California Streets and Highways Code ARTICLE 2.5 - Special Provisions re Utilities in Freeways

• Section 700.
  (a) “Person,” in addition to the definition in Section 19, includes any city, county, public corporation, or public district.(b) “Utility facility” means any pole, poleline, pipe, pipeline,...
• Section 701.
  This article is limited to state highways which are or shall become freeways. Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), except as inconsistent with this article,...
• Section 702.
  Whenever the department requires any utility to remove any utility facility lawfully maintained in the right of way of any freeway to a location entirely...
• Section 703.
  Whenever the department requires a publicly owned utility to relocate within a freeway any utility facility lawfully maintained in any freeway which was not a...
• Section 704.
  If the department requires the relocation within the right of way of any utility facility more than once within a period of 10 years, the...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 706.5.
  In connection with the construction of State Highway Route 86 in Imperial County from Post Miles 58.4 to Post Miles 65.1 and the relocation of...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018