Bill Text: CA SB1368 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State highways: relinquishment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 315, Statutes of 2014. [SB1368 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1368-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1368	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 73.01 of the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1368, as introduced, Wolk. State highways: relinquishment.
   Existing law gives the Department of Transportation full
possession and control of all state highways. Existing law provides
for the relinquishment of state highways or portions of state
highways to any county or city by the California Transportation
Commission in accordance with specified criteria and procedures.
Existing law, in addition, authorizes the commission to relinquish to
a county transportation commission or regional transportation
planning agency a park-and-ride lot within their respective
jurisdictions, if the department enters into an agreement with the
county transportation commission or regional transportation planning
agency providing for that relinquishment and other conditions are
satisfied.
   This bill would also authorize the commission to relinquish a
park-and-ride lot to a joint powers authority formed for purposes of
providing transportation services in the manner described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 73.01 of the Streets and Highways Code is
amended to read:
   73.01.  The commission may relinquish to a county transportation
commission created pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section
130000) of Division 12 of the Public Utilities Code,  a joint
powers authority formed for purposes of providing transportation
services,  or  a  regional transportation planning
agency, a park-and-ride lot within their respective jurisdictions, on
terms and conditions that the commission finds to be within the best
interests of the state, if the department enters into an agreement
with the county transportation  commission  
commission, joint powers authority,  or regional transportation
planning agency providing for that relinquishment. The county
transportation  commission   commission, joint
powers authority,  or regional transportation planning agency
requesting the relinquishment shall agree to maintain, at a minimum,
the number of parking spaces provided by the department in the lot at
the time of relinquishment. Any such relinquishment shall become
effective on the date following the county recorder's recordation of
the relinquishment resolution containing the commission's approval of
the terms and conditions of the relinquishment.