Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

“Municipality” and “city” include every city, city and county, or county, or other entity, public corporation, or agency authorized to operate under this division, including any joint powers entity created pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Titl…

“Legislative body” includes any body which by law is the legislative department of government of the city, or municipality. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 192.)

“City treasurer” includes any person or officer who has charge and makes payments of the city or municipal funds. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 192.)

“Install” includes construct, reconstruct, extend, repair, and maintain. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 192.)

Subject to the limitation of Section 10204.1, “incidental expense” has the same meaning as specified in Section 5024. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 104, Sec. 27.)

“Street” includes the whole or any part of one or more public streets, alleys, or other places in any municipality, and rights of way owned or held by any municipality for the purposes of this division. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 192.)

“Assessment district” means the district of land to be benefited by the improvement and to be specially assessed to pay the costs and expenses of the improvement and the damages caused by the improvement. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 192.)

The provisions of this division apply to all counties and districts, or other public corporations insofar as such corporations have the power applicable to them to make any of the improvements authorized under this division. The officers of such counties, districts, or other publ…

“Acquisition”, or any of its variants, means and includes one or more of the following: (a) Any works, improvements, appliances, or facilities authorized to be made, constructed, or acquired under this division and which are in existence and installed in place on or before the da…

“Owner” means the person owning the fee, or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears, by deed duly recorded in the county recorder’s office of the county in which the property is situated, or the person in possession of the property or buildings under clai…

This division shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. No error, irregularity, informality, and no neglect or omission of any officer, in any procedure taken under this division, which does not directly affect the jurisdiction of the legislative body to o…

Whenever any notice, resolution, order, or other matter is required to be published or posted, and the duty of posting or publishing, or procuring the same, is not specifically enjoined upon any officer or person, the clerk shall post or procure the publication or posting thereof…

The failure of the clerk to mail any notice or the failure of any person to receive the same shall not affect in any way whatsoever the validity of any proceedings taken under this division, nor prevent the legislative body from proceeding with any hearing so noticed. (Added by S…

No notice, nor any publication of any notice, order, resolution, or other matter, other than that expressly provided in this part or elsewhere in this division, shall be necessary to give validity to any of the proceedings provided in this division. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 310…

Any resolution, notice, report, diagram, or assessment which is required to contain a description of the improvements, the boundaries of the assessment district or any zones therein, or the lines and dimensions of any parcel of land, may, for a full and detailed description there…

This part may be cited as the Pedestrian Mall Law of 1960. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

“City” includes every county, city, and city and county within this State. “The city” means the particular county, city, or city and county, acting pursuant to this part. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

“Legislative body” means the legislative body of “the city.” (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

“Street” as used in the definitions of the terms “city streets,” “mall intersection” and “intersecting streets” hereinafter defined means any public street, road, highway, alley, lane, court, way or place of any nature open to the use of the public. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex.…

“City street,” as used with regard to streets located within a city or city and county, means any “street” located within the city or city and county, except a “freeway,” “state highway,” or “county highway” as defined in Sections 23.5, 24, and 25. “City street,” as used with reg…

“Pedestrian mall” means one or more “city streets,” or portions thereof, on which vehicular traffic is or is to be restricted in whole or in part and which is or is to be used exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

“Mall intersection” means any intersection of a “city street” constituting a part of a “pedestrian mall” with any “street,” which intersection is itself part of the “pedestrian mall.” (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

“Intersecting street” means any “street” which meets or crosses a “pedestrian mall” at a “mall intersection” but includes only those portions thereof on either side of a “mall intersection” which lie between the “mall intersection” and the first intersection of the “intersecting …

“Assessment roll” means the assessment roll or rolls used by the city for purposes of city ad valorem taxes on real property of the city. (Added by Stats. 1960, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 33.)

If “the city” is a charter city, “similar special assessment law” shall include a procedural assessment ordinance of such city. (Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 459.)

“Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943” means the Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943, Part 1 (commencing with Section 31500) of Division 18 of the Streets and Highways Code, as that statute existed on December 31, 1973. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 400, Sec. 5. Effective January…

The legislative body of any city may do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct any section or portion of any street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway, and to make any existing street or highway a freeway. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

This part may be cited as the Street Lighting Act of 1919. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions obtained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

This part shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

This part provides an alternative system for making the improvements authorized by this part and the provisions of this part shall not apply to or affect any other provisions of this code. When any proceedings are commenced under this part, the provisions of this part and no othe…

“Street lighting system” and “system” include any or all appliances, poles, posts, electroliers, transformers, lighting units, lamps, cables, wires, pipes, conduits and other suitable or necessary works or appliances for street lighting purposes. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

“Street,” and any of its variants, mean and include highways, state highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways and other public places and ways dedicated to public use, or any portion thereof, within a city or along a boundary of a city. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 855…

“Tax collector” and “city tax collector” mean the city officer, board or employee designated as such by the city council in the resolution levying the assessment, and the officer, board or employee so designated shall discharge all duties prescribed as those of tax collector or c…

“Service,” and any of its variants, means and includes the furnishing of electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent to all or part of any street lighting system. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

“Improvement,” and any of its variants, include the maintenance or servicing, or both, of all or part of any one or more street lighting systems and, where applicable, the installation of street lighting systems owned by any public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Publi…

“Maintenance,” and any of its variants, as used in this part includes the replacement of any obsolete equipment with the new modern equipment necessary for an adequate street lighting system or systems. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 620.)

“Assessment district” means the territory to be benefited by the proposed improvement and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

“Clerk” and “city clerk” mean any person or officer who is or acts as clerk of the city council. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body of any city may close any street or highway within its jurisdiction at or near the point of its intersection with any freeway, or may make provision for carrying such street or highway over, under, or to a connection with the freeway, and may do any and all n…

“Treasurer” and “city treasurer” include any person or officer who has charge of and makes payment of city funds. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

“City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

“City Council” and “council” include any body which by law is the legislative department of the government of the city. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

If lots or parcels of land belonging to the United States, to this state, or to a county, city, public agency, mandatory of the government, school board, educational, penal or reform institution, or facility for housing of persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities o…

Before taking any action authorized by Section 1801 affecting any state highway, the action shall require the approval of the Department of Transportation. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 80.8.)