ARTICLE 2.5. Special Provisions re Utilities in Freeways [700. - 711.]
Article 2.5 added by Stats. 1947, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 11.
§§ 700–711 · 14 sections
- § 700 (a) “Person,” in addition to the definition in Section 19, includes any city, county, public corporation, or public district. (b) “Utility facility” means any…
- § 701 This article is limited to state highways which are or shall become freeways. Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), except as inconsistent with this…
- § 702 Whenever the department requires any utility to remove any utility facility lawfully maintained in the right of way of any freeway to a location entirely…
- § 703 Whenever the department requires a publicly owned utility to relocate within a freeway any utility facility lawfully maintained in any freeway which was not a…
- § 704 If the department requires the relocation within the right of way of any utility facility more than once within a period of 10 years, the department shall pay…
- § 705 In any case in which the department is required under the provisions of this article to pay the cost of removal or relocation of any utility facility, it shall…
- § 706 The department and any utility required to remove a utility facility or to relocate any utility facility may, by agreement, provide for the respective amounts…
- § 706.5 In connection with the construction of State Highway Route 86 in Imperial County from Post Miles 58.4 to Post Miles 65.1 and the relocation of facilities of…
- § 707 In the event of failure to reach an agreement as provided in Section 706, the utility or the department may bring an action in a court of competent…
- § 707.5 (A) The department and any utility as defined in Section 700 of this code may enter into a contract providing for or apportioning the obligations and costs to…
- § 708 Every utility is entitled to a permit for such reasonable crossings of any freeway, as may be required for the proper discharge of the utility’s service to the…
- § 709 The department shall exercise a reasonable discretion in acting on applications of utilities for permits to occupy freeways for longitudinal locations of…
- § 710 The department, in acting upon applications for utility permits, shall consider both the interests of the traveling public upon the freeway and the needs of…
- § 711 Nothing in this article is intended to prevent the department from making reasonable rules and regulations and requiring reasonable conditions in permits…