CHAPTER 2. Powers and Duties of Boards of Supervisors

Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29.

§§ 940–991 · 50 sections

§ 940 Boards of supervisors shall have general supervision, management, and control of the county highways.
§ 941 (a) Boards of supervisors shall, by proper order, cause those highways which are necessary to public convenience to be established, recorded, constructed, and…
§ 941.1 The board of supervisors may lay out, acquire, construct, and maintain any section or portion of any street or highway within the county as a freeway or…
§ 941.2 Boards of supervisors may close any street or highway within their jurisdiction at or near the point of its intersection with any freeway, or may make…
§ 941.3 Before taking any action authorized by Section 941.2 affecting any state highway, such action must be approved by the Department of Public Works.
§ 941.4 (a) The board of supervisors, with the consent of any city in which the proposed system is located, in whole or in part, may designate a system of expressways…
§ 941.6 If the boundary line between two adjacent counties lies within a county highway, the boards of supervisors of the affected counties may, by agreement, provide…
§ 942 Such boards may enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for the construction, improvement or maintenance of county highways, and for the protection,…
§ 942.5 The board of supervisors may restrict the use of, or close, any county highway whenever the board considers such closing or restriction of use necessary: (a)…
§ 942.6 The board of supervisors may delegate the powers contained in Section 942.5 to the county road commissioner.
§ 943 Such board may: (a) Acquire any property necessary for the uses and purposes of county highways. When eminent domain proceedings are necessary, the board shall…
§ 944 No bonded indebtedness shall be incurred for any purpose specified in section 943 until after the question of the issue of bonds therefor has been submitted to…
§ 945 Such boards may expend from the county general fund the moneys necessary to pay the whole or any part of the cost of the improvement of any highway lying…
§ 946 No liability shall be created against the county in connection with any such improvement conducted by a city unless the board, by resolution, determines and…
§ 947 Every instrument or judgment which constitutes evidence of title to a right of way, or incident thereto, in relation to county highways shall particularly…
§ 948 The board of supervisors of each county shall cause to be recorded with the county recorder, in relation to every county highway within the county, proper…
§ 949 The board of supervisors may plant shade and ornamental trees on the county highways, and provide for their care. The cost of planting and caring for such…
§ 950 For the purpose of sprinkling county highways with oil or water, the board of supervisors may erect or maintain waterworks, tanks or reservoirs, and may…
§ 951 (a) Such board may set apart on any county highway a strip of land for a side path, and make an order designating the width of such path, and cause the lines…
§ 952 Such board shall cause properly inscribed guideposts to be erected and maintained at all county highway crossings and forks lying outside of any city.
§ 953 A board of supervisors may, acting separately or in conjunction with State or Federal agencies, or with another county, burn or remove debris, rubbish, brush,…
§ 954 All county highways which for a period of five consecutive years are impassable for vehicular travel, and on which during such period of time no public money…
§ 954.5 (a) The board of supervisors may, by resolution, terminate the maintenance of any county highway if it finds that the highway is unnecessary for the public…
§ 954.6 (a) A board of supervisors, by resolution, may terminate the maintenance of all or a portion of a county highway if it finds that another public agency will…
§ 960 Whenever the board of supervisors determines that any real property, or interest therein, acquired by the county for highway purposes is no longer necessary…
§ 960.5 The term “county highway” as used in Sections 954 and 954.5 shall be deemed to include, but not be limited to, any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley,…
§ 960.6 The board of supervisors may, by ordinance or resolution, delegate to a county official, subject to rules or regulations as the board may impose, the authority…
§ 964 Whenever the board finds that any county highway has been damaged or is in danger of being damaged by storm waters or floods, the board shall adopt all…
§ 965 The board of supervisors shall, by order, direct the district attorney of the county to institute eminent domain proceedings, in the name of the county,…
§ 966 (a) The board of supervisors may provide for the erection and maintenance of gates on the county highways to avoid the necessity of building highway fences.…
§ 967 Whenever a right of way for a highway is conveyed to a county and the sole consideration for the conveyance is an agreement by the county to construct and…
§ 968 The board may cause the expense of constructing such fences to be charged to and paid from the county general fund, the road fund of the county or the district…
§ 969 Whenever a road is of general utility and of public convenience and constitutes the only or principal means of communication between one town or village and…
§ 969.5 Such boards may, after they have determined by a resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of their membership that general county interest demands the…
§ 969.6 Notwithstanding Section 969.5 or any other provision of this code, if a state of local emergency is declared by the board of supervisors as a result of locally…
§ 970.5 Whenever the board of supervisors or a county officer designated by the board to be in charge of naming county highways finds that a name should be adopted and…
§ 971 Any county highway which has not been officially named may be officially named by the board of supervisors or a county officer designated by the board without…
§ 972 A board of supervisors may, by ordinance, permit the use of any county highway which connects with a main county highway of an adjoining county, by the board…
§ 973 The board of the county seeking the use, if it accepts the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the board of the county granting the use, may: (a) Construct…
§ 974 The expense of any work done or acquisition made pursuant to section 973 shall be paid by the county to which the use is granted out of the county general…
§ 975 The board of any county to which the use is granted, pursuant to the provisions of section 972, may, by mutual consent expressed through ordinances of the…
§ 976 The board of supervisors of any county may purchase or lease with the consent of the owner, or may obtain by gift, and may hold, improve or maintain any real…
§ 977 The board of supervisors of any county desiring to act under section 976 may, by unanimous vote of its membership, determine what real property is necessary…
§ 978 Whenever the United States government grants real property to a county for highway uses and purposes, the county may take and dispose of such real property and…
§ 979 The board of supervisors shall keep in repair all objects or markers adjacent to a county highway which have been erected to mark registered historical places…
§ 982 Except as provided in this section, the board of supervisors shall have power to temporarily close all or any part of any public highway, road, street, avenue,…
§ 985 The board of supervisors may construct, install and maintain cattle guards on or adjacent to the county highways. The cost of constructing, installing, and…
§ 989 (a) (1) Upon the incorporation of a city or upon the annexation of territory to a city, all right, title, and interest of the county, including the underlying…
§ 990 Where practical or desirable, the board of supervisors shall, along any highway under its jurisdiction, possession, or control, replace trees that have been…
§ 991 Before any bridge on a county highway is constructed over any navigable river, the board of supervisors, after a study and public hearing on the question,…