Title SHC, California Sts. & High. Code

The district may make contracts, employ labor, and all kinds of employees, whether skilled or unskilled, for the purpose of carrying on the business of the district. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 175.)

The district may establish all necessary rules, regulation or conditions under which the property of the district may be used by the public and fix and collect all tolls for the use thereof, and enter into contracts with any persons or public officers or public or private corpora…

The district may do all things necessary for the complete exercise of the powers described in this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

The work of constructing, repairing, relocating, or otherwise providing any of the highways or approaches composed of the structures or improvements mentioned in Part 3 (commencing with Section 27000) of Division 15 of this code or Article 60 (commencing with Section 20910) of Ch…

Every purchase or contract made in violation of the competitive bidding requirements of this part shall be void. (Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 1472.)

The district may contract with the State for the construction, repair or relocation of highways or approaches to any structure or improvement maintained or operated by it and may collect tolls for the use of such structure or improvement to pay any obligation to the State, incurr…

(a) The district may adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the Vehicle Code for the control of traffic on any facility of travel constructed by the district, to aid and ensure the safe and orderly flow of traffic, and shall, so far as practicable, notify the public of…

(a) Every person who, without permission of the board or its authorized officers or agents, climbs upon any railing, cable, suspender rope, tower, or superstructure of any district toll bridge, or otherwise trespasses on any portion of the bridge that is not intended for public u…

Every person who stands in the roadway or on the sidewalk of any district toll bridge, or the approaches thereto, for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1731.)

The district shall cause to be published and made available to the public at the toll gates of any facilities of travel constructed by the district, copies of those traffic laws and rules and regulations particularly applicable thereto. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1350.)

Violation of any rules or regulations provided for in Section 27174.1, notice of which has been given by a sign on the facility of travel constructed by the district is a misdemeanor. (Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1731.)

The California Highway Patrol shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to provide for proper and adequate policing of all facilities of travel constructed by the district, to insure the enforcement thereon of the Vehicle Code and of any other law relating to the use and …

A towing service may be maintained by a bridge and highway district on each vehicular crossing under its jurisdiction, and said district may furnish such towing and emergency road service as is necessary to permit the orderly flow of traffic upon such crossing and upon district p…

Within the district, the Department of Transportation may restrict any portion of a state highway to a particular mode of vehicular transportation during such hours as the department, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, determines such restriction would ex…

A bridge and highway district may contract with the State to furnish regular highway patrol officers to serve for 24-hour police or patrol duty on the bridge and its approaches. The cost of such services shall be a legal expense for operation of the district. (Added by Stats. 195…

Annually on or before June 30th, the board shall prepare an estimate of the expenditures required for the maintenance, operation, repair, and improvement of the parking places under its charge for the ensuing fiscal year, and required during that year for the acquisition of addit…

The board shall also estimate the amount of revenues to be derived from rentals, fees, or charges for the use of the parking places and the amount, if any, to be raised by taxation. The amount to be raised by taxation for the acquisition of additional parking places shall be stat…

The estimate shall be filed with the legislative body, and at the time and in the manner for levying general taxes, the legislative body shall levy and collect upon and against all of the taxable land and improvements within the district a special ad valorem tax sufficient to rai…

The tax levy for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvement of parking places in any year shall not exceed fifteen cents ($0.15) on each one hundred dollars ($100) assessed value of taxable land and improvements within the district. The tax levy for acquisition of additional…

The special tax shall be levied and collected at the same time, in the same manner, by the same officers, and with the same interest and penalties as general taxes levied by the legislative body. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

The proceeds of the tax levied for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvement shall be placed in the district maintenance and operation fund and expended only for the maintenance, operation, repair, and improvement of parking places under the control of the board. (Added by …

The proceeds of the tax levied for the acquisition of parking places shall be placed in a separate fund of the district and shall be expended only for the purpose for which it was levied. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 463.)

All revenues from fees, charges, or rentals for the use of any parking place of the district shall be turned over to the treasurer and by him placed in such fund as the board designates, and may be used for the acquisition, improvement, maintenance, repair, and operation of any p…

If the board determines that the revenues from fees, charges, and rentals exceeds the amounts necessary for the proper maintenance, operation, repair and improvement of the parking places, and the acquisition of additional parking places, upon the order of the board the surplus r…

If the assessment has been paid in cash, the credit shall be returned in cash to the person who paid the corresponding assessment, upon his furnishing satisfactory evidence of such payment. (Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 302.)

If the assessment is unpaid, the credit shall be applied upon the earliest unpaid installment or installments of principal and interest and any excess over the total principal and interest remaining unpaid shall be returned as provided in Section 31829. (Amended by Stats. 1963, C…

Within 60 days after the sale of the property for delinquency, the purchaser may send to the person to whom the property is assessed for purposes of taxation as shown upon the last equalized assessment roll of the county in which the property lies, and to the person in whose name…

Any action, suit, or proceeding attacking or contesting the validity of any deed issued under the provisions of this division, or the validity of the proceedings subsequent to the issuance of the certificate of sale, shall be brought within 12 months after the issuance of the dee…

If any sale of lands for delinquency in the payment of principal or interest of any bond is held illegal or invalid, or any deed issued to the purchaser at any such sale is held illegal or invalid for any reason whatsoever, the lands described in the bond shall not be released fr…

Annually on or before August 1st, the commission shall furnish to the board of supervisors and auditor of the county an estimate in writing of the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation for the purposes of the district for the ensuing fiscal year. The amount shall be …

Annually at the time of levying county taxes, the board of supervisors shall levy a tax upon the real property within the district. The rate shall be such as will produce, after due allowance for delinquency, the amount determined as necessary to be raised by taxation on the secu…

The tax so levied shall be computed and entered on the assessment roll by the county auditor, and if the board fails to levy the tax the auditor shall do so. The tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes, and when collected shall be paid into …

All money raised by taxation which is authorized by this chapter shall belong to the district. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1147.)

If federal funds are available for reimbursement therefor, the department may acquire, either in fee or in any lesser estate or interest, real property adjacent to any highway included in the national system of interstate and defense highways or the federal-aid primary highway sy…

The Legislature hereby declares that the acquisition of interests in real property for the preservation, maintenance or conservation of scenic lands or areas adjacent to any highway included in the national system of interstate and defense highways or the federal-aid primary high…

The department may convey or lease such property back to its original owner or to another person or entity in the manner and subject to such reservations, conditions, covenants or other contractual arrangements approved by the commission as will preserve the scenic character or b…

The boards of supervisors in their respective counties may maintain, control, construct, repair or manage public ferries within the county. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

The boards of supervisors, in their respective counties, may construct, operate, manage or maintain summer ferries under such rules and regulations and at such times and places as they consider necessary. The boards may cause the expense of such ferries to be paid out of the coun…

Whenever the board of supervisors of any county considers it advisable and for the best interests of the public that the county own and operate any ferry within such county, the board may purchase, establish or operate any ferry across any stream or river within the county. (Amen…

Such board may acquire landing places for any such ferry and may pay the expenses of purchasing, establishing or operating such ferry out of the road fund of the county. A supervisor or his bondsmen shall not be responsible for the payment of damages incurred by any person while …

When a navigable river forms a boundary between two counties of this State, the board of supervisors of such counties may establish and operate any ferry across such river. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

When a navigable bay forms a boundary between two counties, the boards of supervisors of the counties may establish and operate any ferry across the bay, subject to any restrictions in Article 7 (commencing with Section 30350) of Chapter 1 of Division 17 or in any bond resolution…

Each of the counties shall pay such proportion of the expenses of establishing and operating any such ferry as is agreed upon by the respective boards. Each board may pay its county’s proportion of such expenses out of the county general fund or the road fund of the county. (Amen…

If either of the counties refuses to enter into an agreement to establish and operate any such ferry, the other county may: (a) Establish and operate a ferry across the river. (b) Acquire landing places for such ferry on the opposite bank of such river. (c) Pay the expense of est…

Any ferry constructed or acquired under this chapter by a county or counties may be operated as either a free ferry or a toll ferry. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 28.)

The money collected by the tax collector shall be paid by him, as fast as collected, to the city treasurer, who shall place it in a special fund designated by the name of the improvement proceeding, and payment shall be made out of said special fund only for the purposes provided…