Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

In case a franchise is granted for the exercise of a privilege in a city street or county highway, approval of the department shall not be required in respect to intersections. Franchises may be granted extending across the common area of the intersection without any such approva…

The department shall approve any franchise submitted for approval pursuant to Section 683 or 684 unless the department finds on the facts of the particular case that the exercise of the privilege proposed to be granted is incompatible with the primary use of the freeway or other …

Franchises may be granted under this article separately as to any state highway, or portion thereof, or in respect to both state highways, or portions thereof, and city streets or county highways. (Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 708.)

In cases in which the approval of the department is not required, the city or county shall give notice to the department of any application for a franchise affecting a state highway at the time of the filing of such application by any applicant, so that the department may present…

No privilege shall be exercised in any state highway pursuant to any franchise granted under this article until a copy of such franchise, certified by the clerk of the grantor city or county, has been filed with the department. This may be filed with the district director. (Amend…

The department shall have the power to prescribe the location, within the limits of the State highway, of any physical property to be constructed or installed in, under, over or upon such State highway pursuant to any such franchise. Before constructing or installing any such phy…

In the exercise within the limits of any State highway of any privilege granted by franchise, the holder thereof shall at all times be subject to all reasonable orders, rules and regulations of the department for the protection, maintenance or improvement of the highway or the sa…

Independently of or jointly with the grantor city or county, the department may enforce any obligation imposed by any franchise granted pursuant to Section 682 relating to the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, or maintenance of any state highway or portion thereo…

All sums payable by the grantee under any such franchise shall be paid to the grantor city or county. (Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 708.)

All franchises heretofore granted by any city for the exercise of any privilege in any State highway, are hereby fully validated, legalized and made effective, to the same extent that such city at the time of making the grant had power to grant a franchise authorizing the exercis…

Failure of the department to act upon any application for approval under Sections 683 or 684 within 90 days after the filing of such application with the department shall be deemed to constitute approval thereof. The time herein prescribed may be extended with the consent of the …

A city proceeding under this division may appropriate money from any available fund to assist in the refunding. Wherever the improvement is a street, bridge, or highway improvement the county in which the city lies is authorized and empowered to appropriate money from any availab…

In addition to the authority contained elsewhere in this division, any city, county, or city and county, district, or other public corporation of any class or kind, in which all or any part of the lands to be reassessed lie, may, at any time, make a contribution or appropriation …

All or any part of the delinquent taxes levied upon lands subject to reassessment in the refunding proceeding for any city, county, or city and county, district, or other public corporation may be contributed or appropriated to aid in the refunding of such indebtedness by the leg…

Such appropriation or contribution may be of money to be received from the collection of such delinquent taxes or may be made by authorizing the cancellation of the taxes. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

If cancellation as provided in this article is authorized, a certified copy of the resolution making the contribution or appropriation and authorizing the cancellation of the taxes shall be filed with the city or county tax collector, as the case may be. Thereafter the tax collec…

When any appropriation or contribution is made by authorizing the cancellation of taxes, all interest and penalties on the taxes appropriated or contributed shall be canceled at the same time the taxes are canceled and shall not be deemed a part of the appropriation or contributi…

The taxes to be appropriated or contributed may be described in the resolution making the appropriation or contribution as all of the taxes for the particular fiscal year or years; and the total amount thereof may be stated in the resolution. No error in the statement of the tota…

The resolution making the appropriation or contribution and authorizing the cancellation of taxes shall comply with the following requirements: (a) It shall be adopted by a two-thirds vote. (b) It shall find that the public interest and necessity require the contribution or appro…

When an appropriation or contribution of taxes has been made under this article, the county auditor shall compute the amount of the unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest canceled and shall notify the State Controller thereof, and such amount shall be deducted from the amount nece…

Where property has been deeded to the State for delinquent taxes and any appropriation or contribution of any part of the delinquent taxes is made pursuant to the authority conferred in this chapter, the consent of the Controller of the State of California to such appropriation o…

This article applies only to the following: (a) Any person who on August 14, 1929, held a franchise for a toll bridge or operated a toll bridge under such a franchise, or to any toll bridge franchise existing on that date. (b) Any person who on August 21, 1933, held a franchise f…

The license tax and rate of toll as originally fixed by the board of supervisors shall not be increased or diminished at any time during the term of 20 years, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors that the receipts from tolls in any one year is dispro…

Every owner or keeper of a toll bridge or ferry shall report annually to the board of supervisors from which his license is obtained, under oath, the following facts: (a) The actual cost of the construction or erection and equipment of the toll bridge or ferry. (b) The repairs ma…

The president and secretary of every toll bridge and toll ferry corporation shall annually, under oath, report to the board of supervisors of the county in which the articles of incorporation are filed: (a) The cost of constructing and providing all necessary appendages and appur…

Whenever the board of supervisors is about to fix the license tax and rate of tolls on a bridge or ferry it shall make inquiry into the present actual cash value and the cost of all necessary repairs and maintenance thereof, and for that purpose may examine, under oath, the owner…

If the estimate of the board is not agreed to by the owner or keeper of the bridge or ferry, it shall be fixed by three commissioners, one to be appointed by the board, one by the owner and keeper, and the third by the presiding judge of the superior court, who shall hear testimo…

When the cost of construction or erection and equipment of the bridge or ferry, or the fair cash value thereof, together with the cost of needed repairs and the conduct and maintenance thereof, is ascertained and fixed for the preceding year, the board shall on such ascertained a…

The owner or keeper of the toll bridge or ferry shall furnish a bond in the sum fixed by the board of supervisors and conditioned that the toll bridge or toll ferry will be kept in good repair and condition, and that the keeper will faithfully comply with the laws of the state an…

The license tax for a toll ferry or toll bridge connecting two counties shall be paid to the treasurer of the county granting it, and the license issued by the auditor thereof. The treasurer of such county shall pay to the treasury of the county in which the other end or landing …

A supervisor who is interested in an application to erect, construct, or take tolls, or alter tolls on a bridge or ferry shall not act in any such matter. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

Every licensed toll bridge or toll ferry shall have the rates of toll as fixed by the board of supervisors, printed or written, posted up in some conspicuous place on or near the bridge or ferry. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

The proceeds of the license tax on ferries and toll-bridges shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of roads and highways, or may be used by the board of supervisors at any time in the purchase of toll-roads and toll-bridges. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

All ferry and toll bridge keepers shall keep the banks of the streams or waters at the landings of their ferries or ridges graded and in good order for the passage of vehicles. For every day compliance herewith is neglected twenty-five dollars ($25) is forfeited, to be collected …

Any penalty recovered for any violation of the rights or obligations of the toll bridges or toll ferries described in this article shall be paid to the county treasury for the use of the general road fund of the county. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

If any encroachment exists in, under or over any State highway, the department may require the removal of such encroachment in the manner provided in this article. Except as otherwise provided in sections 680 and 721, notice shall be given to the owner, occupant or person in poss…

The department may immediately remove from any state highway any encroachment that: (a) Is not removed, or the removal of which is not commenced and thereafter diligently prosecuted, prior to the expiration of five days from and after the service of the notice. (b) Obstructs or p…

The department may remove an encroachment on the failure of the owner to comply with a notice or demand of the department under the provisions of Section 673, Section 680, or Section 720, and shall have an action to recover the expense of the removal, costs, and expenses of suit …

If the owner, occupant, or person in possession of the encroachment, or person causing or suffering the encroachment to exist, or the agent of any of them, disputes or denies the existence of the encroachment, or refuses to remove or permit the removal of the encroachment, the de…

Unless the encroachment is authorized under Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), any person owning, controlling, or placing, or causing or suffering to exist, any encroachment within any state highway after the service upon that person of the notice, in the manner provided in…

It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following acts: (a) Drain water, or permit water to be drained, from his lands onto any State highway by any means which results in damage to the highway. (b) Obstruct any natural water course so as to: (1) Prevent, impede or restric…

When notice thereof is given by the department, in the manner provided by section 720, to any person permitting or suffering such damage to be done to any State highway, or permitting or suffering any such condition to exist, such person shall immediately cease and discontinue su…

If a person is thus notified, and fails, neglects, or refuses to cease and discontinue the diversion, to discontinue and prevent the drainage, seepage, or overflow of the waters, or to make the repairs required by Section 726, the department may make the repairs and may also perf…

Any person proposing or desiring to excavate or construct ditches in, under or over any State highway, to carry water for any purpose, shall construct, without expense to the State, such bridges, culverts, pipes, siphons or crossings as are necessary adequately and properly to ca…

Upon the neglect or refusal of any person to comply with the provisions of section 728, the department may construct any such crossing and may recover, in the name of the people of the State of California, in an action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction, the expense of…

Any person who by any means wilfully or negligently injures or damages any State highway is liable for the repair thereof, and the department, in the name of the people of the State of California, may recover, in an action in any court of competent jurisdiction, the amount expend…