Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

After all claims for damages filed pursuant to this part have been finally determined, by allowance by the legislative body, by withdrawal, or by a judgment in an action or actions brought pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11400), and the full amount of damages to be…

An assessment may be levied and bonds to represent unpaid assessments issued and sold substantially in the manner provided in the Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943, and to the extent applicable, that law shall govern as to the preparation of the diagram, the lien of the assess…

In so applying the provisions of the Vehicle Parking District Law of 1943, the following provisions and exceptions shall apply: (a) The limits provided by said law on the amount of the assessment shall not apply. (b) The legislative body shall provide for the form of the bonds an…

All collections of assessments and all proceeds of the sale of bonds issued upon unpaid assessments shall be placed in a special fund and used exclusively for the payment of the damages, if any, and expenses for which the assessments were levied. If there is a surplus in such spe…

Notwithstanding the fact that the proceedings under this part have provided that assessments are to be levied as contemplated by Section 11202, the legislative body, at any time and either before or after the adoption of the resolution provided for in Section 11311, may determine…

As used in this chapter: (a) The term “highway” includes all or any part of the entire width of right of way of a county highway, whether or not such entire area is actually used for highway purposes. (b) The term “encroachment” includes any structure or object of any kind or cha…

The road commissioner may immediately remove, or by notice may require the removal of, any of the following encroachments: (a) An encroachment which obstructs or prevents the use of a county highway by the public. (b) An encroachment which consists of refuse. (c) An encroachment …

The road commissioner may, by notice, require the removal of any other encroachment not specified in Section 1480.5 from any county highway. (Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 439.)

The notice referred to in Sections 1480.5 and 1481 shall be served upon the occupant or owner of the land, or the person causing, controlling or owning the encroachment, or shall be left at the place of residence of such occupant, owner or person if he resides in the county and i…

If the encroachment is not removed, or its removal not commenced and diligently prosecuted, prior to the expiration of 10 days from and after the service or posting of the notice, the person causing, owning, or controlling the encroachment forfeits three hundred fifty dollars ($3…

If the encroachment is denied, and the owner or occupant of the land, or the person causing, owning or controlling the alleged encroachment refuses either to remove it or permit its removal, the road commissioner shall commence, in a court of competent jurisdiction, an action in …

If the encroachment is not denied, but is not removed within five days from and after service or posting of the notice, the road commissioner may remove the encroachment at the expense of the owner or occupant of the land, or the person causing, owning or controlling the encroach…

Gates shall not be allowed on any county highway except gates allowed by the board of supervisors in accordance with the provisions of section 966. If the expense of the erection and maintenance of such allowed gates is not paid as required by section 966, such gates shall be rem…

A person who, by means of ditches or dams, obstructs or injures any county highway, diverts any watercourse into any county highway, or drains water from his or her land upon any county highway, to the injury of the highway, shall, upon notice by the road commissioner, immediatel…

(a) A person who, in storing or distributing water for any purpose, permits water to overflow or by seepage to saturate a county highway, to the injury of the highway, shall, upon notice by the road commissioner, immediately cease the overflow or seepage and repair the injury cau…

The notice referred to in Sections 1487 and 1488 shall be given in the same manner as provided in Section 1482, except that the action it requires shall be taken immediately. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 182, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 2004.)

Unless a bridge is constructed in accordance with Section 1490, all persons excavating irrigation, mining or drainage ditches across county highways shall construct bridges across such ditches wherever such ditches cross such highways. If such persons fail to construct such bridg…

The board of supervisors of any county may construct and maintain bridges over any ditches which are used exclusively for irrigation purposes and which cross county highways in the county. Such board may, with the consent of the owners of such ditches, declare any of such bridges…

Any person who wilfully injures any county bridge is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is also liable for actual damages for such injury, to be recovered by the county in a civil action. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

Any person who wilfully removes or injures any mile-board, milestone or guide-post, or any inscription thereon, erected on any county highway, is liable for a penalty of ten dollars, recoverable as provided in section 1496, for every such offense, and is also guilty of a misdemea…

Survey monuments shall be preserved, referenced, or replaced pursuant to Section 8771 of the Business and Professions Code. (Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 458, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1995.)

Any person may notify the occupant or owner of any land, from which a tree or other obstruction has fallen upon any county highway, to remove such tree or obstruction forthwith. If it is not thus removed, the owner or occupant is liable for the expense of removal and for a penalt…

Any person who cuts down a tree which falls into any county highway shall immediately remove the tree, and is liable for a penalty of ten dollars, recoverable as provided in section 1496, for every day such tree remains in the highway. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

Any person who maliciously digs up, cuts down, injures or destroys any shade or ornamental tree on any county highway, unless such tree is considered an obstruction by the road commissioner and is removed under his direction, is liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, recover…

The road commissioner shall recover all penalties or forfeitures given in this chapter and the recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, by suit in the name of the county. He shall pay such recoveries into the road fund. The provisions of this section are applicable to Sec…

After acquiring jurisdiction to proceed with the improvement, the city council shall levy the assessment for the portion or percentage required to pay for the improvement for the period of time beginning with the date of commencement of the improvement fixed by the city council a…

Such report shall contain: (a) An estimate of the cost and expense of the improvement for the ensuing 12-month period or the ensuing fiscal year. (b) A diagram showing the assessment district referred to in the resolution of intention, also the boundaries and dimensions of the re…

Any surplus assessments collected shall be applied by the city council to reduce the assessment to be levied either for the next ensuing contract year or for the last contract year under the proceedings, and for the latter purpose such surplus may be permitted to accumulate in th…

If there is any surplus remaining at the close of the last contract year under any proceedings, such surplus shall be used as follows: (a) If new proceedings are started within one year after the close of the last contract year, such surplus shall be applied toward a reduction of…

If for any reason there is a deficiency in the funds derived from the assessment for any improvement, including all incidental expenses thereof, the city council may meet such deficiency by an appropriation out of the general fund of the city or by ordering a supplemental assessm…

Upon the levying of any assessment, the city clerk shall transmit the diagram and assessment upon which such levy is based, or a certified copy of said diagram and assessment to the city tax collector or to such other city officer or employee as the city council designates in the…

The validity of any assessment levied under this part shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless such action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days after the time the assessment is levied, and any appeal from a final judgment in such an action or proceeding shal…

Upon the receipt of the diagram and assessment or a certified copy thereof, the tax collector shall record them in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording. Such record shall be the assessment roll. From the dat…

The tax collector shall, upon the recording of such diagram and assessment, give notice by publication for five days in a daily newspaper, published and circulated in the city, or by two insertions in a weekly newspaper so published and circulated, that the diagram and assessment…

When payment of any assessment is made, the tax collector shall mark opposite such assessment the word “paid,” with the date of the payment thereof, and shall give a receipt therefor. Upon the expiration of said period of 30 days, all assessments then unpaid shall become delinque…

The lien shall be subordinate to all fixed special assessment liens previously imposed upon the same property, but it shall have priority over all fixed special assessment liens which may thereafter be created against the property. A supplemental assessment is a new assessment. (…

Each year during the existence of the district and at least 30 days prior to the making of the general tax levy for city purposes, the city engineer shall furnish to the city council an estimate of the expenses for the next year of the items of maintenance and operation provided …

The special assessment tax shall be levied, computed, entered, collected and enforced at the same time, in the same manner, by the same persons and with the same penalties and priority of lien as other taxes for city purposes and when collected shall be paid into the city treasur…

The city council shall control and order the expenditure of the funds of the district for the purposes of maintenance and operation as provided in the final resolution. If at the expiration of any year there is an unexpended balance in the district fund, the balance shall, to tha…

Each year at the time of making the special assessment tax levy the city council shall appropriate from the fund designated in the resolution of intention or from any other available fund a sum sufficient to pay that percentage of the total expenses of the maintenance and operati…

The city council may also transfer from the general fund of the city to the fund of the district sufficient money to pay all or any part of the percentage of the yearly expenses of the maintenance and operation which is to be paid from funds raised from the district. The amount o…

If a majority of the votes cast at the election is in favor of a lighting district, the board of supervisors shall by resolution establish the district. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)

If a majority of the votes cast are against the lighting district, the board of supervisors shall by order so declare. No other proceedings shall be taken for the formation of another lighting district until the expiration of one year from the date of filing of the defeated petit…

The fact of the filing of the petition, and the resolution establishing the lighting district, shall be entered in the minutes of the board of supervisors and that entry shall be conclusive evidence of the existence and validity of the district and of the fact that all steps prer…

It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to authorize any city or county to establish a golf cart transportation plan for a plan area in the city or county. It is the further intent of the Legislature that this transportation plan be designed and developed t…

The following definitions apply to this chapter: (a) “Plan area” means that territory under the jurisdiction of a city or county designated by the city or county for a golf cart transportation plan, including the privately owned land of any owner that consents to its inclusion in…