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.

• § 136.1 — The department may enter into major damage mitigation contracts to perform major damage repairs and operations on state highways when caused by sudden, unforeseen events such as storms, landslides, fl
• § 136.5 — (a) The contracts referred to in Sections 135, 136, and 136.
• § 136.6 — (a) The department may enter into contracts not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the leasing and renting of operated heavy highway equipment for state highway maintenance purposes,
• § 137 — The department shall determine the kind, quality, and extent of all highway work done under its control, and may prepare and approve all plans, specifications, and estimates for all such work.
• § 137.6 — The design of, the drafting of specifications for, and the inspection and approval of state highway structures shall be by civil engineers licensed pursuant to the Professional Engineers Act (Chapter
• § 138 — The department may employ an attorney at law and such assistant attorneys as are necessary, said attorney to act as the attorney and legal adviser of the department in all highway matters.
• § 139 — The director or the Chief Engineer of the department may require verbal or written reports from any officer, assistant, or employee of the department regarding state highway matters with which such of
• § 1390 — Any bridge crossing the line between a city and a road district may be constructed and maintained, as provided in section 1391, by the city and by the county from the road fund of the district into wh
• § 1391 — Any bridge referred to in section 1390 may be constructed by contract, let as provided by law, by any city into which the bridge extends, or by the county into which such bridge extends or in which su
• § 1392 — If the proportion to be paid by any such city or county can not be otherwise determined, the expense of construction or maintenance of any such bridge shall be borne equally by the city and from the r
• § 1393 — The proceeds of any bonds authorized by the voters of any such city or county for the acquisition, construction or completion of any such bridge, or any portion thereof, may be expended or contributed
• § 1394 — (a) Any county may join with any city located within such county in the acquisition, construction or maintenance of any bridge or viaduct within the county, whether such bridge or viaduct is or is to
• § 1395 — Any bridge which crosses the line between counties, unless otherwise specially provided for, shall be constructed by the counties into which such bridge reaches.
• § 1396 — The boards of supervisors in their respective counties may erect free county bridges on county highways across navigable bodies of water in this State.
• § 1397 — If a navigable body of water is the boundary line between counties, the boards of such counties may join in the construction of a free county bridge upon the terms to which they agree.
• § 1398 — The board of supervisors of any county may declare that it is necessary for the public convenience to construct a bridge across any body of water or swampland which lies in or extends into the county,
• § 1399 — The boards of supervisors of two adjoining counties may enter into an agreement with any person with whom such boards desire to collaborate for the purposes specified in section 1400, if such boards f
• § 14 — “County” includes “city and county.
• § 140 — The department may establish and maintain shops for the construction, repair, and servicing of any equipment owned or used by the department.
• § 140.3 — Effective June 30, 2006, the Equipment Service Fund in the State Treasury is abolished and all moneys in the fund shall be transferred to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund.
• § 140.5 — The department may do anything, including the prosecution of any action, necessary to collect any amounts owing to the State as a result of any activity of the department, and may settle any of such c
• § 1400 — The agreement authorized by section 1399 may provide for any of the following: (a) The construction of a bridge.
• § 1401 — Any work done pursuant to such an agreement is exempt from any provisions of law regarding the letting of contracts by counties for the performance of any work upon bridges.
• § 1402 — The board of supervisors of any county now controlling or maintaining, by virtue of any statute, any bridge across any navigable stream, which bridge is wholly or in part within any city, may whenever
• § 1403 — The board of supervisors reconstructing, replacing or relocating such bridge may enter into an agreement with any person who is then maintaining any bridge across any such navigable stream, for the bu
• § 1404 — The expense of such reconstruction, or of the building of a new bridge is payable from the same fund provided by law for the maintenance and repair of any such bridge.
• § 141 — In addition to the other powers relating to state highways granted to it by law, the department may do all of the following: (a) Make investigations to place, at the service of the state, the most app
• § 142 — All expense incurred in carrying out the objects of section 141 is part of the administrative expense of the department.
• § 143 — (a) (1) “Best value” means a value determined by objective criteria, including, but not limited to, price, features, functions, life-cycle costs, and other criteria deemed appropriate by the departmen
• § 143.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the demonstration toll road project known as State Highway Route 125 (SR 125) in the County of San Diego, authorized pursuant to authority granted to th
• § 143.2 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Authorized agreement” means either of the following types of agreements: (A) An agreement whereby the rail entity assists th
• § 1430 — For the purposes of this article, “subway” includes tube or tunnel.
• § 1431 — Whenever in the interests of commerce, for the benefit of the residents of the county, or for the purpose of expediting travel between points on opposite sides of any navigable body of water, the boar
• § 1432 — The order calling such an election shall be valid and effectual when signed by two-thirds of the members of the board.
• § 1433 — The board of supervisors of any county may, for the purpose of ascertaining the probable expense of any proposed subway, expend out of the county general fund a sum not exceeding thirty-five hundred d
• § 1434 — Whenever any such subway is proposed to be constructed under any navigable body of water forming the dividing line between counties, the boards of supervisors of each of the counties into which any su
• § 1435 — Such a subway shall not be constructed under any navigable body of water forming the dividing line between counties, unless all the counties into which such subway reaches first authorize such work an
• § 1436 — Whenever any such proposed subway will reach within the limits of any city, if the governing body of each such city and the board of supervisors of the county in which each such city is situated first
• § 144 — The department is authorized to divide or separate any state highway into separate roadways, wherever there is particular danger to the traveling public of collision between vehicles proceeding in opp
• § 144.5 — No state highway shall be divided as provided in Section 144 in such manner as to prevent traffic on any city street or county highway which such state highway intersects from crossing such state high
• § 145 — The department is authorized to lay out and construct local service roads on and along any state highway where there is particular danger to the traveling public of collision due to vehicles entering
• § 1450 — 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.
• § 146 — Any public agency having responsibility for the planning and development within a region of this state of public transportation systems may, with the approval of the commission, use the airspace over
• § 146.5 — (a) The department may construct, maintain, and operate fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities along the state highway system when those facilities would reduce motor vehicle traffic co
• § 1460 — The road commissioner may issue written permits, as provided in this chapter, authorizing the permittee to do any of the following acts: (a) Make an opening or excavation for any purpose in any county
• § 1461 — 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 c
• § 1462 — 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 co
• § 1463 — Any permit issued to a public agency or a public utility having lawful authority to occupy the highways shall contain a provision that in the event the future improvement of the highway necessitates t
• § 1464 — The road commissioner 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 pay the reasonable cost of s
• § 1465 — (a) Permittees may excavate openings in county highways to make repairs in cases of emergency requiring immediate action.
• § 1466 — The road commissioner may delegate to any city any of the road commissioner’s powers, duties, and authority, other than those of approval, under this chapter as to any county highway, or any part ther
• § 1467 — The road commissioner may require the applicant to file with the road commissioner a satisfactory bond payable to the people of the county in such amount as the road commissioner deems sufficient, con
• § 1468 — Except as otherwise provided in this section, such a bond shall not be required of any public agency or public utility having lawful authority to occupy the highways which is authorized by law to esta
• § 1469 — Any city, municipal utility district, municipal water district, public utility having lawful authority to occupy the highways or metropolitan water district is entitled to a blanket permit issued by t
• § 147 — The director shall, without supplanting any other program required to be administered by the department or redirecting funds allocated to other programs, restart program efforts in District 7 of the d
• § 1470 — This chapter shall not supersede the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 7030), Division 4 of the Water Code.
• § 148 — The department may construct and maintain transit related highway facilities along the state highway system.
• § 148.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Monterey-Salinas Transit District and the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District may conduct a transit bus-only program using the shoulders of cer
• § 1480 — 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.
• § 1480.5 — 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 b
• § 1481 — The road commissioner may, by notice, require the removal of any other encroachment not specified in Section 1480.
• § 1482 — The notice referred to in Sections 1480.
• § 1483 — 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,
• § 1484 — 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
• § 1485 — 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
• § 1486 — 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.
• § 1487 — 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 th
• § 1488 — (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 c
• § 1488.5 — 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.
• § 1489 — 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 whereve
• § 149 — The department may construct exclusive or preferential lanes for buses only or for buses and other high-occupancy vehicles, and may authorize or permit such exclusive or preferential use of designated
• § 149.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.
• § 149.10 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.
• § 149.11 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.
• § 149.12 — The Highway Toll Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund for the management of funds received by the department for toll facilities authorized pursuant to Section 149.
• § 149.13 — (a) VTA may apply to the commission pursuant to Section 149.
• § 149.2 — (a) The department shall report to the transportation policy committees of the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on or before January 1, 2020, on the feasibility and
• § 149.20 — (a) On or before January 1, 2026, the director shall adopt a transit policy to guide the implementation of transit priority facilities and transit stops on the state highway system.
• § 149.3 — The department may undertake the construction of exclusive or preferential lane facilities pursuant to a cooperative agreement with any public or private agency that provides mass transit services.
• § 149.4 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.
• § 149.5 — (a) (1) (A) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.
• § 149.6 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 149, 149.
• § 149.7 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800, a regional transportation agency, as defined in subdivision (k), or the department may apply to the commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll la
• § 149.8 — (a) Pursuant to Section 149.
• § 149.9 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 149 and 30800 of this code, and Section 21655.
• § 1490 — 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.
• § 1491 — 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.
• § 1492 — 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 pr
• § 1492.5 — Survey monuments shall be preserved, referenced, or replaced pursuant to Section 8771 of the Business and Professions Code.
• § 1493 — 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.
• § 1494 — 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 da
• § 1495 — 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 rem
• § 1496 — 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.
• § 15 — “City” includes “city and county” and “incorporated town.
• § 150 — When the department, in cooperation with rapid transit districts, recommends that mass public transportation facilities should be located along a proposed freeway corridor in order to establish a plan
• § 1500 — The board of supervisors may adopt standards for limited maintenance of county highways which have a low traffic volume.
• § 151 — The department may make such regulations as may be required in the interests of public safety governing the use of any express highway or additional facilities constructed as provided in this article
• § 152 — The department may permit the placing of, and cooperate in the planning for, emergency water hydrants on or adjacent to state freeway rights-of-way wherever a public water system is available.
• § 153 — The department may place and maintain or cooperate with local agencies or others in the placing and maintenance of emergency telephones or other communication facilities on or adjacent to state freewa
• § 154 — The department shall encourage the construction and development by counties of portions of the county highways as official county scenic highways and may furnish to the counties any information or oth
• § 154.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 154 or any other provision of law and subject to subdivision (b), if the department determines that the County of Los Angeles is in compliance with the standards developed
• § 155 — The department may accept any gift of money or property from any person or group for the purpose of acquiring property for, and establishing and maintaining as a memorial to any person or group, a pla
• § 155.5 — The commission, to the extent constitutionally permitted and if it determines that such actions constitute a highway purpose, may allocate funds from the State Highway Account to match on an equal bas
• § 155.6 — Unless prohibited by federal laws or rules and regulations, the department may authorize the installation of coin-operated binocular or telescopic viewing machines at the vista point on the north end
• § 155.7 — (a) On or before April 1, 2018, the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, shall establish a Transportation Permitting Task Force consisting o
• § 1550 — (a) A board of supervisors may form special road maintenance districts and levy special taxes for road and highway purposes to this chapter.
• § 1550.1 — The board of supervisors may form special road maintenance districts in unincorporated areas of the county wholly outside of incorporated cities.
• § 1550.2 — The board of supervisors may levy a special tax pursuant to Article 3.
• § 1550.3 — All work done in special road maintenance districts shall be done by the county road commissioner and all laws relating to the expenditure of road funds raised by property taxes shall apply to the exp
• § 1552 — Except as otherwise provided in this code, all revenues from special taxes levied for highway and road purposes collected in each road district shall be expended for highway and road purposes within t
• § 156 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Fish passage” means the ability of an anadromous fish to access appropriate habitat at all points in its life cycle, including
• § 156.1 — (a) The Director of Transportation shall prepare an annual report describing the status of the department’s progress in locating, assessing, and remediating barriers to fish passage.
• § 156.2 — The department shall pursue development of a programmatic environmental review process with appropriate state and federal regulatory agencies for remediating barriers to fish passage that will streaml
• § 156.3 — For any project using state or federal transportation funds programmed after January 1, 2006, the department shall ensure that, if the project affects a stream crossing on a stream where anadromous fi
• § 156.4 — For any repair or construction project using state or federal transportation funds that affects a stream crossing on a stream where anadromous fish are, or historically were, found, the department sha
• § 156.5 — (a) The Department of Fish and Wildlife shall identify projects described in this article that present the most significant barriers to fish passage.
• § 157 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority granted to the Department of Transportation under this act is restricted to the specific program for which funds are appropriated in Item 2660-30
• § 157.1 — The department, through the Treasurer and the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, may issue Clean Renewable Energy Bonds for purposes of financing the acquis
• § 157.2 — (a) The net proceeds of bonds issued under this article shall be deposited in the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds Subaccount, which is hereby established as a special trust fund in the Special Deposit Fu
• § 157.4 — (a) In conjunction with the issuance of bonds pursuant to Section 157.
• § 157.6 — The solar energy systems funded pursuant to this article may utilize, and shall comply with, either the net energy metering program allowable under Section 2827 of the Public Utilities Code or the fee
• § 157.8 — On or before March 1 of each fiscal year, and until maturity of the bonds issued pursuant to this article, the department shall report to the budget committees of each house of the Legislature with re
• § 158 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Connectivity area” includes any of the following: (1) An area identified by any federal or state agency that meets the needs for a s
• § 158.1 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department review the full extent of the state highway system, as currently maintained, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and wi
• § 158.2 — (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), for any project on the state highway system located in a connectivity area beginning the project initiation phase on or after July 1, 2025, that adds a t
• § 158.3 — On or before July 1, 2025, the department shall update appropriate design guidance, including the Highway Design Manual, to incorporate design concepts for wildlife passage features and related standa
• § 158.4 — (a) The Transportation Wildlife Connectivity Remediation Program is hereby established to be administered by the department, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, for the purposes
• § 158.5 — (a) The department shall submit a report to the relevant policy committees and the budget committees of the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on or before July 1, 20
• § 1580 — The boards of supervisors, in their respective counties, shall audit all claims on the funds set apart for highway purposes and specify the funds from which the whole or any part of any claim shall be
• § 16 — “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
• § 160 — The width of the right-of-way for all state highways shall be at least 40 feet.
• § 161 — On construction projects, the department shall install on the surface of state highways upon which the operation of bicycles is permitted only those types of grates which are not hazardous to bicycle
• § 162 — (a) Unless the commission finds that it would be impractical, any state highway exclusive and preferential lane for buses and other high occupancy vehicles constructed on new alignment or new structur
• § 162.5 — (a) The department shall develop revised seismic standards for earthquake resistance to be utilized in the design and construction of new state highways and bridges, and for the retrofit of existing h
• § 1622 — All amounts paid to each county, out of money derived from the Highway Users Tax Fund shall be deposited in a “road fund” which each board of supervisors shall establish for that purpose.
• § 1623 — The board of supervisors of any county may expend any portion of the amounts thus received by that county in the construction, maintenance, improvement or repair of streets, bridges, and culverts with
• § 1623.5 — None of the amounts paid to the counties shall be used for the construction or improvement of any highway or street if the contract for such construction or improvement specifies the use of any patent
• § 1624 — The board of supervisors of any county may, as provided in Section 1625, expend any portion of the amounts paid to that county, and deposited in the road fund, for the acquisition of rights-of-way and
• § 1625 — Where such authorization is given, the board of supervisors of the county desiring the construction may: (a) Expend, through its own officers or agencies, the amounts authorized by section 1624.
• § 1626 — Power hereby is granted to the board of supervisors of any county, to construct, maintain, improve and repair any county highway which in whole or in part forms the boundary line between said county a
• § 1627 — The board of supervisors of any county, by resolution adopted by four-fifths of the members thereof, may establish a county highway right of way acquisition revolving fund, to be used in acquiring rig
• § 1628 — The board of supervisors of any county which has established a county highway right of way acquisition revolving fund, may by resolution call an election to obtain authorization for the issuance and s
• § 1629 — The board of supervisors of any county which has established a county highway right of way acquisition revolving fund may place on deposit in such fund any moneys available to such county for county h
• § 163 — The Legislature, through the enactment of this section, intends to establish a policy for the use of all transportation funds that are available to the state, including the State Highway Account, the
• § 1630 — The board of supervisors may use any appropriate method of funding the planning, designing, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and operation of the county expressw
• § 164 — (a) Funds made available for transportation capital improvement projects under subdivision (e) of Section 163 shall be programmed and expended for the following program categories: (1) Twenty-five per
• § 164.1 — (a) Federal funds derived from apportionments made to the state under Section 1101(a)(11) of the federal Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-L
• § 164.10 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.11 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.12 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.13 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.14 — For purposes of Section 164.
• § 164.15 — For purposes of Section 164.
• § 164.16 — For purposes of Section 164.
• § 164.17 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.18 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.19 — For purposes of Section 164.
• § 164.20 — For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 164.
• § 164.3 — The interregional road system shall include, and shall be limited to, those routes that are specified in Sections 164.
• § 164.53 — (a) A local agency may request authorization from the commission to make advance expenditures of funds, other than state or federal funds, for a project which is included in the priority list for the
• § 164.56 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to allocate seven million dollars ($7,000,000) annually to the Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program Fund, which is hereby created.
• § 164.6 — (a) (1) The department shall prepare a State Highway System Management Plan.
• § 165 — The department shall prepare and submit to the Governor a proposed budget.
• § 1650 — For the purposes of this article, the unencumbered funds of the district are the sum of all money, uncollected taxes, and other uncollected accounts belonging to or due to such district, in excess of
• § 1651 — Whenever any territory is included in any city, either at the original incorporation of such city, or by subsequent annexation thereto, and such territory constitutes all or part of a road district, t
• § 1652 — The assessor shall then ascertain from his records the assessed value of such incorporated or annexed property on the lien date and shall certify to the county auditor such value thus ascertained.
• § 1653 — The auditor shall then calculate the proportion that the assessed value, on the preceding lien date of the property annexed or incorporated bears to the total assessed value, as of that day, of all th
• § 1654 — Such city shall repay to the county its proportion of all taxes for highway purposes on the annexed or incorporated portion of such district which are subsequently refunded or canceled.
• § 166 — The portion of the proposed budget to be funded from the State Highway Account shall be included in the printed fiscal year budget submitted to the Legislature.
• § 166.5 — In order to support its proposed budgets and to improve its program management, the Department of Transportation shall develop budgeting, accounting, fiscal control, and management information systems
• § 167 — (a) Funds in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund shall be programmed, budgeted subject to Section 163, and expended to maximize the use of federal funds and shall be based on th
• § 1670 — The board of supervisors of any county may enter into cooperative agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or other properly authorized officer of the United States, for the
• § 1671 — The agreements shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions of Section 8 of the act of Congress, approved July 11, 1916, entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in
• § 1672 — Upon request of the proper officer of the United States, together with the order of the board of supervisors of the county, the county treasurer shall deposit with the Federal Reserve Bank to the cred
• § 1680 — The board of supervisors of any county may, by a resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of its members, determine that any of the following activities are of general county interest and that county
• § 1681 — Such resolution shall specify the proposed new or existing street or portion of street, the general nature of the improvement proposed, the nature of the aid to be furnished by the county, and any fun
• § 1682 — Thereafter and in accordance with such resolution the county may give aid in one or more of the following ways: (a) Contribute money.
• § 1683 — The expense of such aid may be paid from one or more of the following: (a) The county general fund.
• § 1684 — The city shall use all aid which it receives in the activities described in the resolution and shall return to the county any portion of such aid which is not thus used.
• § 1685 — Boards of supervisors may enter into contracts or agreements with the legislative body of any city for the purposes specified in Section 1803.
• § 1686 — The Legislature hereby finds that the improvement and maintenance of all city streets is of general county interest.
• § 169 — For the purposes of this code, except as provided in Section 170, the date of the award of a contract and of the commencement of a day-labor project shall be deemed the time when the entire obligation
• § 17 — “Oath” includes affirmation.
• § 170 — Where it is estimated by the department that the work involved in a project to be constructed under the State Contract Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10100) of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Pub
• § 170.5 — Notwithstanding Section 13302 of the Government Code, the department may, with respect to any project which will not be completed within a fiscal year, finance the project on a cash basis if the depar
• § 1700 — The board of supervisors of any county may, by a resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of its members, declare any highway in the county lying in whole or in part within a city to be a county highw
• § 1701 — A copy of such resolution shall be forwarded to the governing body of the city within which is included any portion of the highway.
• § 1702 — Thereafter the board of supervisors of the county may acquire rights-of-way for, construct, maintain, improve, or repair such highway in the same manner as other county highways, and may pay for such
• § 1703 — Nothing contained in this article shall limit in any manner the police power of any city with reference to any such street or portion of street improved under the provisions of this article.
• § 1704 — At any time after all or a portion of a city street becomes a county highway, as provided in this article, and all improvements commenced by the county, or its agents thereon, have been fully complete
• § 1705 — Whenever county bonds are voted or a special tax is levied for paving a county highway, and the natural course of such highway runs into or through any city, the board of supervisors shall pave within
• § 1706 — Whenever a city permits a county to use the city streets and highways for the purpose of constructing and maintaining any highway or boulevard as part of a county system of roads pursuant to Section 1
• § 171 — Prior to the commencement of each fiscal year, the department may advertise for bids for capital outlay projects anticipated to be budgeted during the fiscal year.
• § 1710 — A city and a county may agree that the city shall construct, repair and maintain designated county highways or portions thereof within the unincorporated territory of the county, the cost thereof to b
• § 1711 — A county and a city may agree that the county shall construct, repair or maintain designated county highways, or portions thereof, within the unincorporated territory of the county, the cost thereof t
• § 1712 — (a) A county and a city or cities may join in the acquisition of rights-of-way, construction, maintenance, improvement, or repair of bicycle routes or paths, or portions thereof, located within or wit
• § 1720 — This article provides an alternative procedure for the establishment of a county highway within a city.
• § 1721 — The board of supervisors by resolution may determine that it is of general county interest that an existing street in the county extending in whole or in part within a city be made a county highway wi
• § 1722 — The governing body of the city, by resolution, may consent to the establishment of the proposed county highway and may relinquish to the county in whole or in part an existing city street.
• § 1723 — Upon the adoption of the resolution of consent by the city, such street or portion thereof within the city shall thereupon constitute a county highway.