California Streets and Highways Code PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Section 5000.
  This division may be cited as the Improvement Act of 1911.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• Section 5001.
  Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions contained in this part shall govern the construction of this division.(Added...
• Section 5002.
  This division provides an alternative system for doing the work authorized by this division and the provisions of this division shall not apply to or...
• Section 5003.
  This division shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. No error, irregularity, informality, and no neglect or omission of any officer, in...
• Section 5004.
  Whenever in any proceedings under this division, a time and place for any hearing by the legislative body is fixed and, from any cause, the...
• Section 5005.
  “City” includes counties, cities, cities and counties and all corporations organized and existing for municipal purposes, together with resort districts organized and existing under the...
• Section 5006.
  “Legislative body” when used with reference to a county means the board of supervisors, and when used with reference to a city means the body...
• Section 5007.
  “Clerk” when used with reference to a county means the person or officer who is the clerk of the legislative body of the county, and...
• Section 5008.
  “Treasurer” when used with reference to a county means the county treasurer, and when used with reference to a city means the city treasurer. “Treasurer”...
• Section 5009.
  “Mayor” when used with reference to a county means the chairman of the board of supervisors, and when used with reference to a city means...
• Section 5010.
  “Council chambers” refers to the place where the regular meetings of the legislative body of the county or city are held.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch.
• Section 5011.
  “Street superintendent” or “superintendent of streets” when used with reference to a county means the county surveyor, and when used with reference to a city...
• Section 5012.
  If there is no street superintendent or superintendent of streets in any city, the legislative body thereof may appoint a person to perform the duties...
• Section 5012.5.
  In a city in which there is a superintendent of streets or street superintendent, the legislative body of the city may nevertheless appoint another person...
• Section 5013.
  “Engineer” when applied to a county means the county surveyor, and when applied to a city means the city engineer.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• Section 5014.
  “Street” includes avenues, highways, lanes, alleys, crossings, or intersections and courts which have been dedicated and accepted according to law or which have been in...
• Section 5018.
  “Place” includes any public park or pleasure ground and common which has been dedicated and accepted according to law.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 79.)
• Section 5019.
  “Paved” or “repaved” includes pavement of stone, paving blocks or macadamizing, or of bituminous rock or asphalt, or of iron, wood or other material, whether...
• Section 5020.
  “Contractor” means the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization or business trust, and includes contracting owners or their agents, to whom a contract for the...
• Section 5021.
  “Owner” means the person owning the fee, or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears, by deed duly recorded in...
• Section 5022.
  “Lot,” “land,” “piece,” or “parcel of land” whether used singly or in combination include property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right...
• Section 5022.5.
  “Lot,” “portion of lot,” “land,” “piece,” or “parcel of land,” whether used singly or in combination, may, in the discretion of the superintendent of streets,...
• Section 5023.
  “Work” or “improvement” whether used singly or in combination mean and include any work which is authorized to be done or any improvement which is...
• Section 5023.1.
  “Acquisition,” or any of its variants, means one or more of the following:(a) Any works, improvements, appliances, or facilities which are authorized to be made, constructed,...
• Section 5024.
  “Incidental expense” includes all of the following:(a) Compensation for work done by the engineer, and attorney’s fees or services in proceedings pursuant to this division. Notwithstanding...
• Section 5025.
  In all resolutions, notices, orders and determinations, subsequent to the resolution of intention it shall not be necessary to describe the work, and any description...
• Section 5026.
  The legislative body of a county, city or city and county, may by resolution adopt a name for any street, boulevard, park or place which...

Last modified: October 22, 2018