California Code
DIVISION 1 - STATE HIGHWAYS
CHAPTER 3 - The Care and Protection of State Highways

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 660. - 660. As used in this chapter: (a) “Highway” includes all,...

Section 661. - 661. In addition to persons, public corporations, and districts specified...

ARTICLE 2 - Permit Provisions

Section 670. - 670. (a) The department may issue written permits, as provided...

Section 670.1. - 670.1. (a) The department may issue a permit to the...

Section 670.5. - 670.5. (a) The Flag of the United States of America...

Section 671. - 671. Any act done under the authority of a written...

Section 671.1. - 671.1. The department may establish a fee schedule and charge...

Section 671.5. - 671.5. (a) The department shall either approve or deny an...

Section 672. - 672. Any permit issued under the provisions of this chapter...

Section 673. - 673. (a) Any permit issued to a permittee of the...

Section 674. - 674. The department may, but is not required to, supervise...

Section 675. - 675. (a) Permittees may excavate openings in state highways to...

Section 676. - 676. The department may delegate to any city any of...

Section 677. - 677. Before granting a permit under any provision of this...

Section 678. - 678. Except as otherwise provided in this section, such a...

Section 679. - 679. Any city, municipal utility district, municipal water district or...

Section 680. - 680. Whenever a franchise is granted by any county or...

Section 680.5. - 680.5. The department and any utility as defined in Section...

Section 681. - 681. Whenever a franchise shall have been granted by any...

Section 682. - 682. Every city and county shall have power to grant...

Section 682.5. - 682.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 731, the department may issue permits...

Section 682.7. - 682.7. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Event” means...

Section 683. - 683. No franchise of any kind shall be granted in...

Section 684. - 684. No franchise shall be granted for the installation of...

Section 685. - 685. In case a franchise is granted for the exercise...

Section 686. - 686. The department shall approve any franchise submitted for approval...

Section 687. - 687. Franchises may be granted under this article separately as...

Section 688. - 688. In cases in which the approval of the department...

Section 689. - 689. No privilege shall be exercised in any state highway...

Section 690. - 690. The department shall have the power to prescribe the...

Section 691. - 691. In the exercise within the limits of any State...

Section 692. - 692. Independently of or jointly with the grantor city or...

Section 693. - 693. All sums payable by the grantee under any such...

Section 694. - 694. All franchises heretofore granted by any city for the...

Section 695. - 695. Failure of the department to act upon any application...

ARTICLE 2.5 - Special Provisions re Utilities in Freeways

Section 700. - 700. (a) “Person,” in addition to the definition in Section...

Section 701. - 701. This article is limited to state highways which are...

Section 702. - 702. Whenever the department requires any utility to remove any...

Section 703. - 703. Whenever the department requires a publicly owned utility to...

Section 704. - 704. If the department requires the relocation within the right...

Section 705. - 705. In any case in which the department is required...

Section 706. - 706. The department and any utility required to remove a...

Section 706.5. - 706.5. In connection with the construction of State Highway Route...

Section 707. - 707. In the event of failure to reach an agreement...

Section 707.5. - 707.5. (A) The department and any utility as defined in...

Section 708. - 708. Every utility is entitled to a permit for such...

Section 709. - 709. The department shall exercise a reasonable discretion in acting...

Section 710. - 710. The department, in acting upon applications for utility permits,...

Section 711. - 711. Nothing in this article is intended to prevent the...

ARTICLE 3 - Nuisance and Penal Provisions

Section 720. - 720. If any encroachment exists in, under or over any...

Section 721. - 721. The department may immediately remove from any state highway...

Section 722. - 722. The department may remove an encroachment on the failure...

Section 723. - 723. If the owner, occupant, or person in possession of...

Section 724. - 724. Unless the encroachment is authorized under Article 2 (commencing...

Section 725. - 725. It is unlawful for any person to do any...

Section 726. - 726. When notice thereof is given by the department, in...

Section 727. - 727. If a person is thus notified, and fails, neglects,...

Section 728. - 728. Any person proposing or desiring to excavate or construct...

Section 729. - 729. Upon the neglect or refusal of any person to...

Section 730. - 730. Any person who by any means wilfully or negligently...

Section 730.5. - 730.5. Any person who by any means, without a permit...

Section 731. - 731. Any vehicle or structure parked or placed wholly or...

Section 731.5. - 731.5. Section 731 does not apply to a coin-activated or...

Section 732. - 732. Any person who wilfully injures, defaces, breaks down or...

Section 732.5. - 732.5. Survey monuments shall be preserved, referenced, or replaced pursuant...

Section 733. - 733. All money recovered under the provisions of this chapter...

Section 734. - 734. The procedure provided in this article is not exclusive...

ARTICLE 4 - Protection of Beds of Mapped Highways

Section 740. - 740. As used in this article: “Mapped highway” means a...

Section 740.2. - 740.2. Whenever the department has laid out and surveyed a...

Section 740.4. - 740.4. The department shall transmit a copy of such map...

Section 740.5. - 740.5. The department shall transmit a copy of such map,...

Section 740.6. - 740.6. A copy of the precised plan shall be filed...

Section 740.8. - 740.8. No person shall hereafter erect any building or structure,...

Section 741. - 741. Prior to issuing a building permit the officer whose...

Section 741.2. - 741.2. Any person aggrieved by the refusal of a building...

Section 741.4. - 741.4. The appeals board shall grant the permit if any...

Section 741.6. - 741.6. The appeals board shall not grant the permit if...

Section 741.7. - 741.7. Nothing in this article shall be deemed a condition...

Section 741.8. - 741.8. Nothing in this article shall be construed to restrict...

Section 741.9. - 741.9. The assessor, in assessing any property affected by the...

Section 742. - 742. If any provision of this article, or the application...

ARTICLE 5 - Control of Junkyards, Scrap Metal Processing Facilities, and Automobile Dismantling Facilities

Section 745. - 745. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The...

Section 746. - 746. As used in this article: (a) “Junk” means old...

Section 746.1. - 746.1. “Nonconforming junkyard” means either of the following: (a) A...

Section 746.2. - 746.2. Nonconforming junkyards may continue in existence as long as...

Section 746.3. - 746.3. An illegal junkyard is one which is either: (a)...

Section 747. - 747. Except as hereafter provided, no junkyard shall be established,...

Section 747.1. - 747.1. Sanitary landfills need not be screened to satisfy the...

Section 748. - 748. (a) Any nonconforming junkyard, as soon as the maximum...

Section 749. - 749. The department may also screen any junkyards located within...

Section 751. - 751. The department is authorized to acquire such interests in...

Section 751.1. - 751.1. The Legislature hereby declares that the acquisition of interests...

Section 752. - 752. If federal law should be interpreted as requiring the...

Section 753. - 753. The commission is authorized to allocate funds from the...

Section 754. - 754. Any junkyard which is established or maintained in violation...

Section 755. - 755. The director may screen, relocate, remove or dispose of...

Section 756. - 756. Every illegal junkyard is a public nuisance and every...

Section 757. - 757. The remedies provided in this article for the removal...

Section 758. - 758. The director may enter into agreements with the Secretary...

Section 759. - 759. The director shall prescribe and enforce regulations governing the...

Section 759.3. - 759.3. It is declared to be the intent of the...