California Streets and Highways Code CHAPTER 9 - District Powers

• Section 27160.
  The district shall have perpetual succession and acting through the board shall have the powers prescribed in this chapter in addition to any others expressly...
• Section 27161.
  The district may sue and be sued in its corporate name in all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.(Added by...
• Section 27162.
  The district may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)
• Section 27163.
  The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or otherwise acquire, and hold, use, and enjoy, real and personal property of every...
• Section 27164.
  The district may acquire, or contract to acquire, and may construct under contract, or by its own employees, maintain, improve, and operate bridges, abutments, rights-of-way,...
• Section 27165.
  The district may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation, or lease from the United States, this State, or from any person, or public or private...
• Section 27166.
  The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary to the exercise of the powers granted in this part, or...
• Section 27167.
  The district may borrow money, incur indebtedness and issue bonds or other evidences of such indebtedness; and refund or retire any indebtedness or lien that...
• Section 27168.
  The district may purchase or condemn any works which might be constructed by the district, whether completed or partly completed, and conduct and manage the...
• Section 27169.
  The district may have taxes levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of this part for the purpose of paying running expenses, organization expenses...
• Section 27170.
  The district may make contracts, employ labor, and all kinds of employees, whether skilled or unskilled, for the purpose of carrying on the business of...
• Section 27171.
  The district may establish all necessary rules, regulation or conditions under which the property of the district may be used by the public and fix...
• Section 27172.
  The district may do all things necessary for the complete exercise of the powers described in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)
• Section 27173.
  The work of constructing, repairing, relocating, or otherwise providing any of the highways or approaches composed of the structures or improvements mentioned in Part 3...
• Section 27173.8.
  Every purchase or contract made in violation of the competitive bidding requirements of this part shall be void.(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 1472.)
• Section 27174.
  The district may contract with the State for the construction, repair or relocation of highways or approaches to any structure or improvement maintained or operated...
• Section 27174.1.
  (a) The district may adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the Vehicle Code for the control of traffic on any facility of travel constructed by...
• Section 27174.2.
  (a) Every person who, without permission of the board or its authorized officers or agents, climbs upon any railing, cable, suspender rope, tower, or superstructure of...
• Section 27174.3.
  Every person who stands in the roadway or on the sidewalk of any district toll bridge, or the approaches thereto, for the purpose of soliciting...
• Section 27175.
  The district shall cause to be published and made available to the public at the toll gates of any facilities of travel constructed by the...
• Section 27176.
  Violation of any rules or regulations provided for in Section 27174.1, notice of which has been given by a sign on the facility of travel...
• Section 27177.
  The California Highway Patrol shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to provide for proper and adequate policing of all facilities of...
• Section 27177.5.
  A towing service may be maintained by a bridge and highway district on each vehicular crossing under its jurisdiction, and said district may furnish such...
• Section 27178.
  Within the district, the Department of Transportation may restrict any portion of a state highway to a particular mode of vehicular transportation during such hours...
• Section 27179.
  A bridge and highway district may contract with the State to furnish regular highway patrol officers to serve for 24-hour police or patrol duty on...

Last modified: October 22, 2018