The boards of supervisors may divide their respective counties into suitable road districts, may change the boundaries thereof, and may create new districts. The board shall not include in such road district any city wherein street work and improvements are done by virtue of any law relating to street work and improvements within such city.
Chapter 3Road Districts
Section § 1020
This law allows county boards of supervisors to organize their counties into different road districts. They can change the boundaries of these districts or create new ones. However, they cannot include any city in a road district if the city itself handles street work and improvements under its own laws.
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Section § 1026
This section allows the county's board of supervisors to help financially with road maintenance and construction costs when a road district faces undue burden. They have options to allocate expenses differently depending on the situation: from the county road fund or the general fund.
If the expense pertains to bridges, tunnels, or toll roads, they can decide by a majority vote to use the county general fund. If it's for highway construction materials, a unanimous vote is needed. In the case of damages due to storms or other disasters, a four-fifths vote allows the use of county funds to cover repair costs.
Whenever the board of supervisors finds that any road district in such county is or will be unreasonably burdened by the expense of constructing or maintaining any county highway, or any bridge or tunnel connecting or forming a part of such highway, or by the expense of the purchase of any toll roads the board may:
(a)CA Streets and Highways Code § 1026(a) Order the whole or any portion of the aggregate expense to be paid out of the road fund of the county.
(b)CA Streets and Highways Code § 1026(b) By a majority vote of the board’s membership, order the whole or any portion of the expense of construction or repair of such bridges or tunnels, or a portion of the expense of the purchase of such toll roads, to be paid out of the county general fund.
(c)CA Streets and Highways Code § 1026(c) By unanimous vote of the board’s membership, order the whole or any portion of the expense of material for highway construction to be paid out of the county general fund.
(d)CA Streets and Highways Code § 1026(d) By a four-fifths vote of the board’s membership, order to be paid out of the county general fund or the road fund, or both, the whole or any portion of the expense of constructing, reconstructing or repairing any bridges or highways destroyed or damaged by storms, floods or calamities.
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Section § 1027
When an old county highway is changed or a new one is opened, fences on the land used for the highway might need to be removed. The road commissioner will notify the property owner or their agent to remove these fences. They might also post the notice directly on the fence.
If the fences are not removed within ten days, or if the removal hasn't started or isn't being done quickly enough, the commissioner can remove the fences at the owner's cost. The commissioner can then take legal action to get back the money spent on removal. They might also sell the fence materials and use the money to cover these costs.
When the alteration of an old or the opening of a new county highway necessitates the removal of fences on real property acquired for highway purposes, the road commissioner shall serve upon the owner, his occupant or his agent, a notice to remove the fences, or in lieu of such service may post such notice on the fences which are to be removed.
If, within ten days after such service or posting, the removal is not completed, or is not commenced and then being prosecuted with due diligence, the road commissioner may cause the fence to be carefully removed at the expense of the owner, and may recover judgment of him for the cost of such removal. The road commissioner may sell the fence material and apply the proceeds toward the satisfaction of the judgment.
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Section § 1028
This law allows the board of supervisors to organize special meetings whenever they think it's necessary to discuss and address issues about highways and roads. During these meetings, they will listen to reports and complaints from both officials and the public about highways and bridges, and then decide on actions to improve public welfare based on these discussions.
The board of supervisors may call, at such times as in the judgment of the board may be required, a special meeting of the board for hearing highway and road matters. At such special meetings the board shall hear highway and bridge reports and complaints from officers and citizens, and shall take such action regarding the reports and complaints as the public welfare demands.
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Section § 1029
This law section states that when road districts are merged together, each district still needs to spend its collected road taxes within its own boundaries. The consolidation does not change this requirement.
The consolidation of road districts as provided in Section 2006 shall be without prejudice to the legal requirement that all road district taxes collected in any one such district shall be expended in that district.
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