SECTIONS 8300-8309 - California Statutes

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE

SECTION 8300-8309

8300. This part may be cited as the Public Streets, Highways, and
Service Easements Vacation Law.

8301. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the
definitions in this chapter shall govern the construction of this
part.

8302. "Adoption" of a resolution includes passage or enactment of a
resolution.

8303. "Clerk" includes a person or officer who is the clerk of a
legislative body.

8304. "Legislative body" means:
(a) In the case of a county or city and county, the board of
supervisors.
(b) In the case of a city, the city council or other body which,
by law, is the legislative body of the government of the city.
(c) In the case of the California Transportation Commission, the
commission.

8305. "Local agency" means a county, city, or city and county.

8305.5. "Public entity" means a local agency or the California
Transportation Commission.

8306. "Public service easement" includes all or part of, or any
right in:
(a) A right-of-way, easement, or use restriction acquired for
public use by dedication or otherwise for sewers, pipelines,
polelines, electrical transmission and communication lines, pathways,
storm drains, drainage, canal, water transmission lines, light and
air, and other limited use public easements other than for street or
highway purposes.
(b) An easement or right of a type described in Section 8340.

8306.5. "Public utility" means a public utility as defined in
Section 216 of the Public Utilities Code.

8307. "Resolution" includes an ordinance.

8308. "Street" and "highway" include all or part of, or any right
in, a state highway or other public highway, road, street, avenue,
alley, lane, driveway, place, court, trail, or other public
right-of-way or easement, or purported public street or highway, and
rights connected therewith, including, but not limited to,
restrictions of access or abutters' rights, sloping easements, or
other incidents to a street or highway.

8309. "Vacation" means the complete or partial abandonment or
termination of the public right to use a street, highway, or public
service easement.