California Streets and Highways Code CHAPTER 2 - Powers and Duties of Boards of Supervisors

• Section 940.
  Boards of supervisors shall have general supervision, management, and control of the county highways.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)
• 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 the...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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.(Added by Stats....
• 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 a...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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:(a) For...
• Section 942.6.
  The board of supervisors may delegate the powers contained in Section 942.5 to the county road commissioner.(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 488.)
• 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 require the...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 of...
• 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.(Enacted by...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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 public...
• 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 public...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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 fences....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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, including the...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018