Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

Except as provided in this section, the board of supervisors shall have power to temporarily close all or any part of any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, lane or place and grant the possession and use thereof, together with the management and control thereof, to any …

The board of supervisors may construct, install and maintain cattle guards on or adjacent to the county highways. The cost of constructing, installing, and maintaining such cattle guards may be paid from the general county fund. The board of supervisors may, under such restrictio…

(a) (1) Upon the incorporation of a city or upon the annexation of territory to a city, all right, title, and interest of the county, including the underlying fee where owned by the county, in and to any county highway within the territory involved, which had been accepted into t…

Where practical or desirable, the board of supervisors shall, along any highway under its jurisdiction, possession, or control, replace trees that have been destroyed or removed because of projects undertaken to widen the highway. Money received by county from the Highway Users T…

Before any bridge on a county highway is constructed over any navigable river, the board of supervisors, after a study and public hearing on the question, shall determine and shall prepare a report on the feasibility of providing public access to the river for recreational purpos…

The department has exclusive jurisdiction and, except as provided in this article, may grant upon the terms, limitations, conditions, and restrictions and under the supervision as in its judgment are necessary or proper, franchises, privileges, or licenses for the construction or…

The department shall require the grantee of any such franchise, privilege, or license to pay a license tax or fee of not less than ten dollars ($10) or more than one hundred dollars ($100) a month, the amount of which shall be fixed in the franchise. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 17…

The department may fix the rate of tolls, and from time to time regulate, modify, and change any such tolls which may be collected on any toll bridge, toll roads, or toll ferries which are built, constructed, or established pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176…

The rate of toll fixed, regulated, modified, or changed shall be determined by the department after hearing has been had thereon and a written finding rendered. Findings rendered by the department are conclusive as to the facts recited therein. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

The department may provide as a condition or limitation in any franchise granted pursuant to this article for the purchase or retaking of any toll bridge, toll road, or toll ferry constructed or established by virtue of a franchise issued pursuant to this article, upon such terms…

Every person operating any toll road, toll bridge, or toll ferry within the State under any franchise granted pursuant to this article shall keep an accurate account showing the following: (a) The cost of construction thereof and the amount expended in keeping such toll road, tol…

The department shall prescribe: (a) A uniform system of accounts for all such toll roads, toll bridges, and toll ferries: (b) The manner in which the account of costs of construction, repair, operation, and maintenance thereof and the annual statement of expenditures and revenues…

The department may make orders and prescribe rules and regulations with respect to toll roads, and toll bridges, or toll ferries in conformity with this article. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

All money received from any franchise granted by the department pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the State Highway Account. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 245.)

The enforcement and administration of this article is declared to be a part of the highway program of the state, and all necessary expenditures of the department therefor are payable out of the State Highway Account. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 246.)

Private entities shall reimburse the Department of the California Highway Patrol for the actual costs incurred by that department for traffic enforcement services rendered pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 23251 of the Vehicle Code on toll highways which are publicly owned a…

The board of supervisors shall not grant franchises and licenses for the construction, taking, and keeping of tolls on roads, bridges, and ferries in its county. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) Any person who on August 14, 1929, held a franchise for a toll bridge or toll road or operated a toll bridge or toll road under such a franchise, or to any toll road or toll bridge franchise existing on that date. (b) Any p…

This article does not prevent the State, or any city, county, incorporated bridge and highway district, or joint highway district from acquiring or constructing toll roads, toll bridges, and toll ferries under the restrictions imposed by any law authorizing the construction, acqu…

This article does not conflict in any manner with any law authorizing the construction, acquisition, or condemnation of toll roads or toll bridges through the use of revenue bonds. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no toll shall be imposed on the passage of a pedestrian, a bicycle, or a personal micromobility device, as defined in Section 1940.41 of the Civil Code, over any bridge that is part of the state highway system, on which the travel of ped…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Highway” includes all, or any part, of the entire width of the right-of-way of a state highway, whether or not the entire area is actually used for highway purposes. (b) “Encroachment” includes any tower, pole, pole line, pipe, pipe line, fence, bill…

In addition to persons, public corporations, and districts specified in this chapter, this chapter shall apply to all private corporations authorized by law to establish or maintain any works or facilities in, under or over any public highway. This chapter shall not limit the pow…

When the contract between the city and 75 percent or more of the bondholders has been entered into, the legislative body shall direct the auditor to submit a complete and accurate statement showing the following: (a) The total principal amount of the outstanding bonds of the issu…

The amount of the reassessment upon any parcel of land shall be computed by the auditor in the following manner: (a) Subtract from the total amount of unpaid assessments including interest and penalties thereon, if any, on all lands to be reassessed, the amount of the total propo…

As an alternative method of apportioning the reassessments, the legislative body, if it determines that it appears that the assessments upon some of the lands to be reassessed seem excessive and not in proportion to benefits, may by resolution direct that the superintendent of st…

When the reassessment has been spread under the alternative method, it shall be filed with the auditor and the auditor shall include it in his statement in lieu of the reassessment computed by him. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

The amount of the reassessment upon any parcel shall not exceed the unpaid amount of the original assessment upon that parcel and the unpaid annual interest thereon. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

Tax-deeded land shall be subject to reassessment. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

Any parcel of land subject to the lien of any assessment securing bonds to be refunded pursuant to this division which has been deeded to any city or other political subdivision or public corporation for delinquent taxes or for delinquent taxes and assessments shall be subject to…

All money appropriated by the city or county to assist in refunding shall be credited upon the reassessment and shall reduce each of the reassessments therein and shall be prorated among the respective parcels reassessed in accordance with the amounts assessed against each of the…

No person shall construct or take tolls on a bridge or ferry unless authorized by the governmental agency which has or had power to issue a franchise therefor. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

Any person who without authority of law demands or receives compensation for the use of any bridge or ferry or sets up or keeps any road, bridge, ferry, or constructed ford for the purpose of receiving any remuneration for its use is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1947…

Any person who operates a motor vehicle over a toll bridge or toll highway crossing and the approaches thereto constructed or acquired by any bridge and highway district, at the entrance to which appropriate signs have been erected to notify traffic that it is entering upon a tol…

Any person who maliciously injures or destroys any toll house or gate is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

Any person who enters into an undertaking to keep and attend a ferry and violates the conditions of such undertaking is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

Every corporation incorporated for the purpose of operating a toll bridge or toll ferry may be dissolved in any of the following cases: (a) If within one year after filing its articles of incorporation, it has not obtained such authority from the governmental agency having author…

(a) The department may issue written permits, as provided in this chapter, authorizing the permittee to do any of the following acts: (1) Make an opening or excavation for any purpose in any state highway. (2) Place, change, or renew an encroachment. (3) Place or display in, unde…

(a) The department may issue a permit to the owner or developer of property adjacent to or near a state highway to construct, alter, repair, or improve any portion of the highway for the purpose of improving local traffic access, if the improvements to the highway are required as…

(a) The Flag of the United States of America and the Flag of the State of California may be displayed on a sidewalk located in or abutting on a state highway situated within a city, if the type of flagholder and the method of its installation and maintenance are not in violation …

Any act done under the authority of a written permit, issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be done in accordance with the applicable provisions of this chapter, and the terms and conditions of such permit. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

The department may establish a fee schedule and charge a fee for the issuance of permits pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, except that no such fee shall be charged by the department to any public corporation. The fee schedule established by the department shall not prod…

(a) The department shall either approve or deny an application from an applicant for an encroachment permit within 60 days of receiving a completed application, as determined by the department. An application for an encroachment permit is complete when all other statutory require…

Any permit issued under the provisions of this chapter may provide that the permittee will pay the entire expense of replacing the highway in as good condition as before, and may provide such other conditions as to the location and the manner in which the work is to be done as th…

(a) Any permit issued to a permittee of the class specified in Section 678 shall contain a provision that in the event the future improvement of the highway necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment the permittee will relocate or remove the same at the permittee’…

The department may, but is not required to, supervise any work done under any permit, issued under the provisions of this chapter in which event the permittee shall, in addition to any fees charged pursuant to Section 671.1, pay the reasonable cost of such supervision to the depa…