ARTICLE 2. Permit Provisions [670. - 695.]
Article 2 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.
§§ 670–695 · 33 sections
- § 670 (a) The department may issue written permits, as provided in this chapter, authorizing the permittee to do any of the following acts: (1) Make an opening or…
- § 670.1 (a) The department may issue a permit to the owner or developer of property adjacent to or near a state highway to construct, alter, repair, or improve any…
- § 670.5 (a) The Flag of the United States of America and the Flag of the State of California may be displayed on a sidewalk located in or abutting on a state highway…
- § 671 Any act done under the authority of a written permit, issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be done in accordance with the applicable…
- § 671.1 The department may establish a fee schedule and charge a fee for the issuance of permits pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, except that no such fee…
- § 671.5 (a) The department shall either approve or deny an application from an applicant for an encroachment permit within 60 days of receiving a completed…
- § 672 Any permit issued under the provisions of this chapter may provide that the permittee will pay the entire expense of replacing the highway in as good condition…
- § 673 (a) Any permit issued to a permittee of the class specified in Section 678 shall contain a provision that in the event the future improvement of the highway…
- § 674 The department may, but is not required to, supervise any work done under any permit, issued under the provisions of this chapter in which event the permittee…
- § 675 (a) Permittees may excavate openings in state highways to make repairs in cases of emergency requiring immediate action. In such cases, the appropriate…
- § 676 The department may delegate to any city any of the department’s powers, duties, and authority, other than those of approval, under this chapter as to any State…
- § 677 Before granting a permit under any provision of this chapter, the department may require the applicant to file with the department a satisfactory bond payable…
- § 678 Except as otherwise provided in this section, such a bond shall not be required of any county, city, public corporation or political subdivision which is…
- § 679 Any city, municipal utility district, municipal water district or metropolitan water district is entitled to a blanket permit, renewable annually, for the…
- § 680 Whenever a franchise is granted by any county or city in any public highway which has been or is subsequently constituted a state highway, the department may…
- § 680.5 The department and any utility as defined in Section 700 may enter into a contract for or apportioning the obligations and costs to be borne by each party for…
- § 681 Whenever a franchise shall have been granted by any county or city in any public highway heretofore or hereafter constituted a State highway, all of the rights…
- § 682 Every city and county shall have power to grant franchises authorizing the exercise of any privilege in, along, across, under, through, over, and upon any…
- § 682.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 731, the department may issue permits to counties and cities for the use of highways within their boundaries and to community-based…
- § 682.7 (a) As used in this section: (1) “Event” means a competition event that encroaches a state highway. (2) “Prize compensation” includes prize or purse money,…
- § 683 No franchise of any kind shall be granted in respect to any State highway or portion thereof which has been established as a freeway pursuant to the provisions…
- § 684 No franchise shall be granted for the installation of street or other railroad tracks or the operation of street railroads or other railroads on any State…
- § 685 In case a franchise is granted for the exercise of a privilege in a city street or county highway, approval of the department shall not be required in respect…
- § 686 The department shall approve any franchise submitted for approval pursuant to Section 683 or 684 unless the department finds on the facts of the particular…
- § 687 Franchises may be granted under this article separately as to any state highway, or portion thereof, or in respect to both state highways, or portions thereof,…
- § 688 In cases in which the approval of the department is not required, the city or county shall give notice to the department of any application for a franchise…
- § 689 No privilege shall be exercised in any state highway pursuant to any franchise granted under this article until a copy of such franchise, certified by the…
- § 690 The department shall have the power to prescribe the location, within the limits of the State highway, of any physical property to be constructed or installed…
- § 691 In the exercise within the limits of any State highway of any privilege granted by franchise, the holder thereof shall at all times be subject to all…
- § 692 Independently of or jointly with the grantor city or county, the department may enforce any obligation imposed by any franchise granted pursuant to Section 682…
- § 693 All sums payable by the grantee under any such franchise shall be paid to the grantor city or county.
- § 694 All franchises heretofore granted by any city for the exercise of any privilege in any State highway, are hereby fully validated, legalized and made effective,…
- § 695 Failure of the department to act upon any application for approval under Sections 683 or 684 within 90 days after the filing of such application with the…