so fixed may be changed from time to time as conditions warrant. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

The commission shall prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any person, or private, public, or municipal corporation, or any district or political subdivision may do any of the following: (a) Transport any person or property over any toll bridge or other toll highway cross…

The commission may also grant permits to and enter into contracts with steam, electric, bus, railroad, and other transportation companies, public or private, and with any municipal or public corporation, public utility district, or political subdivision for the use of any toll br…

The grant of any such permit or the execution of any such contract by the California Transportation Commission shall not relieve any transportation company or corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission from the duty of obtaining any certificate of …

In any such contract or permit, the commission may authorize the transportation company or corporation, district, or political subdivision providing transportation to use the transportation facilities and additional transportation facilities of the commission upon such terms and …

Every contract which the commission enters into with, and every permit which it grants to, any person, or private, public, or municipal corporation, any district or political subdivision, for the transportation of persons or property by such person, or private, public, or municip…

No privilege, permit, or contract right acquired by any such person, private, public, or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision, with regard to the transport of persons or property over any such toll bridge or other toll highway crossing or with regard to use o…

The commission, in behalf of the State, by itself or its agents or assigns, or through the department or its agents or assigns, may operate the transportation facilities of any toll bridge or other highway crossing constructed or acquired pursuant to this chapter and the addition…

The commission, the officials thereof, and all state officials may do such acts and make such agreements not inconsistent with law as are necessary or desirable in connection with the duties and powers conferred upon them respectively by law regarding the construction, maintenanc…

The department and commission shall consider the inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian facilities on each new toll bridge designed and constructed pursuant to this division, including appropriate connections thereto. Such facilities shall be included on each such new bridge if the …

(a) The commission may utilize net revenues from toll bridges in order to finance research on high technology motion control devices to be used on the bridges. (b) If the Metropolitan Transportation Commission allocates toll bridge net revenues as defined in Section 30884, it may…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no toll shall be imposed on the passage of a pedestrian, a bicycle, or a personal micromobility device, as defined in Section 1940.41 of the Civil Code, over any state-owned bridge, on which the travel of pedestrians, bicycles, or person…

Every improvement area established prior to January 1, 1990, pursuant to the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1979 (former Part 6 (commencing with Section 36500) of this division) is hereby declared valid and effective and is unaffected by the repeal of that law, but …

This part provides an alternative method of financing certain improvements and activities. The provisions of this part shall not affect or limit any other provisions of law authorizing or providing for the furnishing of improvements or activities or the raising of revenue for the…

The department shall have full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. The department is authorized and directed to lay out and construct all state highways between the termini designated by law and…

The powers and duties enumerated in this section are intended to give the department broader authority to recruit and retain qualified civil engineers. (a) The department shall develop and implement a recruitment and incentive program for highway engineer positions which may incl…

The department shall improve and maintain the state highways, including all traversable highways which have been adopted or designated as state highways by the commission, as provided in this code. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 436.)

(a) The department shall perform construction inspection services for projects on or interfacing with the state highway system authorized pursuant to Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 6820) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code. The department shall use departmen…

(a) The Clean California Local Grant Program of 2021 is hereby established, to be administered by the department, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of allocating grants to local and regional public agencies, transit agencies, and tribal go…

(a) The Clean California State Beautification Program of 2021 is hereby established, to be administered by the department, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of beautifying and cleaning up state highways. (b) It is the intent of the Legislatur…

(a) The department may use job order contracting to construct projects through the Clean California State Beautification Program of 2021 as follows: (1) The department shall establish a procedure to prequalify job order contractors and shall prepare a set of documents for each jo…

(a) The department may enter into an agreement to accept funds, materials, equipment, or services from any person for maintenance or roadside enhancement, including the cleanup and abatement of litter, of a section of a state highway. The department and the sponsoring person may …

The department shall, within its maintenance programs relating to litter cleanup and abatement, assign a high priority to litter deposited along state highway segments adjoining storm drains, streams, rivers, waterways, beaches, the ocean, and other environmentally sensitive area…

(a) The department shall, within its maintenance program, establish procedures for the removal and disposal of animal carcasses on state highways. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, prohibitions on the possession and transportation of e…

(a) On or before December 31, 2025, the department, in coordination with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, shall evaluate the issues and policies impeding development of land within department-owned rights-of-w…

The department may do any act necessary, convenient or proper for the construction, improvement, maintenance or use of all highways which are under its jurisdiction, possession or control. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 436.)

(a) The department shall update guidance by July 1, 2021, to specify the appropriate use of positive protection measures, including, but not limited to, automated flagger assistance devices, buffer lanes, impact attenuator vehicles, and temporary barriers, with the goal of isolat…

Where practical or desirable, the department shall, along any highway under its jurisdiction, possession, or control, replace trees that have been destroyed or removed because of projects undertaken to widen the highway. Money from the State Highway Account available for the wide…

(a) The department shall do both of the following: (1) Discontinue further water intensive freeway landscaping and use drought resistant landscaping whenever feasible, taking into consideration such factors as erosion control and fire retardant needs. (2) Eliminate any dependency…

Where a city street or county road abuts upon real property acquired by the state for freeway purposes, the department may contribute toward the cost of construction of the half of such street or road that directly fronts or abuts upon such property if such street or road was est…

The department shall install, in all tunnels and underpasses on state highways within metropolitan areas where the tunnel or underpass is of sufficient length to impede radio reception, wires, or other devices which will sustain reception of broadcasts by radios in vehicles trave…

At such locations as shall be determined by the department to be appropriate, screening shall be installed and maintained on state freeway overpasses on which pedestrians are allowed, in order to prevent objects from being dropped or thrown upon vehicles passing underneath. First…