California Streets and Highways Code ARTICLE 2 - California Transportation Commission

• Section 70.
  (a) The California Highway Commission is hereby abolished, and the California Transportation Commission succeeds to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and...
• Section 70.2.
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Legislature to provide for advance planning and continuity of fiscal policy in the construction and...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 74.
  Any city or county aggrieved by any decision of the department, under the provisions of Division 3 (commencing with Section 2004.5) or under the provisions...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 80.
  The commission shall act by resolution or by vote or order entered in its minutes.(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 436.)
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 83.
  Any public street or highway or portion thereof which is within the boundaries of a state highway, including a traversable highway adopted or designated as...
• Section 84.
  Before the department commences the construction of any state highway or of any bridge, viaduct, conduit, pipe, trestle, or other obstruction in connection therewith across...
• Section 84.5.
  During the design hearing process relating to state highway projects that include the construction by the department of a new bridge across a navigable river,...
• Section 85.
  In order to provide the commission with an independent evaluation of routing proposals as the commission may desire from time to time, the commission may...
• Section 86.
  The commission may delegate to the department any ministerial or administrative power, duty, responsibility, or function of the commission. The delegations authorized herein shall be...

Last modified: October 22, 2018