SECTIONS 1550-1552 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 1550-1552

1550. (a) A board of supervisors may form special road maintenance
districts and levy special taxes for road and highway purposes to
this chapter.
(b) Nothing contained in this section shall authorize any property
tax for highway purposes to be levied or collected by a county
within any city wherein work and improvements upon the streets are
done by virtue of any law relating to street work and improvements
within such a city.

1550.1. The board of supervisors may form special road maintenance
districts in unincorporated areas of the county wholly outside of
incorporated cities. Formation of these districts may be ordered by
the board when in its opinion additional road funds are necessary to
properly maintain highways and roads in specific unincorporated areas
of the county. These districts shall be formed by order of the board
setting forth the boundaries thereof. A district shall be in
existence until the board shall by its order discontinue the
district. If a district is to be formed, the board shall set a date
for a hearing on the formation. This hearing shall not be held in
less than three weeks after the date of the order for the hearing,
and prior to the date of the hearing, a notice of the hearing shall
be published twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the area,
and, in addition, at least three notices shall be posted in public
places within the proposed district. At the hearing, protests, if
any, shall be heard on the proposed formation of the district. It
shall be within the power of the board to determine from the results
of the hearing the necessity for the special road maintenance
district, and, if it be deemed necessary, the district may be formed.

1550.2. The board of supervisors may levy a special tax pursuant to
Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1
of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code, and spend the
proceeds for the purposes of this chapter.

1550.3. All work done in special road maintenance districts shall
be done by the county road commissioner and all laws relating to the
expenditure of road funds raised by property taxes shall apply to the
expenditures of said districts.

1552. Except as otherwise provided in this code, all revenues from
special taxes levied for highway and road purposes collected in each
road district shall be expended for highway and road purposes within
the district in which collected.
The board of supervisors shall cause such tax collected each year
to be apportioned to the several road districts entitled thereto, and
to be kept by the county treasurer in separate funds.