California

Streets and Highways Code - SHC

4,632 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 705 — In any case in which the department is required under the provisions of this article to pay the cost of removal or relocation of any utility facility, it shall be entitled to credits as follows: (1) I
• § 706 — The department and any utility required to remove a utility facility or to relocate any utility facility may, by agreement, provide for the respective amounts of the cost to be borne by each.
• § 706.5 — In connection with the construction of State Highway Route 86 in Imperial County from Post Miles 58.
• § 707 — In the event of failure to reach an agreement as provided in Section 706, the utility or the department may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction for apportionment of the cost between t
• § 707.5 — (A) The department and any utility as defined in Section 700 of this code may enter into a contract providing for or apportioning the obligations and costs to be borne by each party as to either or bo
• § 708 — Every utility is entitled to a permit for such reasonable crossings of any freeway, as may be required for the proper discharge of the utility’s service to the public.
• § 709 — The department shall exercise a reasonable discretion in acting on applications of utilities for permits to occupy freeways for longitudinal locations of facilities, as may be required for the proper
• § 71 — The commission may alter or change the location of any State highway if in the opinion of the commission such alteration or change is for the best interest of the State.
• § 710 — The department, in acting upon applications for utility permits, shall consider both the interests of the traveling public upon the freeway and the needs of consumers for public utility services.
• § 711 — Nothing in this article is intended to prevent the department from making reasonable rules and regulations and requiring reasonable conditions in permits concerning the place, manner and method of loc
• § 72 — (a) The department shall do all of the following with respect to Route 480 in the City and County of San Francisco, commonly known as the Embarcadero Freeway, if approval for the use of federal emerge
• § 72.1 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Central Freeway Replacement Project” is the department and city designated alternative transportation system to
• § 720 — 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.
• § 721 — 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 expi
• § 722 — 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 ha
• § 723 — 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 encr
• § 724 — 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 hig
• § 725 — 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
• § 726 — 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
• § 727 — 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 repair
• § 728 — 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, culv
• § 729 — 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 Califo
• § 73 — The commission shall relinquish to any county or city any portion of any state highway within the county or city that has been deleted from the state highway system by legislative enactment, and the r
• § 73.01 — (a) The commission may relinquish to a county transportation commission created pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 130000) of Division 12 of the Public Utilities Code, a joint powers autho
• § 73.1 — The commission may relinquish State Route 275, the Tower Bridge, to one or more cities in which it is located, upon agreement of the city or cities to accept it and pursuant to those terms the commiss
• § 73.3 — Upon determination by the commission that it is in the best interest of the state to do so, the commission may, upon terms and conditions approved by it, relinquish State Route 224 from post mile 0.
• § 73.4 — (a) For purposes of this section, “infrastructural barrier” means a state highway for which high speeds, grade separation, or other design factors displaced residences or create an obstacle to connect
• § 73.5 — Whenever any area has been or may hereafter be constituted a National park or be added to any existing National park and jurisdiction thereover has been ceded by the Legislature to the United States,
• § 730 — 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
• § 730.5 — Any person who by any means, without a permit issued by the department, digs up, cuts down, destroys, prunes, trims, or otherwise injures any tree or shrub on any state highway, rights-of-way, or prop
• § 731 — Any vehicle or structure parked or placed wholly or partly within any state highway, for the purpose of selling the same or of selling therefrom or therein any article, service or thing, is a public n
• § 731.5 — Section 731 does not apply to a coin-activated or credit card-activated telephone available for public use shared and maintained within any bus passenger shelter lawfully erected upon any state highwa
• § 732 — Any person who wilfully injures, defaces, breaks down or removes any monument or stake placed, erected or used by the department to designate any point in the boundary or survey of any State highway o
• § 732.5 — Survey monuments shall be preserved, referenced, or replaced pursuant to Section 8771 of the Business and Professions Code.
• § 733 — All money recovered under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into any fund which is available to the department for highway purposes and is designated by the department to receive such payme
• § 734 — The procedure provided in this article is not exclusive and shall not prohibit the department from exercising any other remedy provided by law to prevent damage to or to protect any State highway.
• § 74 — Any city or county aggrieved by any decision of the department, under the provisions of Division 3 (commencing with Section 2004.
• § 74.5 — The planning commission and legislative body of a city or county shall, prior to recommending the adoption of a state highway route by the Legislature or the selection of a state highway location by t
• § 740 — As used in this article: “Mapped highway” means a highway which is laid out, surveyed, and delineated on a map of such size, scale, and detail that the exact location on the ground which the highway i
• § 740.2 — Whenever the department has laid out and surveyed a proposed state highway in any county or city it shall prepare a map of such highway sufficient to show the location of such highway on each parcel o
• § 740.4 — The department shall transmit a copy of such map insofar as it relates to the land within a county to the planning commission of the county.
• § 740.5 — The department shall transmit a copy of such map, insofar as it relates to the land within a city, to the planning commission of the city or, if the city has not created a planning commission, to the
• § 740.6 — A copy of the precised plan shall be filed with the agency of the county charged with the duty of issuing building permits for buildings in unincorporated areas in the county, or, if no such agency ex
• § 740.8 — No person shall hereafter erect any building or structure, other than a temporary structure costing less than five hundred dollars ($500) without a permit to do so.
• § 741 — Prior to issuing a building permit the officer whose function is to issue such permits shall examine the precised plan and if he finds that the building or structure proposed to be erected will lie wi
• § 741.2 — Any person aggrieved by the refusal of a building permit under this article may request a hearing on the matter by an appeals board.
• § 741.4 — The appeals board shall grant the permit if any of the following are true: (a) That the property of which the mapped highway location is a part is of such nature that the owner of the land will be sub
• § 741.6 — The appeals board shall not grant the permit if any of the following are true: (a) That the owner of the land will not be substantially damaged by locating the proposed structure on his land outside o
• § 741.7 — Nothing in this article shall be deemed a condition precedent to the acquisition of rights of way by purchase or by proceedings in eminent domain.
• § 741.8 — Nothing in this article shall be construed to restrict the right of any person to seek declaratory relief pursuant to Section 1060 of the Code of Civil Procedure or to avail himself of any other legal
• § 741.9 — The assessor, in assessing any property affected by the provisions of this article, shall take into consideration any impairment of the use of the property which lessens its actual value resulting fro
• § 742 — If any provision of this article, or the application thereof to any person, or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this article, and the application of such provision to other persons or c
• § 745 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The establishment, use, and maintenance of junkyards in areas adjacent to any interstate or primary highway should be controlled in order to promote
• § 746 — As used in this article: (a) “Junk” means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, junked, dismantled or wrecked motor vehicles, or parts thereof, iron, s
• § 746.1 — “Nonconforming junkyard” means either of the following: (a) A junkyard lawfully in existence on October 6, 1966, but which does not conform to the requirements of this article.
• § 746.2 — Nonconforming junkyards may continue in existence as long as they are not extended, enlarged, or changed in use, and are otherwise lawfully maintained.
• § 746.3 — An illegal junkyard is one which is either: (a) Established or is maintained in violation of this article and does not come within the definition of a “nonconforming junkyard,” as defined in Section 7
• § 747 — Except as hereafter provided, no junkyard shall be established, operated, or maintained if any portion of the junkyard is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the
• § 747.1 — Sanitary landfills need not be screened to satisfy the requirements of this article but landscaping shall be required when the fill has been completed and operations have ceased, unless the landfill a
• § 748 — (a) Any nonconforming junkyard, as soon as the maximum federal share under Section 136 of Title 23, United States Code, is available for that purpose, shall be removed from sight of interstate or prim
• § 749 — The department may also screen any junkyards located within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of an interstate or primary highway and located within an industrial zone if the director
• § 75 — Except as otherwise provided by law, the commission at any time and from time to time may: (a) Select, adopt, and determine the location for State highways on routes authorized by law.
• § 75.9 — Upon the selection, adoption, and determination of the location for a state highway or freeway, the commission shall notify all planning agencies and legislative bodies having responsibility pursuant
• § 751 — The department is authorized to acquire such interests in real and personal property as may be necessary to effect the screening, recycling, relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards required by t
• § 751.1 — The Legislature hereby declares that the acquisition of interests in real and personal property to effect the screening, relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards provided for in Section 751 const
• § 752 — If federal law should be interpreted as requiring the states to pay just compensation with regard to the relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards, just compensation shall be paid by the departmen
• § 753 — The commission is authorized to allocate funds from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund for all of the following purposes: (a) Costs of administering the provisions of this arti
• § 754 — Any junkyard which is established or maintained in violation of the provisions of this article or the regulations prescribed thereunder is a public nuisance and may be removed or otherwise disposed of
• § 755 — The director may screen, relocate, remove or dispose of any illegal junkyard after 30 days’ written notice posted on such property and a copy forwarded by mail to the owner of such junkyard at his las
• § 756 — Every illegal junkyard is a public nuisance and every person, as principal, agent or employee, violating any of the provisions of this article or the regulations prescribed thereunder is guilty of a m
• § 757 — The remedies provided in this article for the removal of junkyards are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.
• § 758 — The director may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States and accept any allotment of funds as provided by Section 136 of Title 23 of the United States Code.
• § 759 — The director shall prescribe and enforce regulations governing the establishment, screening, relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards as provided in this article consistent with the provisions of
• § 759.3 — It is declared to be the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to establish minimum standards with respect to the regulation of outdoor junkyards.
• § 76 — There is hereby delegated to the commission by the Legislature of the State of California full power and authority to request or accept on behalf of the State of California any grant or grants or modi
• § 760 — (a) If the board of supervisors of any county determines, by a four-fifths vote of the membership of the board, that the acquisition or contribution authorized under this section will promote the inte
• § 761 — The expense of any such acquisition of real property or interest therein, or of any such contribution, or of both, may be charged to the general fund of the county, the road fund of the county, or the
• § 762 — The State may receive and use the benefits provided under section 760, and any money contributed by a county under that section shall be paid into a State fund available for highway purposes and desig
• § 77 — The commission may accept, by appropriate resolution, a grant or modification of a grant of right-of-way for any of the roads mentioned in Section 76 across property of the United States of America.
• § 77.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Governor of the State of California is authorized to accept any retrocession of legislative jurisdiction offered by the United States of America over re
• § 78 — Any of the said grants received by the State of California and accepted by the commission, or relocations of such rights of way so received in any military reservation, shall by the acceptance thereof
• § 79 — This delegation of power to the commission shall not be deemed exclusive, but any of the powers herein enumerated may continue to be exercised by the Legislature itself while in session.
• § 790 — The board of supervisors of any county may, by a vote of not less than three-fifths of its membership, petition the department to cooperate, under the provisions of this article, in the improvement of
• § 791 — Such petition shall contain: (a) A description of the highway proposed to be improved or constructed.
• § 792 — Upon the receipt of such petition, if the department determines that public necessity and convenience will be served thereby, it may cooperate with the petitioning county or counties, in any manner ag
• § 793 — All such surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates of cost shall be subject to the approval of the department.
• § 794 — Upon such approval the department may enter into a written agreement with any petitioner or with the several petitioners for the improvement or construction of the highway in question.
• § 795 — If the proposed construction or improvement lies wholly within one county, the board of supervisors of the county may designate the county surveyor or any engineer to take charge of the work.
• § 796 — When a written agreement has been entered into as provided in section 794, detailed plans and specifications shall be prepared by the engineer or surveyor named to take charge of the proposed construc
• § 797 — The board shall then proceed to advertise for bids and let the contract for the improvement or construction of such highway after first securing the department’s written approval of the proposal submi
• § 798 — Payment for the work done under this article shall be made in the manner provided by law for the payment of claims against counties.
• § 8 — Whenever any notice, report, petition, permit, statement or record is required by this code, it shall be made in writing in the English language.
• § 80 — The commission shall act by resolution or by vote or order entered in its minutes.
• § 800 — (a) The Advance Mitigation Program is hereby created in the department to enhance communications between the department and stakeholders to protect natural resources through project mitigation, to mee
• § 800.5 — For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Acquire” and “acquisition” mean, with respect to land or a waterway, acquisition of fee title or purchase of a conse
• § 800.6 — (a) The funds in the Advance Mitigation Account created in Section 800.
• § 800.7 — The Advance Mitigation Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund as a revolving fund.
• § 800.8 — The program is intended to improve the efficiency and efficacy of mitigation only and is not intended to supplant the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing
• § 800.9 — The department, pursuant to this article and for the purpose of implementing the Advance Mitigation Program, may develop a programmatic mitigation plan pursuant to Section 169 of Title 23 of the Unite
• § 8000 — This part may be cited as the Change of Grade Act of 1909.
• § 8001 — This part shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes.
• § 8002 — “City” includes all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes.
• § 8003 — “City council” and “council” include any body which by law is the legislative department of the government of the city.
• § 8004 — “Clerk” and “city clerk” include any person or officer who is clerk of the city council.
• § 8005 — “Street superintendent” includes any person, officer or board whose duty it is under the law to have the care or charge of streets, or the improvement thereof, in any city.
• § 8006 — “Street” includes public street, lane, alley, court, or other place.
• § 8007 — “Ordinance” includes resolution.
• § 8008 — Proof of publication of any notice required by this part shall be made by affidavit, as provided in the Code of Civil Procedure, and proof of the posting of any such notice shall be made by the affida
• § 8009 — This part provides an alternative system of proceedings for changing or modifying the grades of streets in cities; and the provisions of this part shall not apply to or affect any other provisions of
• § 8020 — The city council of any city may change or modify the grade of streets therein, in the manner provided in this part.
• § 8021 — The election of the city council to proceed under the provisions of this part shall be expressed in its ordinance of intention to order any change or modification of grade.
• § 8022 — Before any change or modification of grade is ordered, the city council shall pass an ordinance of intention to order such change or modification of grade.
• § 8023 — The ordinance of intention shall be posted conspicuously for two days on or near the chamber door of the city council, and shall be published by two insertions in a daily or weekly newspaper published
• § 8024 — The street superintendent shall thereupon cause copies of the notice of the passage of the ordinance of intention to be conspicuously posted along all streets or portions thereof designated in the ord
• § 8025 — The notice shall be headed “Notice of Change of Grade,” in letters of not less than one inch in height, and shall in legible characters state the fact of the passage of the ordinance of intention, its
• § 8026 — The street superintendent shall also cause a notice similar in substance to be published for six days in a daily newspaper published and circulated in the city, and designated by the city council for
• § 8040 — Any person owning any real property fronting upon any street or portion thereof on which such change or modification of grade is proposed to be made, may, within 30 days after the first publication of
• § 8041 — Every protest shall contain a description of the property owned by each signer thereof, sufficient to identify the property, and if signed by more than one person, shall be accompanied by the affidavi
• § 8042 — The clerk of the city council shall indorse on every protest the date it is filed with him and at the next regular meeting of the city council after the expiration of the time for filing protest, shal
• § 8043 — If the city council finds that such protests are signed by the owners of a majority of the frontage of the property fronting on the street or portion thereof on which the change or modification of gra
• § 8044 — If the ordinance of intention designates any street or portion thereof, the grade of which is proposed to be changed or modified, and there is included in the ordinance of intention any other street o
• § 8045 — If the city council finds that: (a) Such protests are not signed by the owners of a majority of the property fronting on the street or portion thereof on which such change or modification of grade is
• § 8046 — Thereupon the city council shall cause notice of the time and place of such hearing to be published for two days in a daily newspaper published and circulated in the city, or by one insertion in a wee
• § 8047 — At the time and place appointed for the hearing of protests or at any time to which the hearing thereof may be continued, the city council shall hear and pass upon the protests, and its decision there
• § 8048 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the person owning the fee or the person in whom, on the day any protest or petition is filed, the legal title to real property appears, by deed duly recor
• § 8049 — In the case of property held by tenancy in common, if any cotenant signs a protest under this part, only the proportionate share of the frontage thereof represented by his interest therein shall be co
• § 8060 — If no protests are filed within the time provided, or if protests are filed and after hearing are denied, as provided in this part, the city council shall acquire jurisdiction to order to be made and
• § 8061 — The ordinance ordering the change or modification of grade shall be published by two insertions in a daily or by one insertion in a weekly newspaper published and circulated in the city.
• § 8062 — If the grade of any street or portion thereof has been heretofore or is hereafter changed or modified, nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent any subsequent change or changes, modification
• § 81 — Except as is provided in Section 2109, whenever there exists between the termini of, and approximately on, any route included in the state highway system a traversable highway, the commission shall ad
• § 810 — Any county, city or permanent road division, within the limits of which there is a State highway, may do or order to be done on any such highway any paving, curbing, highway work or sewer work authori
• § 8100 — The short title of this part is “Separation of Grade District Act.
• § 8101 — As used in this part: (a) “Project” means an overpass, underpass, or tunnel, or any combination thereof, at a single crossing, the planning, construction and maintenance of which is authorized by this
• § 8115 — Separation of grade districts may be formed as provided in this part and may exercise the powers herein granted.
• § 8116 — Whenever the board of any county finds that the safety and welfare of the residents of contiguous areas within the county require formation of a district to provide for a separation of grade, it shall
• § 8117 — The resolution shall contain all of the following: (a) A statement of intention to form the district and of the necessity for and purpose of its formation.
• § 8118 — The resolution shall be published at least once a week for two weeks, at the discretion of the board, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the proposed district.
• § 8119 — The hearing may be continued from time to time and from place to place for not exceeding a total of sixty days by public declaration thereof, and no other notice of the fact of such continuance need b
• § 8120 — At the hearing the board shall hear all relevant and pertinent objections to the formation of or extent of the district and may, in its discretion, hear arguments against the objections urged.
• § 8121 — At the hearing, or within twenty days after the adjournment thereof, the board shall determine: (a) Whether the proposed district shall be formed.
• § 8121.5 — The board shall exclude uninhabited farm acreage from the district as not benefited.
• § 8122 — If the board determines that the district shall be formed, it shall by resolution: (a) Describe the territorial extent of the proposed district.
• § 8123 — The resolution shall be published at least once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the proposed district.
• § 8124 — Except where inconsistent with the provisions of this part, the election shall be held and conducted as provided by law for the holding of special elections in the county.
• § 8125 — The canvass of the returns of the election shall be made at the same time in the same manner and by the same officers as provided by law for special elections in the county.
• § 8126 — If a majority of votes cast in each city and if a majority of votes cast in the unincorporated area within the proposed district are favorable, the board shall, by resolution, declare the district dul
• § 8127 — A certified copy of the resolution shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the district is situated and filed with the Secretary of State.
• § 8130 — Upon the completion of the formation of the district, if the district is comprised of one city and unincorporated territory, the board shall appoint a commission composed of five members, three of who
• § 8130.1 — Upon the completion of the formation of the district, if the district is comprised of two or more cities and unincorporated territory, the board shall appoint a commission composed of five members.
• § 8131 — The commissioners first appointed shall so classify themselves by lot, that one member holds office for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and two for four years, thereafter appointment
• § 8132 — Each commissioner shall serve until the appointment and qualification of his successor.
• § 8133 — Within twenty days after their appointment, the commissioners shall meet and elect one member president, one member vice-president, and one member secretary.
• § 8134 — The commission is authorized to pay each commissioner an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each meeting of the commission attended by the commissioner, not exceeding two meetings dur
• § 8145 — The commission has all of the following powers: (a) To sue and be sued in its own name.
• § 8160 — Before the construction of any project, and before the calling of any election for the issuance of bonds, the commission shall employ one or more engineers, or contract for engineering services with a
• § 8161 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8117, upon the completion of the surveys referred to in Section 8160 and upon recommendation of the engineer or engineers, in which recommendation shall be in
• § 8190 — At any time after the adoption of a plan for a project or the letting of a contract for the construction of the whole or any portion of the project, the commission may, by order entered in its minutes
• § 8191 — The order shall fix the day of the election, shall describe the exact location of each project for which bonds are to be issued, shall specify the amount of the bond issue for each project, and shall
• § 8192 — Notice of the election shall be given in the manner and for the time provided for in Section 8123.
• § 8192.5 — On the ballot at the election each project shall be submitted as a separate proposition, together with a description of the exact location of the project and a statement of the amount of bonds to be i
• § 8193 — After the vote has been counted and the result announced by the election officers, the ballots shall be sealed up and delivered to the secretary of the commission, with the election returns.
• § 8194 — If at the election two-thirds, or more, of the votes cast on a proposition are in favor of the issuance of bonds for the project described in the proposition for which bonds are proposed to be issued,
• § 8195 — A project may be constructed with money raised by taxation instead of a bond issue if authorized by two-thirds, or more, of the votes cast at an election called for the purpose of determining if the p
• § 82 — Whenever a traversable highway is adopted as a state highway as provided in Section 81, written notice of such action shall be given to the board of supervisors of each county and to the city council
• § 820 — The State of California assents to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code, as amended and supplemented, other acts of Congress relative to federal aid, or other cooperative highway work,
• § 820.1 — (a) The State of California consents to the jurisdiction of the federal courts with regard to the compliance, discharge, or enforcement of the responsibilities assumed by the department pursuant to Se
• § 820.5 — The department may enter into agreements with authorized officials of the United States for the performance of street or highway construction, improvement, or maintenance projects, including the acqui
• § 8205 — All bonds shall be issued in such denominations as the commission may determine, except that they shall be not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• § 8206 — All bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the county treasurer of the county, and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 6 percent per annum, which shall be
• § 8207 — The bonds shall be signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary of the commission.
• § 8208 — The bonds may be sold by the commission in such manner and such quantities as it may determine, but no bond shall be sold for less than its face value.
• § 8209 — The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be deposited with the county treasurer and shall be placed by him in a fund in the county treasury to be called the ____ Separation of Grade District Fund (
• § 821 — The department, on behalf of the State, shall submit to the Secretary of Agriculture, or other properly authorized officer of the United States, such project statements as may be required and may agre
• § 8210 — The bonds shall be legal investment: for all trust funds; the funds of all insurance companies, banks, and trust companies; the state school funds, and for all sinking funds under the control of the S
• § 822 — The department is authorized to do any and all acts and things with reference to any military or public street or highway in, or to be constructed in, this State necessary to the performance of any su
• § 822.5 — Agreements are authorized between the department and any county, or counties, or city, or cities, providing for the acquisition of property for, the construction, improvement and maintenance of any hi
• § 8220 — 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 fo
• § 8221 — Annually at the time of levying county taxes, the board of supervisors shall levy a tax upon the real property within the district.
• § 8222 — 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.
• § 8223 — All money raised by taxation which is authorized by this chapter shall belong to the district.
• § 823 — In addition to the purposes for which the moneys in, and to be received in, the State Highway Account have been appropriated, all of the moneys, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro
• § 823.5 — The department may maintain any street or highway which is not a part of the state highway system whenever all of the following facts exist: (a) The department has performed upon such street or highwa
• § 8230 — All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 8235 — The treasury of the county in which the district is situated shall be the depository for the funds of the district.
• § 8236 — The following funds are hereby established in the county treasury to which the money belonging to the district and raised by taxation shall be apportioned by the treasurer: (a) Bond fund.
• § 8237 — After any project has been completely constructed the commission may at its option convey all the right, title and interest of the district in and to that project to the city in which the project was
• § 824 — Expenditures made from the State Highway Account, to the extent to which the United States is obligated by a project agreement to reimburse the state, shall be considered as advancements made by this
• § 825 — The total of the funds available from the Federal Government and the State for construction or improvement of state highways by the State shall be apportioned between the two county groups in accordan
• § 8250 — Whenever it shall deem it advisable, the commission shall, by resolution, order that an election be held in the district upon the question of dissolution of the district.
• § 8251 — Upon dissolution of a district containing a single city, any property which may have been acquired by the district shall vest in the city, except projects theretofore transferred and conveyed to the c
• § 8252 — If at the time of the election to dissolve the district there is outstanding any bonded indebtedness of the district, the vote to dissolve shall dissolve the district for all purposes except the levy
• § 826 — All moneys received from the Government of the United States as reimbursement for street or highway construction projects shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the fund from which
• § 826.5 — The department, the State Controller, and the State Treasurer are hereby authorized to enter into such agreements, execute such documents, establish and manage such accounts or deposits, and take any
• § 8265 — Any district, in order to determine the legality of its existence, may institute a proceeding in the superior court of the county.
• § 8266 — The proceeding is instituted by filing with the clerk of the court a complaint setting forth: (a) The name of the district.
• § 8267 — The summons shall be addressed generally to all persons interested in the district, or in any of the lands contained in the district, and shall be served by publishing a copy once a week for four week
• § 8268 — Within 30 days after the last publication of summons, any person interested may appear and answer the complaint.
• § 8269 — If any provision of this part is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this part.
• § 827 — The department may insert in the specifications for any contract for any project as to which a project agreement has been executed by and between the State and the United States a stipulation that the
• § 8275 — At any time after the formation of a district the board may determine that contiguous territory should be annexed to the district.