Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 182 or any other provision of law, money deposited into the account that is not subject to Article XIX of the California Constitution, including, but not limited to, money that is derived from the sale of documents, charges for misce…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the repayment date for the loan of one hundred thirty-five million dollars ($135,000,000) made from the State Highway Account to the General Fund pursuant to Item 2660-011-0042 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2009 is extended from …

(a) Upon the order of the Director of Finance, the Controller shall transfer the sum of one hundred seventy-three million dollars ($173,000,000) from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund to the General Fund. This transfer of money constitutes a loan under pa…

(a) The department may advance funds in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund to a local agency for all or a portion of the cost of a project approved for bond funding pursuant to Part 11.5 (commencing with Section 99600) of Division 10 of the Public Utilitie…

No funds from the State Highway Account shall be budgeted, allocated, or expended for any project which calls for any change in passenger train stations or loading platforms used by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation unless the change has been submitted to the National R…

The department shall set up and keep the accounts necessary to show all expenditures from the State Highway Account for the several purposes authorized or required by this article, and shall make and keep on file in the office of the department an annual statement showing all exp…

All money withdrawn from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund shall be withdrawn in the manner provided by law upon demands made by the department. The department may establish a revolving fund to be administered pursuant to Section 16400 of the Government C…

The director shall pay from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund that portion of the administrative expenses of the department that he determines, in consultation with the commisson, to have resulted from the functions of the department for purposes specifie…

Funds apportioned pursuant to Section 2106 may be expended for highway-oriented transportation studies requested by a state or federal agency. Any expenditure of funds apportioned pursuant to Section 2106 or 2107 by a county or city for the acquisition of rights-of-way or constru…

Whenever local entities are unable to agree upon the number and width of traffic lanes for a street or road proposed to be constructed by any such entity where such specifications will affect the uniform flow of traffic on a road or street from one such local entity to another, t…

There is hereby appropriated to the commission from the Motor Vehicle Fuel Fund an amount not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) annually for work done by the department in assisting the Controller in carrying out duties imposed upon his office in reviewing, approving or …

For the purpose of allocating State funds available for highway purposes the counties of the State are placed in these two groups: Group No. 1. All those counties not included in Group No. 2. Group No. 2. The counties of San Luis Obispo, Kern, Mono, Tulare, Inyo, Santa Barbara, V…

(a) All federal and state funds to be allocated by the commission, or expended by the department, for transportation improvements under Section 164, except for purposes of subdivisions (b) and (c) of that section, shall be programmed during the period commencing on July 1, 1997, …

None of the provisions of this article or of Section 825 shall apply to the expenditure of either state or federal funds necessary to replace or reconstruct any state highway damaged or destroyed as the result of disaster over a wide area, such as by enemy action, sabotage, flood…

(a) The Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund. The money in the account is hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the department for the purpose of funding seismic retrofit or replacement of the bridges listed in …

(a) The commission, with assistance from the department and regional agencies, shall maintain a long-term balance of shares, shortfalls, and surpluses for regional improvement programs. (b) The balance shall include all of the following: (1) Shares from the fund estimate for each…

The department may transfer or loan, or both, funds between the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Account in the State Transportation Fund and the State Highway Account for cash flow purposes to accomplish individual toll bridge seismic requirements. No funds may be transferred or loa…

(a) Except as authorized under subdivision (b), toll funds used as a credit toward the nonfederal share of any federal-aid highway project, as authorized under Section 120(j) of Title 23 of the United States Code, or private entity expenditures used for that purpose, as authorize…

The cost of maintenance of all toll bridges under the jurisdiction of the commission shall be paid out of money in the State Highway Account. (Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2004.)

(a) Maintenance expenditures on all toll facilities owned by the state shall, for accounting purposes, be classified as Category A or Category B expenditures. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the cost of maintenance of toll facilities in the geographic jurisdiction of …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The department has determined that in order to provide maximum safety for the traveling public and to ensure continuous and unimpeded operation of the state’s transportation network, six state-owned toll bridges are…

(a) If the department utilizes its authority under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 14550) of Part 5.3 of Division 3 of the Government Code to issue federal highway grant anticipation notes (GARVEE Bonds) from the state share of federal obligation authority to fund the projects…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it is the intent of the Legislature that the programming authorization described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (8) of subdivision (b) of Section 188.5 is available for any and all state-owned toll bridge retrofit projects identified …

(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that on August 16, 2004, the department reported to the Legislature that the funds identified in Section 188.5 are insufficient to complete the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program, including the replacement of the east span of the…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that in order to provide maximum safety for the traveling public and to ensure continuous and unimpeded operation of the state’s transportation network, the Antioch Bridge and the Dumbarton Bridge are each in need of a seismic safety retrofi…

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby continuously appropriated to the department for expenditure all amounts paid to the department by the Bay Area Toll Authority for the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement,…

Any expenses incurred in connection with any state highway under Article 4 (commencing with Section 2760) and Article 5 (commencing with Section 2780) of Chapter 5 of Title 1 of Part 3 of the Penal Code shall be paid from money in the State Highway Account available for the const…

(a) From the funds programmed pursuant to Section 188 for regional improvement projects, the commission shall approve programs and program amendments, so that funding is distributed to each county of County Group No. 1 and in each county of County Group No. 2 during the county sh…

(a) Beginning January 1, 2013, the commission shall allocate construction support costs for a project in the state transportation improvement program at the time of allocation of construction capital costs. (b) The commission shall require a supplemental project allocation reques…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, State Transportation District 12, consisting of the County of Orange, is hereby created. The district shall have a separate district organization, staff, and facilities in the county. (Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1050, Sec. 1. Effective…

Each annual proposed budget prepared pursuant to Section 165 shall include the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), which sum may include federal funds available for grade separation projects, for allocations to grade separation projects, in accordance with Chapter 10 (c…

Prior to each July 15, the department shall prepare and forward to the Controller a report identifying the amounts to be deducted from the allocations under Sections 2104 and 2107 as provided in Sections 2104.1 and 2107.6. The amounts reported shall be the amount of funds allocat…

Any city, city and county, or county may use funds allocated from the State Highway Account or the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund to finance the local governmental entity’s share of the cost of constructing protective facilities on all mainline grade cro…

In apportioning the State Highway Account money as required by this article, there shall be excluded, from the computations of moneys expended, any sums contributed by any person or governmental unit to pay any portion of the cost of constructing, improving, or maintaining any st…

The State Highway Account money allocated and available each year for state highways shall be expended by the department: (a) On the locations determined by the commission, to acquire the necessary real property or interests therein for, and to construct or improve to standards j…

Each annual proposed budget prepared pursuant to Section 165 shall include an amount recommended to be appropriated to the Transportation Planning and Development Account in the State Transportation Fund. The amount shall, to the extent possible, equal the pro rata share of the c…

It is the intent of the Legislature that each annual proposed budget prepared pursuant to Section 165 include state funds from the State Highway Account for the California Transportation Research and Innovation Program, in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 14450)…

The department shall exercise the same powers and duties with respect to State highways within cities as with respect to other State highways. (Added by Stats. 1935, Ch. 642.)

The commission may, by resolution, provide a plan under which the department may invest presently unneeded money in the State Highway Account in bonds or interest-bearing notes or obligations of the United States for which the faith and credit of the United States are pledged for…

The Controller shall, from time to time, determine whether any portion of the money or investment in the Department of Motor Vehicles Uncleared Collections Account in the Special Deposit Fund is not necessary for immediate use and, if so, the amount thereof shall thereupon be des…

(a) The department shall develop and implement a system of priorities for ranking the need for installation of noise attenuation barriers along freeways in the California freeway and expressway system. In establishing a priority system, the department shall give the highest consi…

If any city or county contributes at least 33 percent of the estimated cost of any soundwall project included for the first time in the state transportation improvement program in 1992 or in subsequent years, that project shall be given priority over all other soundwall projects …

(a) In the event of the destruction of any segment of a state highway due to a natural disaster, when that segment remains out of service for five years or more, the department may, for purposes of mitigating the effects of increased traffic and noise on alternate state highways,…

(a) The noise level produced by the traffic on, or by the construction of, a state freeway shall be measured in the classrooms, libraries, multipurpose rooms, and spaces used for pupil personnel services of a public or private elementary or secondary school if the rooms or spaces…

As used in Section 216, “spaces used for pupil personnel services” means rooms that are used primarily for counseling, testing, or similar type services involving the presence of pupils. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 969.)

(a) The department shall construct at least one demonstration noise attenuation barrier fabricated from rice straw upon meeting the conditions and requirements of this section. (b) Prior to construction of the barrier specified in subdivision (a), the department shall identify an…