California Code
Streets and Highways Code - SHC
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This act shall be known as the Streets and...

Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code, in so far as...

Section 5. - 5. Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires,...

Section 6. - 6. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein...

Section 7. - 7. Whenever any power or authority is given to, or...

Section 8. - 8. Whenever any notice, report, petition, permit, statement or record...

Section 9. - 9. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of...

Section 10. - 10. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...

Section 11. - 11. The present tense includes the past and future tenses;...

Section 12. - 12. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. (Enacted...

Section 12.2. - 12.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 13. - 13. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural...

Section 14. - 14. “County” includes “city and county.” (Enacted by Stats. 1935,...

Section 15. - 15. “City” includes “city and county” and “incorporated town.” (Enacted...

Section 16. - 16. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. (Enacted by...

Section 17. - 17. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.)

Section 18. - 18. “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or...

Section 19. - 19. “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization,...

Section 20. - 20. “Department” means the Department of Transportation of this state....

Section 21. - 21. “Director” means the director of the department. (Enacted by...

Section 22. - 22. Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires,...

Section 22.5. - 22.5. Whenever the term “Business, Transportation and Housing Agency” appears...

Section 23. - 23. As used in this code, unless the particular provision...

Section 23.5. - 23.5. “Freeway” means a highway in respect to which the...

Section 24. - 24. As used in this code, “State highway” means any...

Section 25. - 25. As used in this code, “county highway” means any...

Section 26. - 26. As used in the general provisions and in Divisions...

Section 27. - 27. As used in the general provisions and in Divisions...

Section 28. - 28. If any provision of this code, or the application...

Section 29. - 29. “Construction” includes: (a) Acquisition of rights-of-way and material sites...

Section 30. - 30. “State Highway Account” means the State Highway Account in...

Section 35. - 35. “Vista point” means any signed roadside area on the...

Section 36. - 36. For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or...