California Streets and Highways Code CHAPTER 6 - Obstructions and Injuries to County Highways

  • Section 1480.
    As used in this chapter:(a) The term “highway” includes all or any part of the entire width of right of way of a county highway, whether...
  • Section 1480.5.
    The road commissioner may immediately remove, or by notice may require the removal of, any of the following encroachments:(a) An encroachment which obstructs or prevents the...
  • Section 1481.
    The road commissioner may, by notice, require the removal of any other encroachment not specified in Section 1480.5 from any county highway.(Amended by Stats. 1971,...
  • Section 1482.
    The notice referred to in Sections 1480.5 and 1481 shall be served upon the occupant or owner of the land, or the person causing, controlling...
  • Section 1483.
    If the encroachment is not removed, or its removal not commenced and diligently prosecuted, prior to the expiration of 10 days from and after the...
  • Section 1484.
    If the encroachment is denied, and the owner or occupant of the land, or the person causing, owning or controlling the alleged encroachment refuses either...
  • Section 1485.
    If the encroachment is not denied, but is not removed within five days from and after service or posting of the notice, the road commissioner...
  • Section 1486.
    Gates shall not be allowed on any county highway except gates allowed by the board of supervisors in accordance with the provisions of section 966....
  • Section 1487.
    A person who, by means of ditches or dams, obstructs or injures any county highway, diverts any watercourse into any county highway, or drains water...
  • Section 1488.
    (a) A person who, in storing or distributing water for any purpose, permits water to overflow or by seepage to saturate a county highway, to the...
  • Section 1488.5.
    The notice referred to in Sections 1487 and 1488 shall be given in the same manner as provided in Section 1482, except that the action...
  • Section 1489.
    Unless a bridge is constructed in accordance with Section 1490, all persons excavating irrigation, mining or drainage ditches across county highways shall construct bridges across...
  • Section 1490.
    The board of supervisors of any county may construct and maintain bridges over any ditches which are used exclusively for irrigation purposes and which cross...
  • Section 1491.
    Any person who wilfully injures any county bridge is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is also liable for actual damages for such injury, to be...
  • Section 1492.
    Any person who wilfully removes or injures any mile-board, milestone or guide-post, or any inscription thereon, erected on any county highway, is liable for a...
  • Section 1492.5.
    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. 11....
  • Section 1493.
    Any person may notify the occupant or owner of any land, from which a tree or other obstruction has fallen upon any county highway, to...
  • Section 1494.
    Any person who cuts down a tree which falls into any county highway shall immediately remove the tree, and is liable for a penalty of...
  • Section 1495.
    Any person who maliciously digs up, cuts down, injures or destroys any shade or ornamental tree on any county highway, unless such tree is considered...
  • Section 1496.
    The road commissioner shall recover all penalties or forfeitures given in this chapter and the recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, by suit...

Last modified: October 22, 2018