Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority granted to the Department of Transportation under this act is restricted to the specific program for which funds are appropriated in Item 2660-306-0942 of the Budget Act of 2008, and that the amount of State Highway Account f…

The department, through the Treasurer and the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, may issue Clean Renewable Energy Bonds for purposes of financing the acquisition and installation of solar energy systems, and related appurtenances theret…

(a) The net proceeds of bonds issued under this article shall be deposited in the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds Subaccount, which is hereby established as a special trust fund in the Special Deposit Fund created pursuant to Section 16370 of the Government Code. (b) On or before Ju…

(a) In conjunction with the issuance of bonds pursuant to Section 157.1, the department may, until January 1, 2014, enter into lease-purchase agreements, lease agreements, or similar agreements with the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority…

The solar energy systems funded pursuant to this article may utilize, and shall comply with, either the net energy metering program allowable under Section 2827 of the Public Utilities Code or the feed-in-tariff program allowable under Section 399.20 of the Public Utilities Code.…

On or before March 1 of each fiscal year, and until maturity of the bonds issued pursuant to this article, the department shall report to the budget committees of each house of the Legislature with regard to the issuance of bonds and the acquisition and installation of solar ener…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Connectivity area” includes any of the following: (1) An area identified by any federal or state agency that meets the needs for a special status species pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department review the full extent of the state highway system, as currently maintained, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and with opportunities for the public to provide data input for consideration, to deve…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), for any project on the state highway system located in a connectivity area beginning the project initiation phase on or after July 1, 2025, that adds a traffic lane or that has the potential to significantly impair wildlife connectiv…

On or before July 1, 2025, the department shall update appropriate design guidance, including the Highway Design Manual, to incorporate design concepts for wildlife passage features and related standard plans and specifications as appropriate. (Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 964, Sec.…

(a) The Transportation Wildlife Connectivity Remediation Program is hereby established to be administered by the department, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, for the purposes of improving wildlife connectivity across transportation systems in connectivity…

(a) The department shall submit a report to the relevant policy committees and the budget committees of the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on or before July 1, 2028, on the implementation of this article. The report shall include recommendati…

The Legislature, through the enactment of this section, intends to establish a policy for the use of all transportation funds that are available to the state, including the State Highway Account, the Public Transportation Account, and federal funds. For the purposes of this secti…

(a) Funds made available for transportation capital improvement projects under subdivision (e) of Section 163 shall be programmed and expended for the following program categories: (1) Twenty-five percent for interregional improvements. (2) Seventy-five percent for regional impro…

(a) Federal funds derived from apportionments made to the state under Section 1101(a)(11) of the federal Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU; P.L. 109-59) for the coordinated border infrastructure program established un…

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 1. Route 2, between the north urban limits of Los Angeles-Long Beach and Route 138. Route 4, between the east urban limits of Antioch-Pittsburg …

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 12. Route 14. Route 15. Route 16, between the east urban limits of Sacramento and Route 49. Route 17, between the north urban limits of Santa Cr…

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 36, between Route 5 and Route 395. Route 37, between the east urban limits of San Francisco-Oakland near Novato and the west urban limits of San…

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 50. Route 53. Route 58, between Route 5 and Route 15. Route 62. Route 63, between the north urban limits of Visalia and Route 180. Route 65, bet…

For purposes of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include the following: Route 70, between Route 99 north of Sacramento and Route 395. Route 74. Route 78. Route 79, between Route 8 and Route 10. Route 80. Route 84, between Route 580 and Route 4. Rou…

For purposes of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 94, except within the urban limits of the County of San Diego. Route 95, between Route 10 and the Nevada state line. Route 97. Route 98, between Route 111 and Rout…

For purposes of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 120, between Route 5 and Route 395. Route 126, between the east urban limits of Oxnard-Ventura-Thousand Oaks and Route 5. Route 127. Route 128. Route 129, between …

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 140, between the east urban limits of Merced and Yosemite National Park. Route 146. Route 149. Route 152, between Route 101 and Route 99. Route …

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 160, between the north urban limits of Antioch-Pittsburg and the south urban limits of Sacramento. Route 168, between the east urban limits of F…

For purposes of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include the following: Route 203. Route 205. Route 207. Route 215. Route 239. Route 243. Route 267. Route 299, between Route 101 and Route 89, and between Route 139 and Route 395. (Amended by Stats. …

For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.3, the eligible interregional and intercounty routes include all of the following: Route 330, between the north urban limits of San Bernardino-Riverside and Route 18. Route 371. Route 395. Route 505. Route 580. Route 680. Route 905, …

The interregional road system shall include, and shall be limited to, those routes that are specified in Sections 164.10 to 164.20, inclusive. (Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 622, Sec. 44. Effective January 1, 1998.)

(a) A local agency may request authorization from the commission to make advance expenditures of funds, other than state or federal funds, for a project which is included in the priority list for the allocation of transit capital improvement funds pursuant to Section 99317 of the…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to allocate seven million dollars ($7,000,000) annually to the Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program Fund, which is hereby created. (b) Local, state, and federal agencies and nonprofit entities may apply for and may receive grant…

(a) (1) The department shall prepare a State Highway System Management Plan. The plan shall include a 10-year state highway system rehabilitation plan for the rehabilitation or reconstruction, or the combination thereof, by the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, of a…

The department shall prepare and submit to the Governor a proposed budget. The department shall include, within the proposed budget, the portion of that budget that is to be funded from the State Highway Account. The department shall inform the commission of all pertinent assumpt…

The portion of the proposed budget to be funded from the State Highway Account shall be included in the printed fiscal year budget submitted to the Legislature. The degree of detail contained in the portion of the proposed budget shall be established jointly by the Department of …

In order to support its proposed budgets and to improve its program management, the Department of Transportation shall develop budgeting, accounting, fiscal control, and management information systems to provide at least the following information: (a) Documentation and control of…

(a) Funds in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund shall be programmed, budgeted subject to Section 163, and expended to maximize the use of federal funds and shall be based on the following sequence of priorities: (1) Operation, maintenance, and rehabilitati…

For the purposes of this code, except as provided in Section 170, the date of the award of a contract and of the commencement of a day-labor project shall be deemed the time when the entire obligation thereunder is incurred. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1106.)

Where it is estimated by the department that the work involved in a project to be constructed under the State Contract Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10100) of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code) will not be completed within a given fiscal year, the departm…

Notwithstanding Section 13302 of the Government Code, the department may, with respect to any project which will not be completed within a fiscal year, finance the project on a cash basis if the department has sufficient unused bonding authority not earmarked for any other projec…

Prior to the commencement of each fiscal year, the department may advertise for bids for capital outlay projects anticipated to be budgeted during the fiscal year. However, the department shall not award any contract for any capital outlay project until (1) sufficient funds have …

Effective June 30, 2002, all funds in the Seismic Safety Retrofit Account in the State Transportation Fund are transferred to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. Any outstanding encumbrances as of June 30, 2002, in the Seismic Safety Retrofit Account shall…

The department may administer projects for local bridge seismic safety retrofits consistent with the requirements of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 2400) of Division 3. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 805, Sec. 4. Effective September 23, 2002.)

The department may allocate State Highway Account funds in lieu of the local matching requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 2413 to the extent funding for this purpose is included in the annual Budget Act. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 805, Sec. 4. Effective Septem…

For purposes of this article: (a) “Bridge” includes a publicly owned pedestrian bridge and a publicly owned rail transit bridge. (b) “Retrofit” includes both the structural modification of an existing bridge and the replacement of an existing bridge by a newly constructed bridge …

As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Adjustment factor“ means the job order contractor’s competitively bid adjustment to the department’s prices as published in the unit price catalog. (b) “Job order” means a firm, fixed-priced, lump-sum order issued by …

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enable the use of job order contracting as an option for constructing transportation and public works projects when it is anticipated that the use of this method will reduce procurement costs or expedite project completion in a manner th…

This article shall remain in effect only until December 31, 2033, and as of that date is repealed. (Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 58, Sec. 4. (SB 146) Effective July 10, 2023. Repealed as of December 31, 2033, by its own provisions. Note: Repeal affects Article 6.5, commencing with S…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The neighborhood surrounding the former Cypress section of Route 880 in Oakland has suffered great and unusual hardship due to the freeway’s collapse during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and its subsequent demolit…