California Streets and Highways Code ARTICLE 3 - Nuisance and Penal Provisions

• Section 720.
  If any encroachment exists in, under or over any State highway, the department may require the removal of such encroachment in the manner provided in...
• Section 721.
  The department may immediately remove from any state highway any encroachment that:(a) Is not removed, or the removal of which is not commenced and thereafter diligently...
• Section 722.
  The department may remove an encroachment on the failure of the owner to comply with a notice or demand of the department under the provisions...
• Section 723.
  If the owner, occupant, or person in possession of the encroachment, or person causing or suffering the encroachment to exist, or the agent of any...
• Section 724.
  Unless the encroachment is authorized under Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), any person owning, controlling, or placing, or causing or suffering to exist, any...
• Section 725.
  It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following acts:(a) Drain water, or permit water to be drained, from his lands onto any...
• Section 726.
  When notice thereof is given by the department, in the manner provided by section 720, to any person permitting or suffering such damage to be...
• Section 727.
  If a person is thus notified, and fails, neglects, or refuses to cease and discontinue the diversion, to discontinue and prevent the drainage, seepage, or...
• Section 728.
  Any person proposing or desiring to excavate or construct ditches in, under or over any State highway, to carry water for any purpose, shall construct,...
• Section 729.
  Upon the neglect or refusal of any person to comply with the provisions of section 728, the department may construct any such crossing and may...
• Section 730.
  Any person who by any means wilfully or negligently injures or damages any State highway is liable for the repair thereof, and the department, in...
• Section 730.5.
  Any person who by any means, without a permit issued by the department, digs up, cuts down, destroys, prunes, trims, or otherwise injures any tree...
• Section 731.
  Any vehicle or structure parked or placed wholly or partly within any state highway, for the purpose of selling the same or of selling therefrom...
• Section 731.5.
  Section 731 does not apply to a coin-activated or credit card-activated telephone available for public use shared and maintained within any bus passenger shelter lawfully...
• Section 732.
  Any person who wilfully injures, defaces, breaks down or removes any monument or stake placed, erected or used by the department to designate any point...
• Section 732.5.
  Survey monuments shall be preserved, referenced, or replaced pursuant to Section 8771 of the Business and Professions Code.(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 458, Sec. 10....
• Section 733.
  All money recovered under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into any fund which is available to the department for highway purposes and...
• Section 734.
  The procedure provided in this article is not exclusive and shall not prohibit the department from exercising any other remedy provided by law to prevent...

Last modified: October 22, 2018