TITLE 7.1. METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION [66500. - 66536.2.]
Title 7.1 repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 891.
§§ 66500–66536.2 · 34 sections
- § 66500 This title shall be known as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Act.
- § 66502 There is hereby created, as a local area planning agency and not as a part of the executive branch of the state government, the Metropolitan Transportation…
- § 66503 The commission shall consist of 21 members as follows: (a) Two members each from the City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of Contra Costa and San…
- § 66504 Each commissioner’s term of office is four years; provided, however, that the commissioners appointed by the Mayor of the City of Oakland and the Mayor of the…
- § 66504.1 The members shall serve without compensation, but shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the performance of…
- § 66505 The commission shall appoint an executive director who shall have charge of administering the affairs of the commission, subject to the direction and policies…
- § 66506 The commission may: (a) Accept grants, contributions, and appropriations from any public agency, private foundation, or individual. (b) Appoint committees from…
- § 66507 The commission shall assume the planning and related responsibilities of the Bay Area Transportation Study Commission and its interim successor, the Regional…
- § 66508 The commission shall adopt, by June 30, 1973, a regional transportation plan for the region. Prior to the adoption of such a plan, the operation, construction,…
- § 66509 In developing the regional transportation plan, the commission shall consider: (a) The plan recommended by the Bay Area Transportation Study Commission, with…
- § 66510 The regional transportation plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following segments of the regional transportation system: (a) The national system of…
- § 66511 The regional transportation plan shall also include an estimate of the regional transportation needs during the ensuing 10 years and a schedule of priorities…
- § 66512 In addition, the regional transportation plan shall include a financial plan for the regional transportation system. The financial plan shall include a…
- § 66513 The regional transportation plan shall be subjected to continuous review by the commission, with revisions prepared as the need may arise. The commission shall…
- § 66513.5 (a) The commission shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 31, 2026, on its forecast of the impacts to ridership on the Alameda-Contra…
- § 66514 The construction of any transbay bridge in the region shall not be commenced without the approval of the commission. This section shall not apply to…
- § 66515 No public multicounty transit system using an exclusive right-of-way which is proposed to be constructed within the region shall be constructed or operated…
- § 66515.5 Any public multicounty transit system entirely within the region using an exclusive right-of-way shall incorporate physical characteristics compatible with the…
- § 66516 The commission, in coordination with the regional transit coordinating council established by the commission pursuant to Section 29142.4 of the Public…
- § 66516.5 The commission may do the following: (a) In consultation with the regional transit coordinating council, identify those functions performed by individual…
- § 66517 The commission shall render all available assistance to transit systems operated within the region by any city or public agency to ensure adequate feeder…
- § 66517.5 The commission shall develop regional transit service objectives, develop performance measures of efficiency and effectiveness, specify uniform data…
- § 66518 When allocating funds for construction on the state highway system within the region, the California Transportation Commission shall conform to the regional…
- § 66520 Any application to the federal or state government for any grant of money, whether an outright or a matching grant, by any county, city and county, city, or…
- § 66521 (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that the federal government, the state, and local agencies in the region will participate in support of the…
- § 66522 The commission shall merge with or otherwise join any multifunctional regional government organization, if it has transportation planning responsibilities,…
- § 66525 The commission shall administer any county transportation expenditure plan which includes a provision that the commission shall implement a retail transactions…
- § 66530 The commission shall continue to actively, on behalf of the entire region, seek to assist in the development of adequate funding sources to develop, construct,…
- § 66531 (a) Each county within the jurisdiction of the commission, together with the cities and transit operators within the county, may, every two years, develop and…
- § 66532 The commission shall develop an emergency transportation system management plan which defines the continuing emergency services required during reconstruction…
- § 66535 (a) Not later than July 1, 2003, the commission shall establish performance measurement criteria on both a project and corridor level to evaluate all new…
- § 66536 The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Association of Bay Area Governments, known as ABAG for the purposes of this section and Section…
- § 66536.1 (a) The joint policy committee shall prepare a report analyzing the feasibility of consolidating functions separately performed by ABAG and MTC. The report…
- § 66536.2 (a) The Legislature finds and declares: (1) The Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Metropolitan…