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.

• § 966 — (a) The board of supervisors may provide for the erection and maintenance of gates on the county highways to avoid the necessity of building highway fences.
• § 967 — Whenever a right of way for a highway is conveyed to a county and the sole consideration for the conveyance is an agreement by the county to construct and maintain a highway on the right of way and to
• § 968 — The board may cause the expense of constructing such fences to be charged to and paid from the county general fund, the road fund of the county or the district fund of each district benefited, but not
• § 969 — Whenever a road is of general utility and of public convenience and constitutes the only or principal means of communication between one town or village and another town or village in the same county,
• § 969.5 — Such boards may, after they have determined by a resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of their membership that general county interest demands the improvement or repair of a privately owned road,
• § 969.6 — Notwithstanding Section 969.
• § 97 — (a) A state highway segment shall be designated by the department as a Safety Enhancement-Double Fine Zone if all of the following conditions have been satisfied: (1) The highway segment is eligible f
• § 97.01 — The following segments are eligible for designation as Safety Awareness Zones pursuant to Section 97.
• § 97.1 — (a) A highway segment shall be designated as a Safety Awareness Zone if all of the following conditions have been met: (1) The highway segment is eligible for designation under Section 97.
• § 970.5 — Whenever the board of supervisors or a county officer designated by the board to be in charge of naming county highways finds that a name should be adopted and applied to any county highway, or that t
• § 9700 — The validity of any refunding bonds issued under this division shall not be contested in any action, suit, or proceeding unless the action or proceeding is brought within 30 days after the adoption of
• § 9701 — After the reassessment has been confirmed, it shall not be contested in any way other than at the time and in the manner specified in this division, and in any action, all findings, conclusions and de
• § 9702 — No defect in the form of any reassessment levied pursuant to this division and no statutory defect in any of the proceedings relating to the reassessment and refunding shall in any way invalidate any
• § 9703 — No bond, reassessment, or installment thereof, or of the interest or penalties thereon, and no certificate of sale or deed shall be held invalid for error in the computation of the proper amount due o
• § 9704 — An action to determine the validity of a reassessment and of any refunding bonds issued or to be issued thereon may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2
• § 9705 — If any reassessment or any refunding bond is held illegal or invalid in any action or proceeding upon any ground which would apply to the entire reassessment or the entire issue of refunding bonds, th
• § 9706 — If refunding bonds are invalidated or held to be illegal, all of the provisions of the act shall apply to the original bonds and to any bonds issued under Section 9705 to replace the original bonds.
• § 9707 — No action or proceeding to set aside, cancel, avoid, annul, or correct any reassessment levied under this division, or to review any of the proceedings, acts, or determinations made in the proceedings
• § 971 — Any county highway which has not been officially named may be officially named by the board of supervisors or a county officer designated by the board without any hearing, or notice.
• § 972 — A board of supervisors may, by ordinance, permit the use of any county highway which connects with a main county highway of an adjoining county, by the board of supervisors of such adjoining county fo
• § 973 — The board of the county seeking the use, if it accepts the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the board of the county granting the use, may: (a) Construct and maintain any such highway.
• § 974 — The expense of any work done or acquisition made pursuant to section 973 shall be paid by the county to which the use is granted out of the county general fund, or such other fund of the county as the
• § 975 — The board of any county to which the use is granted, pursuant to the provisions of section 972, may, by mutual consent expressed through ordinances of the respective boards, retransfer the use, contro
• § 976 — The board of supervisors of any county may purchase or lease with the consent of the owner, or may obtain by gift, and may hold, improve or maintain any real property or interest therein for the uses
• § 977 — The board of supervisors of any county desiring to act under section 976 may, by unanimous vote of its membership, determine what real property is necessary and proper for the uses and purposes of cou
• § 978 — Whenever the United States government grants real property to a county for highway uses and purposes, the county may take and dispose of such real property and the board of supervisors shall have, wit
• § 979 — The board of supervisors shall keep in repair all objects or markers adjacent to a county highway which have been erected to mark registered historical places and shall keep such markers free from all
• § 982 — 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 posse
• § 985 — The board of supervisors may construct, install and maintain cattle guards on or adjacent to the county highways.
• § 989 — (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
• § 990 — 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 un
• § 991 — 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