Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

(a) Boards of supervisors shall, by proper order, cause those highways which are necessary to public convenience to be established, recorded, constructed, and maintained in the manner provided in this division. (b) No public or private road shall become a county highway until and…

The board of supervisors may lay out, acquire, construct, and maintain any section or portion of any street or highway within the county as a freeway or expressway and may make any existing street or highway a freeway or expressway. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 367, Sec. 3.)

Boards of supervisors may close any street or highway within their 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 work on su…

Before taking any action authorized by Section 941.2 affecting any state highway, such action must be approved by the Department of Public Works. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

(a) The board of supervisors, with the consent of any city in which the proposed system is located, in whole or in part, may designate a system of expressways within the county. The designation shall be based on a study of the transportation needs of the county, which shall inclu…

If the boundary line between two adjacent counties lies within a county highway, the boards of supervisors of the affected counties may, by agreement, provide for the improvement, maintenance, construction, or reconstruction of all or part of the highway by either or both countie…

Such boards may enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for the construction, improvement or maintenance of county highways, and for the protection, supervision, management, control, or use of such highways. Any such board may by a four-fifths vote of all its members let cou…

The board of supervisors may restrict the use of, or close, any county highway whenever the board considers such closing or restriction of use necessary: (a) For the protection of the public. (b) For the protection of such county highway from damage during storms. (c) During cons…

The board of supervisors may delegate the powers contained in Section 942.5 to the county road commissioner. (Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 488.)

Such board may: (a) Acquire any property necessary for the uses and purposes of county highways. When eminent domain proceedings are necessary, the board shall require the district attorney to institute such proceedings. The expense of and award in such proceedings may be paid fr…

No bonded indebtedness shall be incurred for any purpose specified in section 943 until after the question of the issue of bonds therefor has been submitted to the qualified electors of the county, at the next general election or at a special election called for that purpose, and…

Such boards may expend from the county general fund the moneys necessary to pay the whole or any part of the cost of the improvement of any highway lying within any city in the county, whenever any real property belonging to the county and used for public purposes is included wit…

No liability shall be created against the county in connection with any such improvement conducted by a city unless the board, by resolution, determines and declares the amount to be expended and directs that such sum be set apart and reserved out of any moneys available for such…

Every instrument or judgment which constitutes evidence of title to a right of way, or incident thereto, in relation to county highways shall particularly describe the lands included in such right of way or incident. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

The board of supervisors of each county shall cause to be recorded with the county recorder, in relation to every county highway within the county, proper evidences of title to every right-of-way, and all incidents thereto. The board of supervisors may, by ordinance, delegate thi…

The board of supervisors may plant shade and ornamental trees on the county highways, and provide for their care. The cost of planting and caring for such trees may be paid from the county general fund. The board may also encourage, under such regulations as it adopts, the planti…

For the purpose of sprinkling county highways with oil or water, the board of supervisors may erect or maintain waterworks, tanks or reservoirs, and may purchase or lease real or personal property therefor. The board may charge the cost of erecting or maintaining such waterworks,…

(a) Such board may set apart on any county highway a strip of land for a side path, and make an order designating the width of such path, and cause the lines separating the path from the highway to be located and marked by stakes, posts, curbs, dikes, trees, or other physical del…

Such board shall cause properly inscribed guideposts to be erected and maintained at all county highway crossings and forks lying outside of any city. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

Except as it may otherwise have determined pursuant to Section 8571.3, the legislative body of any city which has issued bonds which are outstanding under the act may, at any time, determine by resolution that the public interest or necessity requires the refunding of the issue o…

Two or more issues of bonds issued under the act may be refunded in one proceeding under this division and only one issue of refunding bonds issued therefor, to be secured by all of the reassessments levied in lieu of the original assessments. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec.…

The proceedings for refunding two or more issues of bonds shall follow as nearly as may be the procedure for the refunding of one issue, with the modifications and changes in the resolutions, notices, reassessment list, bonds, auditor’s report, summons, complaints, and all other …

The resolution referred to in Section 9520 shall direct a qualified person retained or employed pursuant to Section 9506 to prepare and file with the city clerk a report containing the following: (a) A schedule setting forth the unpaid principal and interest on the bonds to be re…

When the report provided for in Section 9523 is filed with the clerk, the clerk shall present it to the legislative body for consideration. The legislative body may modify it in any respect. The report as modified shall stand as the report for the purpose of all subsequent procee…

(a) If the legislative body finds that all of the following conditions are satisfied, it may approve and confirm the report prepared pursuant to Section 9523 and proceed to authorize, issue, and sell refunding bonds pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 9600): (1) That e…

If the legislative body is unable to make the findings required by Section 9525, it may proceed with refunding and reassessment by preliminarily approving the report and by fixing a time and place for hearing on the report and on the proposed refunding and reassessment. (Added by…

Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication, pursuant to Section 6062a of the Government Code, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or, if there is no newspaper published in the city, then in a newspaper of general circulation published in the count…

Any person interested in any of the property to be reassessed may file a written protest against the proposed refunding or the amount reassessed against that person’s or any other property, as shown in the statement, at, or at any time prior to, the time fixed for the hearing on …

Any person who files a protest shall have full opportunity to be heard thereon. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984.)

A board of supervisors may, acting separately or in conjunction with State or Federal agencies, or with another county, burn or remove debris, rubbish, brush, and grass from the county highways. When acting in conjunction with other agencies or counties, a board may so act outsid…

At the time and place fixed for the hearing, the legislative body shall hear any complaints or objections that may be made concerning the proposed refunding, the amount of unpaid assessments, or the amounts of proposed reassessments as to any of the parcels of land to be reassess…

At the hearing, no objections to the regularity of the proceedings with reference to the making of the improvements or the validity or the amount of any assessment levied in the original proceedings shall be considered. All other objections to any reassessment shall be deemed wai…

The determination of the legislative body upon all objections or protests shall be final and conclusive. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984.)

The hearing may be continued from time to time by order entered in the minutes, but shall be concluded within 30 days from the date originally fixed. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984.)

At the hearing, the legislative body may review and correct the amount of any reassessments upon any parcel of land. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984.)

If the legislative body finds that protests against the proposed refunding or the proposed reassessments are signed by the owners of more than one-half of the area of the land proposed for reassessment, all further proceedings under the resolution of intention to refund are barre…

At the conclusion of the hearing, in the absence of a majority protest pursuant to Section 9534.5, the report and the reassessment as originally made, or as reviewed and corrected, shall be approved and confirmed by resolution entered upon the minutes. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. …

When the reassessment, as made or as reviewed and corrected, has been confirmed by the legislative body, it shall be recorded in the office of the superintendent of streets. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984.)

When recorded with the superintendent of streets and upon compliance with the provisions of Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 3100), the reassessment shall become a lien upon the various parcels of land assessed. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984…

Except as otherwise provided in this section and in Sections 9546, 9547, and 9548, assessments originally levied, and all penalties and interest accrued thereon, which are included within the reassessments, shall be deemed superseded and supplanted by the reassessments. If, and t…

Except as provided in Section 9548, the lien of the reassessments shall be given superiority and priority as of the date that the original assessments became a lien upon the property reassessed. The lien of unpaid installments of the assessments originally levied and the penaltie…

All county highways which for a period of five consecutive years are impassable for vehicular travel, and on which during such period of time no public money is expended for maintenance, are unnecessary highways. The board of supervisors of any county on its own motion, or on the…

(a) The board of supervisors may, by resolution, terminate the maintenance of any county highway if it finds that the highway is unnecessary for the public convenience. (b) Evidence that a county highway is unnecessary for the public convenience shall be taken at a public hearing…

(a) A board of supervisors, by resolution, may terminate the maintenance of all or a portion of a county highway if it finds that another public agency will maintain the highway or that portion of it pursuant to an agreement meeting the requirements of Section 941.6. The resoluti…

Reassessments and each installment thereof and the interest and penalties thereon shall be a lien against the parcels of land on which made until the same are paid, but for a period not exceeding the time within which an action might be brought on the last series of refunding bon…

Unmatured installments, interest, and penalties on unpaid reassessments shall not be deemed to be within the terms of any general warranty of title as to any parcel against which a reassessment is made. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 1984.)