CHAPTER 3. Toll Bridges, Toll Roads, and Toll Ferries Generally [30800. - 30902.]

Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.

§§ 30800–30902 · 53 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Franchises §§ 30800–30814 · 16 sections

   • § 30800 The department has exclusive jurisdiction and, except as provided in this article, may grant upon the terms, limitations, conditions, and restrictions and…
   • § 30801 The department shall require the grantee of any such franchise, privilege, or license to pay a license tax or fee of not less than ten dollars ($10) or more…
   • § 30802 The department may fix the rate of tolls, and from time to time regulate, modify, and change any such tolls which may be collected on any toll bridge, toll…
   • § 30803 The rate of toll fixed, regulated, modified, or changed shall be determined by the department after hearing has been had thereon and a written finding…
   • § 30804 The department may provide as a condition or limitation in any franchise granted pursuant to this article for the purchase or retaking of any toll bridge, toll…
   • § 30805 Every person operating any toll road, toll bridge, or toll ferry within the State under any franchise granted pursuant to this article shall keep an accurate…
   • § 30806 The department shall prescribe: (a) A uniform system of accounts for all such toll roads, toll bridges, and toll ferries: (b) The manner in which the account…
   • § 30807 The department may make orders and prescribe rules and regulations with respect to toll roads, and toll bridges, or toll ferries in conformity with this…
   • § 30808 All money received from any franchise granted by the department pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the State Highway Account.
   • § 30809 The enforcement and administration of this article is declared to be a part of the highway program of the state, and all necessary expenditures of the…
   • § 30809.1 Private entities shall reimburse the Department of the California Highway Patrol for the actual costs incurred by that department for traffic enforcement…
   • § 30810 The board of supervisors shall not grant franchises and licenses for the construction, taking, and keeping of tolls on roads, bridges, and ferries in its…
   • § 30811 This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) Any person who on August 14, 1929, held a franchise for a toll bridge or toll road or operated a toll…
   • § 30812 This article does not prevent the State, or any city, county, incorporated bridge and highway district, or joint highway district from acquiring or…
   • § 30813 This article does not conflict in any manner with any law authorizing the construction, acquisition, or condemnation of toll roads or toll bridges through the…
   • § 30814 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no toll shall be imposed on the passage of a pedestrian, a bicycle, or a personal micromobility device, as defined…
2. ARTICLE 2. Regulations §§ 30840–30847 · 6 sections

   • § 30840 No person shall construct or take tolls on a bridge or ferry unless authorized by the governmental agency which has or had power to issue a franchise therefor.
   • § 30841 Any person who without authority of law demands or receives compensation for the use of any bridge or ferry or sets up or keeps any road, bridge, ferry, or…
   • § 30843 Any person who operates a motor vehicle over a toll bridge or toll highway crossing and the approaches thereto constructed or acquired by any bridge and…
   • § 30844 Any person who maliciously injures or destroys any toll house or gate is guilty of a misdemeanor.
   • § 30845 Any person who enters into an undertaking to keep and attend a ferry and violates the conditions of such undertaking is guilty of a misdemeanor.
   • § 30847 Every corporation incorporated for the purpose of operating a toll bridge or toll ferry may be dissolved in any of the following cases: (a) If within one year…
3. ARTICLE 3. Toll Bridges Under Franchises Granted Prior to 1929 and Toll Ferries Under Franchises Granted Prior to 1933 §§ 30860–30873 · 14 sections

   • § 30860 This article applies only to the following: (a) Any person who on August 14, 1929, held a franchise for a toll bridge or operated a toll bridge under such a…
   • § 30861 The license tax and rate of toll as originally fixed by the board of supervisors shall not be increased or diminished at any time during the term of 20 years,…
   • § 30862 Every owner or keeper of a toll bridge or ferry shall report annually to the board of supervisors from which his license is obtained, under oath, the following…
   • § 30863 The president and secretary of every toll bridge and toll ferry corporation shall annually, under oath, report to the board of supervisors of the county in…
   • § 30864 Whenever the board of supervisors is about to fix the license tax and rate of tolls on a bridge or ferry it shall make inquiry into the present actual cash…
   • § 30865 If the estimate of the board is not agreed to by the owner or keeper of the bridge or ferry, it shall be fixed by three commissioners, one to be appointed by…
   • § 30866 When the cost of construction or erection and equipment of the bridge or ferry, or the fair cash value thereof, together with the cost of needed repairs and…
   • § 30867 The owner or keeper of the toll bridge or ferry shall furnish a bond in the sum fixed by the board of supervisors and conditioned that the toll bridge or toll…
   • § 30868 The license tax for a toll ferry or toll bridge connecting two counties shall be paid to the treasurer of the county granting it, and the license issued by the…
   • § 30869 A supervisor who is interested in an application to erect, construct, or take tolls, or alter tolls on a bridge or ferry shall not act in any such matter.
   • § 30870 Every licensed toll bridge or toll ferry shall have the rates of toll as fixed by the board of supervisors, printed or written, posted up in some conspicuous…
   • § 30871 The proceeds of the license tax on ferries and toll-bridges shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of roads and highways, or may be used by the…
   • § 30872 All ferry and toll bridge keepers shall keep the banks of the streams or waters at the landings of their ferries or ridges graded and in good order for the…
   • § 30873 Any penalty recovered for any violation of the rights or obligations of the toll bridges or toll ferries described in this article shall be paid to the county…
4. ARTICLE 3.5. Toll Bridge Revenues §§ 30880–30894 · 14 sections

   • § 30880 It is the intent of the Legislature that toll bridge revenues be used to further the development of public transportation systems in the vicinity of toll…
   • § 30881 “Authority” means the Bay Area Toll Authority.
   • § 30882 “Commission” means the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
   • § 30883 “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
   • § 30884 (a) “Net transit revenues” means those revenues of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, and the Dumbarton Bridge determined by…
   • § 30885 “Toll bridge” means any state-owned bridge, including the approaches to the toll bridge from the nearest highway that is not for the exclusive use of toll…
   • § 30886 To maximize the availability of funding necessary to complete the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program, to more efficiently manage the toll revenues from…
   • § 30887 The authority may increase the toll rates specified in the adopted toll schedule only if this is necessary in order to enable the authority to meet its…
   • § 30889.3 (a) The authority may grant toll-free passage or may adopt a reduced-rate schedule of tolls for vehicles occupied by three or more persons, including the…
   • § 30890 The authority shall transfer the net transit revenues, as defined in Section 30884, to the commission on a regularly scheduled basis as set forth in the…
   • § 30891 The commission may retain, for its cost in administering this article, an amount not to exceed one-quarter of 1 percent of the revenues allocated by it…
   • § 30892 After deduction for its administrative cost, the commission shall allocate the remaining funds to public entities operating public transportation systems and…
   • § 30893 The commission may also allocate the funds to public entities and the department for the establishment and operation of ferry systems within the region under…
   • § 30894 The commission shall adopt and distribute procedures for the submission of applications for funding and allocation of funds. Only those applications for…
5. ARTICLE 4. Toll Ferries in Cities §§ 30900–30902 · 3 sections

   • § 30900 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the legislative body of a city may grant upon such terms, limitations, conditions, and restrictions and under…
   • § 30901 In granting any such franchise, privilege, or license, the legislative body may require the grantee thereof to pay an annual fee either in a flat amount or a…
   • § 30902 The provisions of this article do not relieve the operator of a toll ferry from obtaining and maintaining a current and valid certificate of public convenience…