SECTIONS 30840-30847 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 30840-30847

30840. No person shall construct or take tolls on a bridge or ferry
unless authorized by the governmental agency which has or had power
to issue a franchise therefor.

30841. Any person who without authority of law demands or receives
compensation for the use of any bridge or ferry or sets up or keeps
any road, bridge, ferry, or constructed ford for the purpose of
receiving any remuneration for its use is guilty of a misdemeanor.

30843. Any person who operates a motor vehicle over a toll bridge
or toll highway crossing and the approaches thereto constructed or
acquired by any bridge and highway district, at the entrance to which
appropriate signs have been erected to notify traffic that it is
entering upon a toll bridge crossing or its approaches and is subject
to the payment of tolls beyond the sign, is guilty of a misdemeanor
in each of the following cases:
(a) If the person refuses to pay the tolls.
(b) If the person turns, or attempts to turn, the vehicle around
in the bridge, approach, or toll plaza where signs have been erected
forbidding the turning.
(c) If the person refuses to pass through the toll gates after
having come within the area where signs have been erected notifying
traffic that it is entering the area where toll is collectible or
where vehicles may not turn around and where vehicles are required to
pass through the toll gates for the purpose of collecting tolls.

30844. Any person who maliciously injures or destroys any toll
house or gate is guilty of a misdemeanor.

30845. Any person who enters into an undertaking to keep and attend
a ferry and violates the conditions of such undertaking is guilty of
a misdemeanor.

30847. Every corporation incorporated for the purpose of operating
a toll bridge or toll ferry may be dissolved in any of the following
cases:
(a) If within one year after filing its articles of incorporation,
it has not obtained such authority from the governmental agency
having authority to issue a franchise therefor, and if within one
year thereafter it has not commenced the construction of the bridge,
and if within two years after obtaining such authority, there has not
been actually expended thereon a sum equal to at least 10 percent of
the issued capital stock of the corporation.
(b) If within seven years after the time the authority to
construct the bridge was granted, or any lawful extension thereof,
the bridge is not completed. The governmental agency may from time to
time by order extend the time of completion beyond seven years, if
the actual and physical work of constructing the bridge has been
diligently prosecuted from the time of commencement up to the time
that application for such extension is presented to it.
(c) If the bridge of the corporation is destroyed and is not
reconstructed and ready for use within three years thereafter.
(d) If the ferry of any such corporation is not in running order
within one year after authority is obtained to establish it, or if at
any time thereafter the corporation ceases for a like term
consecutively to perform the duties imposed by law.