California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Sections 940-991
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 940
Boards of supervisors shall have general supervision, management, and control of the county highways. ...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 941
(a) Boards of supervisors shall, by proper order, cause those highways which are necessary to public convenience to be established, recorded, constructed, and maintained in...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 941.1
The board of supervisors may lay out, acquire, construct, and maintain any section or portion of any street or highway within the county as a...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 941.2
Boards of supervisors may close any street or highway within their jurisdiction at or near the point of its intersection with any freeway, or may...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 941.3
Before taking any action authorized by Section 941.2 affecting any state highway, such action must be approved by the Department of Public Works. ...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 941.4
(a) The board of supervisors, with the consent of any city in which the proposed system is located, in whole or in part, may designate...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 941.6
If the boundary line between two adjacent counties lies within a county highway, the boards of supervisors of the affected counties may, by agreement, provide...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 942
Such boards may enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for the construction, improvement or maintenance of county highways, and for the protection, supervision, management, control,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 942.5
The board of supervisors may restrict the use of, or close, any county highway whenever the board considers such closing or restriction of use necessary:...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 942.6
The board of supervisors may delegate the powers contained in Section 942.5 to the county road commissioner. ...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 943
Such board may: (a) Acquire any property necessary for the uses and purposes of county highways. When eminent domain proceedings are necessary, the board shall...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 944
No bonded indebtedness shall be incurred for any purpose specified in section 943 until after the question of the issue of bonds therefor has been...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 945
Such boards may expend from the county general fund the moneys necessary to pay the whole or any part of the cost of the improvement...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 946
No liability shall be created against the county in connection with any such improvement conducted by a city unless the board, by resolution, determines and...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 947
Every instrument or judgment which constitutes evidence of title to a right of way, or incident thereto, in relation to county highways shall particularly describe...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 948
The board of supervisors of each county shall cause to be recorded with the county recorder, in relation to every county highway within the county,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 949
The board of supervisors may plant shade and ornamental trees on the county highways, and provide for their care. The cost of planting and caring...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 950
For the purpose of sprinkling county highways with oil or water, the board of supervisors may erect or maintain waterworks, tanks or reservoirs, and may...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 951
(a) Such board may set apart on any county highway a strip of land for a side path, and make an order designating the width...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 952
Such board shall cause properly inscribed guideposts to be erected and maintained at all county highway crossings and forks lying outside of any city. ...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 953
A board of supervisors may, acting separately or in conjunction with State or Federal agencies, or with another county, burn or remove debris, rubbish, brush,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 954
All county highways which for a period of five consecutive years are impassable for vehicular travel, and on which during such period of time no...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 954.5
(a) The board of supervisors may, by resolution, terminate the maintenance of any county highway if it finds that the highway is unnecessary for the...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 954.6
(a) A board of supervisors, by resolution, may terminate the maintenance of all or a portion of a county highway if it finds that another...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 960
Whenever the board of supervisors determines that any real property, or interest therein, acquired by the county for highway purposes is no longer necessary for...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 960.5
The term "county highway" as used in Sections 954 and 954.5 shall be deemed to include, but not be limited to, any public highway, road,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 960.6
The board of supervisors may, by ordinance or resolution, delegate to a county official, subject to rules or regulations as the board may impose, the...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 964
Whenever the board finds that any county highway has been damaged or is in danger of being damaged by storm waters or floods, the board...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 965
The board of supervisors shall, by order, direct the district attorney of the county to institute eminent domain proceedings, in the name of the county,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 969.6
Notwithstanding Section 969.5 or any other provision of this code, if a state of local emergency is declared by the board of supervisors as a...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 985
The board of supervisors may construct, install and maintain cattle guards on or adjacent to the county highways. The cost of constructing, installing, and maintaining...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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,...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
- California Laws: Streets and Highways Code Section 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...
