SECTIONS 1700-1706 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 1700-1706

1700. The board of supervisors of any county may, by a resolution
adopted by a four-fifths vote of its members, declare any highway in
the county lying in whole or in part within a city to be a county
highway for one or more of the following purposes: acquisition of
rights-of-way, construction, maintenance, improvement, or repair.

1701. A copy of such resolution shall be forwarded to the governing
body of the city within which is included any portion of the
highway. Such governing body may consent to the establishment of such
included portion as a part of the county highway. Upon the taking
effect of an ordinance or resolution containing such consent, such
portion of such highway shall become a county highway for one or more
of the following purposes: acquisition of rights-of-way,
construction, maintenance, improvement, or repair.

1702. Thereafter the board of supervisors of the county may acquire
rights-of-way for, construct, maintain, improve, or repair such
highway in the same manner as other county highways, and may pay for
such work out of one or more of the following:
(a) The county general fund.
(b) The road fund.
(c) The proceeds of any county bond issue voted for the purpose of
laying out, constructing, maintaining, improving or repairing county
highways.
(d) Any other fund available for such purposes.

1703. Nothing contained in this article shall limit in any manner
the police power of any city with reference to any such street or
portion of street improved under the provisions of this article.

1704. At any time after all or a portion of a city street becomes a
county highway, as provided in this article, and all improvements
commenced by the county, or its agents thereon, have been fully
completed, the board of supervisors of such county may adopt a
resolution declaring that all or any portion of such street is no
longer a county highway. Ten days after the filing of such resolution
with the clerk of the city within which the street lies, such
street, or the portion thereof described in the resolution, shall
cease to be a county highway.

1705. Whenever county bonds are voted or a special tax is levied
for paving a county highway, and the natural course of such highway
runs into or through any city, the board of supervisors shall pave
within such city that portion of the highway which is designated by
the chief executive of the city and the county supervisor in whose
district such portion is located. Such highway portion shall be
constructed to standards equal to those of the highway approaching
such city. If such chief executive and such supervisor do not agree
as to what street will be thus designated, then the chairman of the
commission shall designate the street and his judgment shall be final
and conclusive.

1706. Whenever a city permits a county to use the city streets and
highways for the purpose of constructing and maintaining any highway
or boulevard as part of a county system of roads pursuant to Section
1850, the board of supervisors may construct and maintain such bridge
or bridges on such highway or boulevard within the city as it deems
necessary, and may macadamize, pave, curb, or gutter, such highway or
boulevard in such manner as it determines; and the cost or expense
thereof shall be paid from the general fund of the county.