text: If the district has not incurred a bonded indebtedness at the time of the application by the board of supervisors to join the district, the county or part thereof may be annexed if the board of supervisors passes an ordinance declaring its intention to join the district and upon petition presented in the manner provided in this part for the organization of the district. The petition shall be presented to the Secretary of State, who shall give notice of the presentation thereof, and of the date set for receiving protests against the annexation in the same manner as for original petitions, and all of the provisions of this part which are applicable to original petitions shall be applicable to petitions for annexations.


kind: section

code: SHC

text: After all protests have been disposed of in the same manner as protests upon the incorporation of the district, the Secretary of State shall issue his certificate certifying to the annexation and describing the boundaries of the district as finally determined, which certificate shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county wherein any portion of the annexed territory is located, and thereupon the boards of supervisors of the county shall appoint a member or members of the board to serve until the expiration of the term of the directors then holding for the term of office that will soonest expire.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 286.)

division: 16. HIGHWAY DISTRICTS

chapter: 17. Annexation of Territory

path: 16. HIGHWAY DISTRICTS > 17. Annexation of Territory


text: Upon the issuance of the certificate of annexation by the Secretary of State the territory named therein shall become a part of the district.


text: Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 678.)

article: 1. General Provisions

path: 16. HIGHWAY DISTRICTS > 18. Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District > 1. General Provisions


text: “District” means the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.

chapter: 18. Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Golden Gate Bridge” means the bridge spanning the Golden Gate between the City and County of San Francisco and the County of Marin.

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Transit services” means the transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by the district by means other than sightseeing ferryboats.

article: 1. General Provisions


text:
The composition of the board of directors of the district shall be as follows:

(a) One director, representing Del Norte County, one director, representing Mendocino County, and one director, representing Napa County, appointed by the board of supervisors of the respective represented county.

(b) Four directors, representing Marin County, appointed by the board of supervisors thereof. One of the directors shall be an elected member of the board of supervisors, another of the directors shall be an elected member of a city council of a city within Marin County, and shall be designated by the Marin Council of Mayors and Councilmen and another of the directors shall be a member of the general public.

(c) Three directors, representing Sonoma County, appointed by the board of supervisors thereof. One of the directors may be an elected member of the board of supervisors, and another of the directors shall be an elected member of a city council of a city within Sonoma County, and shall be designated by the Mayors’ and Councilmen’s Association of Sonoma County.

(d) Nine directors, representing the City and County of San Francisco, eight of whom shall be appointed by the board of supervisors thereof, and one of whom shall be appointed by the mayor thereof by an order of appointment, a certified copy of which shall be immediately forwarded to the Secretary of State. Four of the directors shall be elected members of the board of supervisors.

history: (History: Added by renumbering Section 27122 by Stats. 1984, Ch. 193, Sec. 139.)

article: 1. General Provisions


text:
(a) The adoption, terms, and conditions of a pension plan covering employees of the district in a bargaining unit represented by a labor organization shall be pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement between that organization and the board and shall be subject to this section.

(b) The pension plan and the funds of the plan shall be managed and administered by a retirement board composed of equal representation of labor and management. Any deadlock among the members of the board with respect to that management and administration shall be resolved in the manner specified in Section 302 of the federal Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 186(c)(5)).

(c) The duties and responsibilities of the retirement board shall be executed in accordance with Section 17 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

(d) This section does not apply if the district has, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, provided membership for the district’s represented employees in the Public Employees’ Retirement System, a retirement system established pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, or a pension trust subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 et seq.)

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 845, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. General Provisions


text:
The Legislature finds and declares that since July 1, 1971, the district has been freed of bonded indebtedness. The prospective continuing role of the district and its responsibilities in the field of transportation are policy questions of major importance to the citizens of California, the people and communities regularly served by the Golden Gate Bridge, the district, and the Legislature.

It is desirable, therefore, that all concerned have a common basis for considering the issues and exercising judgment. To this end, the district is directed to develop a transportation facilities plan.

article: 2. Planning

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text:
The transportation facilities plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(a) A definition of the district’s future responsibilities for providing transportation services. Alternative proposals are encouraged. Abolishment of the district should be one alternative, in which case recommendations should be made for necessary transfer of powers and duties.

(b) A priority schedule for assuming each of any proposed added responsibilities.

(c) Necessary changes in the district’s organizational structure in order to be responsive to any changed responsibilities.

(d) An estimate of the expenditures that may be necessary to support any added responsibilities.

(e) A definition of any capital improvements that may be required.

(f) A long-range estimate of bridge revenues, operating costs, and net revenues that may be available as required to provide proposed transportation services.

(g) A special element addressed to the interfacing of transportation modes.

(h) Explicit consideration must be given to the environmental and social values of the communities affected.

article: 2. Planning


text: In developing the transportation facilities plan, the district shall hold public hearings so that interested persons and organizations are provided an opportunity to express their viewpoints.

article: 2. Planning


text: No long-range transportation plan of the district shall be adopted unless such plan is consistent with the regional transportation plan of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and approved by the commission.

article: 2. Planning


text: The district may study, construct, acquire, improve, maintain, and operate any and all modes of transportation within or partly outside the district, including, but not limited to, water transportation; may join with any cities, counties, districts, or state agencies, or any combinations thereof, to study and to provide any such mode of transportation as may be deemed by the board to be reasonable and appropriate to provide or to assist in providing transportation within or partly outside the district; and may pay for or finance, in whole or in part, any such study and any such mode of transportation.

article: 3. Powers and Functions

path: 16. HIGHWAY DISTRICTS > 18. Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District > 3. Powers and Functions


text:
The district may not, prior to December 30, 1975, expend any of its funds to implement the addition of a second deck to the Golden Gate Bridge or any other proposed plan for transit services, other than for its interim system of buses and ferries.

It is the intention of the Legislature that the district’s interim system of buses and ferries shall be the system outlined in the district’s grant application to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, dated May 21, 1971, entitled, “Application of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transporation District for a Mass Transportation Capital Grant under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended.”

The district, however, may expend the necessary funds for planning purposes, and for the acquisition of rights-of-way necessary, regardless of what type of transit system is proposed in the Golden Gate Corridor Transportation Facilities Plan submitted to the Legislature in April, 1971, and in the Golden Gate Corridor Transportation Facilities Plan—Phase II submitted to the Legislature in September, 1975.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1079.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text:
If the district constructs any rail transit lines, such lines, and the rolling stock and other facilities therefor, shall be coordinated with the system of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.

If the district constructs any tunnel within the Geary Corridor in the City and County of San Francisco, such tunnel and its underground stations shall be constructed so that the conversion of such facilities to physically accommodate the equipment used by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District can be accomplished at a minimum cost.

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: With respect to its ferryboat operations, the district shall not operate any charter or sightseeing services. However, the district may contract with any common carrier to provide such services and to employ the district’s boats, employees, facilities, or equipment for such purposes.

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text:
Prior to the expenditure of any funds for the bus transit and water transportation system of the district, the board shall determine:

(a) The amount which the counties, and the transit districts therein, served by the system shall contribute to the operation of the system for benefits derived from intracounty operation connected with, or related to, the system. The method of computing and receiving such amount shall be the method provided for in the district’s Resolution No. 7030, adopted May 8, 1970.

(b) That the board of supervisors of these counties, and the transit districts therein, have made a commitment to contribute the amount specified in subdivision (a).

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: It is the intention of the Legislature that the district pursue all avenues to obtain federal financing for both its interim transit system and any long-range transportation facilities approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Furthermore, the district shall take no action which may preclude it from obtaining federal grants-in-aid if such grants are reasonably anticipated. Furthermore, the district shall encourage minority enterprise to the maximum extent practicable.

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: Except for the necessity to finance its interim system of buses and ferries, as described in Section 27551, or the necessity to finance capital improvements or modifications relating to seismic safety of the bridge, the district shall not issue general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, or any other form of long-term indebtedness.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 166, Sec. 1. Effective July 13, 1992.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: The district may purchase transit equipment, such as cars, trolley buses and motorbuses, or rolling equipment, and may execute agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates in the forms customarily used by private corporations engaged in the transit business appropriate to effect the purchase and leasing of transit equipment, and may dispose of the equipment trust certificates on terms and conditions that the board may deem appropriate. Payment for the equipment, or rentals therefor, may be made in installments. The deferred installments may be evidenced by equipment trust certificates payable from any source of funds specified in the certificates that are or will be legally available to the district. Title to the equipment shall not vest in the district until the equipment trust certificates are paid.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 50, Sec. 5. Effective March 22, 1984.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: The agreement to purchase or lease may direct the vendor or lessor to sell and assign or lease the rolling equipment to a bank or trust company duly authorized to transact business in the state as trustee for the benefit and security of the equipment trust certificates, may direct the trustee to deliver the rolling equipment to one or more designated officers of the district, and may authorize the district to simultaneously therewith execute and deliver an installment purchase agreement or a lease of the equipment to the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 50, Sec. 6. Effective March 22, 1984.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for acknowledgment of deeds. The agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall be authorized by resolution of the district and shall contain the covenants, conditions, restrictions, and provisions which may be deemed necessary or appropriate to insure the payment of the equipment trust certificates from legally available source of funds specified in the certificates.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 50, Sec. 7. Effective March 22, 1984.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: The covenants, conditions, restrictions, and provisions of the agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust agreement securing the payment of bonds, notes, or certificates of the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 50, Sec. 8. Effective March 22, 1984.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who may receive one dollar ($1) for each copy filed with the Secretary of State. The filing constitutes notice to any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent purchaser. Each vehicle so purchased or leased shall have the name of the owner or lessor plainly marked on both sides of the vehicle followed by the appropriate words “Owner and Lessor” or “Owner and Vendor,” as the case may be.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 50, Sec. 9. Effective March 22, 1984.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: Whenever the district offers for sale to the public coupons or commuter ticket books redeemable for the toll on the Golden Gate Bridge, the district shall make the coupons or commuter ticket books available at locations convenient to the public, which shall not be limited to toll bridge facilities, and by mail.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 932, Sec. 1.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: Any person who, without the consent of the board of directors of the district, uses any district mark, name, word, or phrase, or combination, simulation, or colorable imitation thereof, which has or which may in the future be adopted by the district, including, but not limited to, the name “Golden Gate Bridge,” for the purpose of manufacturing, advertising, or selling equipment or merchandise, or for the purpose of advertising and selling services, or to promote any activity in which the district may engage, which use has a tendency to cause confusion, mistake, or deception with the district as to the origin of goods or services, or has a tendency to falsely represent or suggest an association or connection with the district or any district activity, shall be subject to a civil action by the district, for an injunction, and (1) defendant’s profits, (2) any damages sustained by the district, and (3) the costs of the action. In the court’s assessment of profits, the district shall be required to prove the defendant’s sales only, and the defendant shall prove all elements of costs or deduction claimed. In the court’s assessment of damages, the court may enter judgment according to the circumstances of the case, for any sum above the amount found as actual damages, not exceeding three times that amount. If the court shall find that the amount of the recovery based on profits is either inadequate or excessive, the court may, in its discretion, enter judgment for such sum as the court shall find to be just, according to the circumstances of the case, and may award reasonable attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party. Nothing in this section shall interfere with the vested rights of any person in any name, word, mark, symbol, or device.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 499, Sec. 1. Effective July 24, 1986.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text:
The Legislature finds and declares as follows:

(a) Automatic vehicle identification systems when used for toll collection can speed up the flow of traffic at toll facilities and reduce collection costs.

(b) More than one system and technology is available.

(c) Currently, the department and the district operate toll bridges and other entities may soon operate toll roads or bridges.

(d) There are no permanent automatic vehicle identification systems for toll collection in the state at this time and none of the facility operators have selected a system or technology for future implementation.

(e) It is in the best interest of vehicle owners and operators that the automatic vehicle identification systems and technology used by all toll facility operators are compatible with one another.

(f) Compatible automatic vehicle identification systems can be selected for statewide use without requiring the purchase and installation from a single vendor or producer.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1080, Sec. 1.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text:
(a) The department, in cooperation with the district and all known entities planning to implement a toll facility in this state, shall develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system, in compliance with all of the following objectives:

(1) In order to be detected, the driver shall not be required to reduce speed below the applicable speed for the type of facility being used.

(2) The vehicle owner shall not be required to purchase or install more than one device to use on all toll facilities, but may be required to have a separate account or financial arrangement for the use of these facilities.

(3) The facility operators shall have the ability to select from different manufacturers and vendors. The specifications and standards shall encourage multiple bidders, and shall not have the effect of limiting the facility operators to choosing a system that is able to be supplied by only one manufacturer or vendor.

(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any automatic vehicle identification system purchased or installed after January 1, 1991, shall comply with the specifications and standards adopted pursuant to subdivision (a).

(c) Subdivision (b) does not apply to an interim automatic vehicle identification system for which a contract is entered into between an entity planning to implement a toll facility and the supplier of the interim system prior to January 1, 1994, if both of the following requirements are met:

(1) The department has made a written determination that the installation and operation of the interim system will expedite the completion of the toll facility and its opening to public use.

(2) The entity planning to implement the toll facility has entered into an agreement with the department to install, within five years after any portion of the toll facility is opened for public use, an automatic vehicle identification system meeting the specifications and standards adopted pursuant to subdivision (a).

(d) The automated vehicle identification system developed by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be capable of identifying various types of vehicles, including, but not limited to, commercial vehicles.

(e) On and after the date specified in the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act for implementation of interoperability of electronic toll collection on federal-aid highways, operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways may fully implement technologies or business practices that provide for the interoperability of electronic toll collection programs consistent with federal law. Operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways engaged in an interoperability program may provide only the following information regarding a vehicle’s use of the toll facility, and shall otherwise comply with all federal and state privacy protection laws, including, but not limited to, Section 31490:

(1) License plate number.

(2) Transponder identification number.

(3) Date and time of transaction.

(4) Identity of the agency operating the toll facility.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 79, Sec. 2. (AB 493) Effective January 1, 2014.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text:
(a) In its role as administrator of the automatic vehicle identification system described in Section 27565, the Bay Area Toll Authority shall provide vehicle owners who seek to obtain an account the option of opening and maintaining an account with United States currency or check. That option shall also allow a customer to obtain an account without providing his or her name or address.

(b) The Bay Area Toll Authority shall inform the public about the option to obtain a cash-based account for the automatic vehicle identification system on its Internet Web site and in promotional materials.

(c) The Bay Area Toll Authority may provide a person with the option of making a payment with United States currency to replenish his or her vehicle identification system account at the toll plaza administration building associated with each of the state-owned toll bridges located within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

(d) The Bay Area Toll Authority shall make a good faith effort to encourage commercial retailers that sell transponders for the automatic vehicle identification system to enable a person to replenish his or her account at the retail location with a variety of payment methods, including, but not limited to, United States currency.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 515, Sec. 4. (AB 1175) Effective January 1, 2010.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text:
(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 in Section 1940.41 of the Civil Code, over any bridge that is under the jurisdiction of the district, on which the travel of pedestrians, bicycles, or personal micromobility devices is otherwise authorized.

(b) Subdivision (a) shall not apply if the bridge was under construction on or after January 1, 2025, and if the tolls are used to fund the cost of constructing the bridge.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 731, Sec. 1. (AB 2669) Effective January 1, 2025.)

article: 3. Powers and Functions


text: This chapter may be cited as the California Toll Bridge Authority Act.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

division: 17. TOLL FACILITIES AND RELATED MATTERS

article: 1. General Provisions

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text: Unless the particular provision or the context otherwise requires, the general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

chapter: 1. The California Toll Bridge Authority Act

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Commission” means the California Transportation Commission.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 126.)

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Toll bridge,” “bridge,” “subway,” “tunnel,” “tube,” and “highway crossing” include all appurtenances and additions, alterations or improvements thereto or replacements thereof, and the approaches to each end thereof, all lands and interest therein used therefor, and buildings and improvements thereon.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1346.)

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Transportation facilities” means all facilities for the transportation of passengers and property to and over any toll bridge, tube or other highway crossing and the approaches to each end thereof, acquired or constructed, to be acquired or constructed, or in course of construction pursuant to this chapter. “Transportation facilities” includes terminals, stations, viaducts, rails, tracks, power stations, substations and equipment and power supply lines, storage yards, and the real property, easements, and rights of way upon which any of them are located or situated or which are necessary therefor, and equipment, signals and interlockers, cars and rolling stock, and franchises, rights, and privileges appurtenant thereto.

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Additional transportation facilities” means all facilities for the transportation of passengers and property connected or coordinated with or to be connected or coordinated with the transportation facilities of any toll bridge, tube or other toll highway crossing constructed or acquired, or to be constructed or acquired, or in the course of construction or acquisition pursuant to this chapter so as to provide a system of transportation for persons or property to and from that toll bridge or other toll highway crossing and the area within 50 miles from either end of that toll bridge or other toll highway crossing. “Additional transportation facilities” includes all of the personal and real properties, easements, rights of way, franchises, rights, and privileges which are included in “transportation facilities,” without limitation to the use thereof for the transportation of passengers and property to and over any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, to the extent that the use thereof in connection or coordination with the transportation facilities of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing provides a system of transportation for persons or property to and from that toll bridge or other highway crossing and the area within 50 miles from either end of that toll bridge or other toll highway crossing.

article: 1. General Provisions


text: “Bond” means any written evidence of indebtedness which the authority may issue pursuant to this chapter in order to secure funds with which to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

article: 1. General Provisions


text: Nothing in this chapter prevents the State from making appropriations from time to time in aid of the acquisition or construction pursuant to this chapter of any toll bridge, tube or other toll highway crossing, or property, franchises, or rights appurtenant thereto, or the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, or for the purpose of making preliminary surveys, plans, and estimates of the cost thereof, and meeting other preliminary expenses as the Legislature deems proper.

article: 1. General Provisions


text:
(a) The California Toll Bridge Authority is hereby abolished, and the California Transportation Commission succeeds to, and is vested with, the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the California Toll Bridge Authority.

(b) Any reference in any law or regulation to the California Toll Bridge Authority shall be deemed to refer to the California Transportation Commission.

(c) The California Transportation Commission shall have the possession and control of all licenses, permits, leases, agreements, contracts, orders, claims, judgments, records, papers, equipment, supplies, bonds, moneys, funds, appropriations, buildings, land and other property, real or personal, held for the benefit, use, or obligation of the California Toll Bridge Authority.

history: (History: Repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1106.)

article: 2. California Transportation Commission

path: 17. TOLL FACILITIES AND RELATED MATTERS > 1. The California Toll Bridge Authority Act > 2. California Transportation Commission


text:
Whenever, in the opinion of the commission and of the department, it is necessary or desirable to do so, the commission shall authorize and direct the department to build or acquire for, and in the name of, the state any or all of the following:

(a) Toll bridges, tubes, or other toll highway crossings across water, bays, arms of bays, straits, rivers, and streams in California, both navigable and unnavigable, or across any stream that is a boundary line between California and any other state, or toll tunnels through mountains in California.

(b) Transportation facilities of any toll bridges or toll highway crossings constructed or acquired, or to be constructed or acquired, pursuant to this chapter.

(c) Additional transportation facilities connecting or coordinated with any such toll bridge or other highway crossing or the transportation facilities thereon.

The commission may authorize and direct the department to pay for any such construction or acquisition out of any funds provided or made available by this chapter. Whenever a project consists of a tube or tunnel which will accommodate traffic served by a privately owned ferry, the commission may acquire such ferry.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 128.)

path: 17. TOLL FACILITIES AND RELATED MATTERS > 1. The California Toll Bridge Authority Act > 3. General Powers and Duties of the Commission


text: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may include, in any issue of revenue bonds, funds sufficient to finance the establishment of a ferry system as authorized by Section 30356, including the purchase or construction of ferry boats, wharves, docks, ferry slips, and other facilities necessary to the operation and maintenance of a ferry system. Upon determining that it is feasible to do so, the commission shall take all steps necessary to finance the establishment of ferry systems. Revenues derived from the operation of any ferry system shall be pledged as security for the payment of the bonds issued to finance the establishment of the system.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 129.)

article: 3. General Powers and Duties of the Commission


text: Notwithstanding Section 30100 or any other provision of law, no bridge or other highway crossing shall be constructed across San Francisco Bay by the commission, the department, or the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, except to replace bridges or highway crossings on a one-for-one basis.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 681, Sec. 73.)


text: Except as otherwise provided by statute for the commission and the Bay Area Toll Authority, the commission shall fix the rates of toll and other charges for all toll bridges, tubes, or other toll highway crossings acquired or built pursuant to this chapter. Notwithstanding this section or any other provision of law, neither the commission nor the Bay Area Toll Authority may change the seismic retrofit surcharge described in Section 31010.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2004.)


text: The commission may permit authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165 of the Vehicle Code, responding to or returning from mutual aid calls or other emergencies, and other vehicles owned by any public agency when called upon to perform emergency work on the property of any toll bridge, tube, or other toll highway crossing, to cross toll bridges, tubes, or other toll highway crossings without paying a toll.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 132.)


text:
The commission shall grant toll-free passage on all toll bridges, tubes, and other toll highway crossings under its jurisdiction to members of the California Highway Patrol on duty.

Members of the California Highway Patrol, in all cases while on duty, are persons directly connected with the operation of toll bridges, tubes, and other toll highway crossings as such persons are designated in all of the bond resolutions adopted by the commission to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance the construction of toll structures.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 133.)


text:
(a) The commission shall grant toll free passage on all toll bridges, tubes, and other toll highway crossings under its jurisdiction to vehicles in a funeral procession of a person who died while on active duty with the armed services of the United States.

(b) The commission shall submit a claim for the loss in revenues resulting from subdivision (a) to the State Controller, who shall reimburse the commission in the amount submitted in the claim from funds appropriated by the Legislature to him for such purposes.

(c) The State Controller, in consultation with the commission, shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement this section.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 134.)


text:
(a) The commission may grant toll-free and reduced-rate passage on all toll bridges under its jurisdiction to class I vehicles occupied by three or more persons, including the driver, and to buses. For bridges within the area under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Toll Authority may grant toll-free and reduced-rate passage.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), tolls on the bridges shall be maintained at rates sufficient to meet any obligation to the holders of bonds secured by a pledge of bridge toll revenues, as set forth in any bond resolution, indenture, or covenants, and the commission shall revise or eliminate any toll-free or reduced-rate toll schedule adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) as necessary to ensure compliance with those obligations.

(c) If the commission grants toll-free and reduced-rate passage pursuant to subdivision (a), the commission shall also grant the same toll-free and reduced-rate passage to class I vehicles designed by the manufacturer to be occupied by no more than two persons, including the driver, if these vehicles are occupied by two persons, including the driver.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2004.)


text: Except as provided in Section 30102.5, the commission, in establishing toll charges, shall give consideration to the cost of operating and maintaining any particular toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, including the cost of insurance, the cost of operating and maintaining any ferry established and operated pursuant to Section 30356, and the amount required annually to meet the redemption of bonds and interest payments thereon. At all times, the tolls and charges shall be fixed at rates to yield annual revenue equal to the annual operating and maintenance expenses, including insurance costs, the cost of operating and maintaining any ferry established and operated pursuant to Section 30356, and all redemption payments and interest charges of the bonds issued for any particular toll bridge or other toll highway as they fall due.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1182, Sec. 3.)


text: Consistent with Section 30918, the Bay Area Toll Authority shall fix the rates of the toll charge, except as provided in Sections 30921 and 30923, and may grant reduced-rate and toll-free passage on the state-owned toll bridges within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 650, Sec. 4. (SB 595) Effective January 1, 2018.)


text: Toll charges so fixed may be changed from time to time as conditions warrant.


text:
The commission shall prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any person, or private, public, or municipal corporation, or any district or political subdivision may do any of the following:

(a) Transport any person or property over any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing acquired or constructed, or to be acquired or constructed, or in course of construction pursuant to this chapter.

(b) Operate any transportation facilities thereon.

(c) Transport any person or property over any additional transportation facilities, constructed or acquired pursuant to this chapter, or use or operate such additional transportation facilities.

No person, or private, public, or municipal corporation, or district or political subdivision shall do any of the acts specified in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of this section, except in accordance with authorization or permission to do so from the commission.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 136.)


text: The commission may also grant permits to and enter into contracts with steam, electric, bus, railroad, and other transportation companies, public or private, and with any municipal or public corporation, public utility district, or political subdivision for the use of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, and for the use of the transportation facilities and the additional transportation facilities thereof, upon such terms and conditions as are mutually agreed upon if, prior to the granting of the permit or the execution of the contract, the commission first determines that the permit or contract is advisable or necessary for the financing of the bridge or other toll highway crossing or for the proper, necessary, or safe use of the bridge and for the best interests of the state.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 137.)


text: The grant of any such permit or the execution of any such contract by the California Transportation Commission shall not relieve any transportation company or corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission from the duty of obtaining any certificate of public convenience and necessity for the conduct of a transportation service over any toll bridge or other highway crossing as required by law, or from the duty of complying with every lawful order, rule, or regulation of the Public Utilities Commission respecting such transportation service.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 138.)


text: In any such contract or permit, the commission may authorize the transportation company or corporation, district, or political subdivision providing transportation to use the transportation facilities and additional transportation facilities of the commission upon such terms and in such manner as the commission deems proper. Such use may be authorized without restriction to the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing to which the transportation facilities and additional transportation facilities relate, but the use authorized shall be for or in aid of the transportation of persons or property over that bridge or other highway crossing or the approaches thereto.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 139.)


text: Every contract which the commission enters into with, and every permit which it grants to, any person, or private, public, or municipal corporation, any district or political subdivision, for the transportation of persons or property by such person, or private, public, or municipal corporation, or district or political subdivision over any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, or over the additional transportation facilities of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, shall contain a provision that no privilege or contract rights acquired by such person, private, public, or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision, with regard to the transport of persons or property over any such toll bridge or with regard to additional transportation facilities, shall be an element of value in any subsequent condemnation proceeding against any such person, private, public, or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 140.)


text: No privilege, permit, or contract right acquired by any such person, private, public, or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision, with regard to the transport of persons or property over any such toll bridge or other toll highway crossing or with regard to use of or passage over any additional transportation facilities shall constitute an element of value in any condemnation proceeding.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)


text:
The commission, in behalf of the State, by itself or its agents or assigns, or through the department or its agents or assigns, may operate the transportation facilities of any toll bridge or other highway crossing constructed or acquired pursuant to this chapter and the additional transportation facilities authorized to be constructed or acquired pursuant to this chapter. This power may be exercised upon default of any party contracting under Section 30104 or 30105 with the commission for the transportation of persons or property for hire over any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, or upon the termination or cessation of any such contract or agreement, or in the absence of such contract or agreement.

Prior to the operation of any such transportation facilities by the commission or its agents or assigns or by the department or its agents or assigns, the commission shall first determine that the operation thereof is advisable or necessary for the financing of the bridge or other toll highway crossing, or for the proper or necessary use of the bridge or other toll highway crossing, and is for the best interests of the State.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 141.)


text: The commission, the officials thereof, and all state officials may do such acts and make such agreements not inconsistent with law as are necessary or desirable in connection with the duties and powers conferred upon them respectively by law regarding the construction, maintenance, operation, and insurance of toll bridges or other highway crossings, and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, or the safeguarding of the funds and revenues required for such purposes and the payment of the indebtedness incurred therefor.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 142.)


text:
The department and commission shall consider the inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian facilities on each new toll bridge designed and constructed pursuant to this division, including appropriate connections thereto. Such facilities shall be included on each such new bridge if the commission finds that they are economically and physically feasible. If the commission finds such facilities are not feasible, it shall report its findings to the Legislature at least one year prior to commencement of construction, including the facts on which the commission based its decision.

The cost of the bicycle and pedestrian facilities on the approaches to the toll bridge shall be paid by the commission as a part of the cost of construction of the toll bridge, unless the cost of such facilities is to be paid by a governmental agency other than a state agency. The feasibility study for such facilities shall reflect whether the commission or a governmental agency other than a state agency shall pay the cost of such facilities.

The Legislature finds that the increased use of the bicycle is a desirable activity which should be encouraged by the improvement of access available to that mode of transportation. It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to provide for the use of toll bridges by both pedestrians and bicycles, wherever this is economically and physically feasible.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 143.)


text:
(a) The commission may utilize net revenues from toll bridges in order to finance research on high technology motion control devices to be used on the bridges.

(b) If the Metropolitan Transportation Commission allocates toll bridge net revenues as defined in Section 30884, it may utilize net revenues from the bridges under its jurisdiction to finance the research referred to in subdivision (a).

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 2004.)


text:
(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 in Section 1940.41 of the Civil Code, over any state-owned bridge, on which the travel of pedestrians, bicycles, or personal micromobility devices is otherwise authorized, and on which tolls are imposed on the passage of motor vehicles.

(b) Subdivision (a) shall not apply if the bridge was under construction on or after January 1, 2025, and if the tolls are used to fund the cost of constructing the bridge.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 731, Sec. 2. (AB 2669) Effective January 1, 2025.)


text: The department shall have full charge of the acquisition and construction of all toll bridges and other toll highway crossings, transportation facilities, and additional transportation facilities authorized by the commission, the operation and maintenance thereof, and the collection of tolls thereon. The director shall proceed with the construction of the toll bridges and other highway crossings, transportation facilities, and additional transportation facilities immediately upon funds for such work being made available, and shall prosecute the work to completion as rapidly as possible.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 145.)

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text: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 60 days after the effective date of this section, tolls on state-owned toll bridges shall be based on the number of axles on a vehicle or the total number of axles on a vehicle plus the total number of axles on a drawn trailer or vehicle.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 252, Sec. 3. Effective August 11, 1997.)

article: 4. General Powers and Duties of the Department of Transportation


text: The department, at the time it submits any request, or develops and submits any program, to the California Transportation Commission for capital expenditure or improvement on any toll bridge under the jurisdiction of the California Transportation Commission and located within the region under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, shall transmit a copy of the request or program, as the case may be, to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which shall review the request or program and transmit its findings and recommendations thereon to the department and the California Transportation Commission for consideration.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 579, Sec. 43.)


text: Whenever the department offers for sale to the public coupons or commuter ticket books redeemable for the toll on any toll bridge located within the region under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, as specified in Section 66502 of the Government Code, the department shall make the coupons or commuter ticket books available at locations convenient to the public, which shall not be limited to toll bridge facilities, and by mail.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 932, Sec. 2.)


text: No part of any additional transportation facilities authorized, however, shall be constructed or operated by the commission, or by any person or public or private corporation, within any county or city, unless and until the route thereof within the county or city has been approved by the board of supervisors, city council, or other legislative body thereof, as the case may be, notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 147.)


text: The department, through its own engineers or through such other engineers or experts as it may employ, shall design all bridges, transportation facilities, and additional transportation facilities to be built pursuant to this chapter, and may build them or any portions of them either by its own employees or by contract with any person. The cost of any or all such bridges, transportation facilities, and additional transportation facilities shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, or from contributions or appropriations from other sources as provided in this chapter.


text: All such bridges, transportation facilities, and additional transportation facilities or portion thereof shall be built by the department in accordance with The State Contract Act insofar as the provisions of that act are applicable, except that the amount of the cash, bidders’ bonds, or certified checks required to accompany any bid submitted, when bids relating to the construction of any bridge or highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities are called for, shall be fixed and determined by the department.


text: The department shall require of each contractor such bonds for the faithful performance of any contract or subcontract entered into pursuant to this chapter and for the payment for any labor, materials, or supplies used in, upon, for or about the performance of the work contracted to be done, fixing such terms and conditions, and in such amounts, as it deems to be for the best interests of the State. Money realized on any such bonds shall be paid into the acquisition and construction fund of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing involved.


text: The commission may authorize the department to acquire or construct tubes, tunnels, subways, underpasses, or overpasses either in connection with bridges or as separate highway crossings whenever the department deems such acquisition or construction advisable. All of the provisions of this chapter shall be fully applicable to the tubes, tunnels, subways, underpasses, or overpasses, the acquisition and construction of which is so authorized, and they shall be included within the word “bridge.”

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 148.)


text: The department may designate and adopt as a state highway any county road or portion thereof connecting a state highway with a publicly owned bridge or publicly owned toll bridge.


text: The commission and the department shall keep full, complete, and separate accounts of each toll bridge or other crossing, and annually shall prepare balance sheets and income and profit and loss statements showing the financial condition of each toll bridge or other highway crossing. The statements shall be open to the inspection of holders of bonds issued by the commission at all reasonable times.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 149.)


text: The department may issue permits for the use of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing acquired or constructed pursuant to this chapter on a credit basis. Except in the case of municipal or other public corporations, governmental agencies, or common carriers having contracts directly with the commission for the operation of the transportation facilities of the bridge or crossing, and except as provided in Section 30161.5, the department shall require the holder of a permit for the use of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing on a credit basis to furnish and maintain in force a bond executed by an admitted surety insurer, approved by the department, in an amount equal to twice the department’s estimate of the toll charges to be incurred under the permit during one month.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 589, Sec. 182. Effective January 1, 1994.)


text: The department may revoke any permit granted for failure of the holder to comply with its terms.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 517, Sec. 382.)


text: The department may also require the holder of any such permit to pay a fee of not to exceed seven dollars ($7) a month and, in addition thereto, such other fee for each individual credit transaction which, when combined with the monthly fee, will cover the estimated printing and other overhead expense, the proceeds thereof to be deposited in the fund from which such expenses are paid.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1172.)


text: When necessary to facilitate movement of traffic, the department may limit the use of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing on a credit basis to particular classes of vehicles.


text:
(a) For any bridge at which an automatic vehicle identification system, as described in this section, has been installed and is in operation, the department may waive the requirement that the holder of a credit permit furnish and maintain a surety bond. The automatic vehicle identification system shall have the capability of identifying each vehicle operating under the permit and of tabulating the number of bridge crossings by those vehicles. This section does not affect the authority of the department under Section 30796.8.

(b) The department shall notify the Legislature of the date upon which it commences operation of the system described in subdivision (a) on any bridge other than the bridge described in Section 30796.

(c) This section shall become inoperative five years from the date specified by the department pursuant to subdivision (b), and as of January 1 next following that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which becomes effective on or before that January 1, deletes or extends that date.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 728, Sec. 173. (SB 71) Effective January 1, 2013. Inoperative on date prescribed in subd. (c). Repealed on January 1 following inoperative date, by its own provisions.)


text: If the department is unable to collect any tolls due to insolvency of the obligor, or if the cost of collection of any tolls would be excessive by reason of the smallness of the amount due, the department may apply to the Controller for discharge from accountability for the collection thereof in the manner provided in Sections 13940 to 13943, inclusive, of the Government Code.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 31, Sec. 276. (SB 836) Effective June 27, 2016.)


text: The proceeds from the sale of all bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter shall be paid to the State Treasurer for the credit of the commission and forthwith deposited as demand deposits in such depositary or depositaries as are authorized by law to receive deposits of state funds, to the credit of a fund to be designated as the acquisition and construction fund of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities for which the bonds were issued and sold. The fund shall, at all times, be kept segregated and set apart from all other funds.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 184.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money

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text: The proceeds from the sale of the bonds shall be paid out or disbursed solely for the acquisition or construction of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities, the acquisition of the necessary lands and easements therefor, and the payment of interest on the bonds during the period of actual construction and for a period of six months thereafter, only as the need therefor arises. The commission may agree with the purchaser of the bonds upon any conditions or limitations restricting the disbursement of such funds which are deemed advisable for the purpose of assuring the proper application of the funds.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 185.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text:
All money in the particular acquisition and construction fund not required to meet current acquisition or construction costs of the toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities for which the bonds were issued and sold, and all funds constituting surplus revenues which are not immediately needed for the particular object or purpose to which they are required to be applied or to which they are pledged, shall be invested in bonds and obligations eligible for investment of surplus state money.

The commission may provide, in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of the bonds, that the investment of such money shall be made only in particular bonds and obligations within the classifications eligible for such investment, and such provisions shall be binding upon the commission and all officials having anything to do with the investment.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 186.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text:
Any surplus which exists in the particular acquisition and construction fund shall be applied to the retirement, by purchase or call, of bonds issued for the acquisition or construction of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities. If the bonds cannot be purchased at a price satisfactory to the commission and are not by their terms callable prior to maturity, the surplus shall be paid into the fund applicable to the payment of principal and interest of the bonds and shall be used for that purpose.

The proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds may provide limitations and conditions upon the time and manner of applying the surplus to the purchase and call of outstanding bonds and the terms upon which they shall be purchased or called, and such limitations and conditions shall be followed and observed in the application and use of the surplus.

All bonds retired by purchase or call shall be immediately canceled.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 187.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: All tolls or other revenues received from the operation of any toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities acquired or constructed with the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be paid over by the department at least monthly to the State Treasurer who shall deposit them forthwith in such depositary or depositaries as are authorized by law to receive deposits of state funds, to the credit of a special fund to be designated as the toll revenue fund of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities producing the tolls or revenue, which fund shall at all times be kept segregated and set apart from all other funds.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: From the money deposited in each separate acquisition and construction fund, the State Treasurer shall transfer to the place or places of payment named in the bonds such sums as are required to pay the interest as it becomes due on all bonds sold and outstanding for the construction of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities during the period of actual construction and during the period of six months immediately thereafter. The treasurer shall thereafter transfer from each separate toll revenue fund to the place or places of payment named in the bonds such sums as are required to pay the interest on the bonds and to redeem the principal thereof as such interest payments and bond redemptions fall due for all bonds issued and sold for the construction or acquisition of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities producing the tolls or revenues deposited in the toll revenue fund. All funds transferred for the payment of principal or interest on bonds issued for any particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities shall be segregated and applied solely for the payment of such principal and interest.

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: The money remaining in each separate toll revenue fund, after providing the amount required for interest and redemption of bonds, shall be held and applied as provided in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of the bonds. If the proceedings authorizing the issuance of the bonds do not require surplus revenues to be held or applied in any particular manner, they shall be allocated and used for other purposes incidental to the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities as the commission determines.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 681, Sec. 74.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: Warrants for payments to be made on account of the bonds shall be duly drawn by the State Controller upon request of the State Treasurer whenever the drawing of the warrants is required in order to make such payments.

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: Money required to meet the costs of acquisition or construction and all expenses and costs incidental to the acquisition or construction of any particular toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities, or to meet the costs of operating, maintaining, and repairing them, shall be paid from the proper fund therefor upon demand of the department and after audit thereof as provided by law upon warrants drawn by the Controller.

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: All interest received or earned on money deposited in each and every fund provided for in this article shall be credited to and become a part of the particular fund upon which the interest accrues.

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, the proceeds received from the sale of bonds and the tolls or other revenues received from the operation of any particular toll bridge or other highway crossings, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities may be used to defray any expenses incurred by the commission in connection with and incidental to the issuance and sale of bonds for the acquisition or construction of the particular toll bridge or other highway crossings, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities, including expenses for the preparation of surveys and estimates and the making of inspections and examinations as may be required by the purchasers of the bonds, except that the proceedings authorizing the issuance of the bonds may contain appropriate provisions governing the use and application of the bond proceeds and toll or other revenues for the purposes specified in this section.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 188.)

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: Insofar as any issue of bonds pursuant to this chapter for the acquisition or construction of any particular toll bridge or other highway crossing includes the acquisition or construction of any transportation facilities or additional transportation facilities to or of any such toll bridge or other highway crossing pursuant to this chapter, the provisions of this article with respect to the receipt and disposition of the proceeds from the sale of bonds, the acquisition and construction funds referred to, the receipt and disposition of tolls, the toll revenue funds, and the other provisions with respect to the receipt and disbursement of money or funds are equally applicable to the money or funds relating to such transportation facilities or additional transportation facilities as with respect to such toll bridge or other highway crossing.

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: If the bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter for the acquisition or construction of the transportation facilities or additional transportation facilities do not include the toll bridge or other highway crossing to which such transportation facilities or additional transportation facilities relate, the provisions of this article with respect to the receipt and disposition of the proceeds from the sale of bonds, the acquisition and construction funds referred to, the receipt and disposition of tolls, the toll revenue funds, and the other provisions with respect to the receipt and disbursement of money and funds are applicable to the money or funds relating to such transportation facilities or additional transportation facilities.

article: 6. Custody and Use of Money


text: The department may acquire by gift, purchase, or eminent domain proceedings any bridge, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities, and any franchise, rights, privileges, easements, or other property either real or personal appurtenant thereto, when the acquisition or construction of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities is authorized by the commission.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 192.)

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text:
In eminent domain proceedings to acquire property for any of the purposes of this chapter, any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, real property, personal property, franchises, rights, easements, or other property or privileges appurtenant thereto appropriated or dedicated to a public use or purpose by any person, private, public, or municipal corporation, county, city, district, or any political subdivision of the state, may be condemned and taken, and the acquisition and use thereof as provided in this chapter for the same public use or purpose to which such property has been appropriated or dedicated or for any other public use or purpose, shall be deemed a superior and permanent right and necessity, and a more necessary use and purpose than the public use or purpose to which such property has already been appropriated or dedicated.

It shall not be necessary in any eminent domain proceedings pursuant to this section to plead or prove any acts or proceedings preliminary or prior to the adoption of the resolution required by Section 1245.220 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1239.)

article: 8. Acquisition and Disposition of Property


text:
In eminent domain proceedings to acquire property for any of the purposes of this chapter, any transportation facilities, additional transportation facilities, real property, personal property, franchises, rights, easements, or other property or privileges appurtenant thereto appropriated or dedicated to a public use or purpose by any person, private, public, or municipal corporation, county, city, district, or any political subdivision of the state may be condemned and taken and the acquisition and use thereof as provided in this chapter for the same public use or purpose to which such property has been appropriated or dedicated or for any other public use or purpose shall be deemed a superior and permanent right and necessity, and a more necessary use and purpose than the public use or purpose to which such property has already been appropriated or dedicated, except as to real estate, personal property, franchises, rights, privileges, or easements actively used by or necessary for the operation or a common carrier by railroad other than those used primarily by such railroad for the transportation of persons or property by interurban operation to and from an area within 50 miles from either end of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing acquired or constructed pursuant to this chapter.

Except for such prior railroad use, it shall not be necessary in any eminent domain proceedings pursuant to this section to plead or prove any acts or proceedings preliminary or prior to the adoption of the resolution required by Section 1245.220 of the Code of Civil Procedure.


text: When the State, or any department or governmental agency thereof, acquires any existing toll bridge or the real or personal property used in connection therewith, such property and toll bridge shall continue to be subject to taxation by the county, political subdivision, and municipal corporation in which it is located, and the State shall pay to the county granting the franchise for the bridge such amounts as become due to the county for the franchise for the construction of the toll bridge.


text: The right of way is given, dedicated, and set apart upon which to locate, construct, and maintain bridges or other highway crossings, transportation facilities, and additional transportation facilities which have been or may be constructed pursuant to this chapter, through, over, under, on or across any property of the State, including highways, now or hereafter owned, opened, or dedicated to or for public use and howsoever acquired, and through, over, under, on, or across the streets, alleys, lanes, and roads now or hereafter opened or dedicated to or for public use and howsoever acquired which are now or may be within any county, city, public or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision of the State.


text: If any property belonging to any county, city, public or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision of the state is taken for the acquisition or construction of any bridge or other toll highway crossing, or the transportation facilities or additional transportation facilities thereof or thereto, or if any such property is injured or damaged by such acquisition or construction, and the payment of compensation therefor is necessary, proper, and necessary, compensation therefor as is agreed upon may be paid by the commission to the particular county, city, public or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision of the state owning or in charge of such property, or the commission may direct that eminent domain proceedings be brought pursuant to this article for the determination of such compensation, including the determination of the interest of any such county, city, public or municipal corporation, district, or political subdivision in such property and the necessity for the payment of such compensation.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 193.)


text: In all cases where, by statute or otherwise, any right is reserved or granted to the state or any state agency to construct or maintain highways, bridges, or approaches thereto, or other highway crossings, or railroads, or transportation facilities over, through, under, on, or across any public or private property, the commission is entitled to the benefit of such reservation or grant.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 194.)


text: Whenever any property acquired for any of the purposes of this chapter, whether by agreement, grant, or eminent domain, either in fee or in any lesser estate or interest, is no longer necessary for use in connection with any improvement authorized to be constructed pursuant to this chapter, or whenever a lesser interest than is owned therein is sufficient for the construction, maintenance, and operation of any improvement, or whenever it is for any other reason in the public interest to do so, the property, any part thereof, or any interest therein may be leased, sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of or dealt with by the director in the manner, upon such terms, and subject to such reservations as are first approved by the commission.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 195.)


text: Whenever, either before or after the construction or reconstruction of streets, sidewalks, or other like facilities upon any property or interest in property acquired pursuant to this chapter, it appears desirable to dedicate the property to public use for such purpose, the director, with the approval of the commission, may dedicate or transfer the property to any county, city, or other public or municipal corporation within which it is located, subject, however, to any rights or interests necessary for the proper construction, maintenance, and operation of any bridge, highway crossing, or transportation facility which extends through, over, under, on, or across the property.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 196.)


text: Any agreement, lease, or conveyance authorized by this chapter shall be executed or accepted on behalf of the State by the director.


text: Any money received for any such property shall be received into the funds for the bridge, other highway crossing, or transportation facilities for which the property was originally acquired.


text: When any toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities authorized pursuant to this chapter is being built by the department, the department and the commission, or either of them, may carry, or cause to be carried, such an amount of insurance or indemnity bond as protection against loss or damage as the commission deems proper.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 197.)

article: 9. Insurance of Property

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text: The commission may carry insurance in such amount as it deems proper to cover any accident or destruction, in part or in whole, to any toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities until all bonds sold for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities and interest accrued thereon have been fully redeemed and paid.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 198.)

article: 9. Insurance of Property


text: All money collected on any indemnity bond or insurance policy as the result of any damage or injury to any such toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities shall be used for the purpose of repairing or rebuilding the toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities, as long as there are revenue bonds against any such structure outstanding and unredeemed.

article: 9. Insurance of Property


text:
The commission may also carry insurance or indemnity bonds insuring against the loss of tolls or other revenues to be derived from any toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities by reason of any interruption in the use of the toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities from any cause whatever.

The proceeds of the insurance or indemnity bonds shall be paid into the fund into which the tolls and other revenues of the bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities so insured are required to be paid and shall be applied to the same purposes and in the same manner as other money in the fund.

The insurance or indemnity bonds may be in an amount equal to the probable tolls and other revenues to be received from the operation of the toll bridge or other highway crossing, transportation facilities, or additional transportation facilities during any period of time determined upon by the commission and fixed in its discretion, and may be paid for out of the toll revenue fund as specified in the proceedings.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 199.)

article: 9. Insurance of Property


text: Any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the state, upon the request of the department or of the commission, may advance or contribute money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and other property toward the expense of building, acquiring, and maintaining the toll bridge or other highway crossing, and the transportation facilities thereof and thereto referred to in this chapter, and for preliminary surveys and the preparation of plans and estimates of cost thereof and other preliminary expenses. Appropriations for such purposes may be made from any funds available, including highway funds received from the state.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 200.)

article: 10. Local Cooperation

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text: Any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the State may issue general obligation bonds for any of the purposes enumerated in this article. All proceedings for the authorization, issue, and sale of such bonds shall be had under the law governing the issue and sale of bonds for public improvements by the particular political subdivision or public corporation.

article: 10. Local Cooperation


text: Money or property advanced or contributed pursuant to this article may be immediately transferred or delivered to the department or to the commission to be used for the purpose for which the advance or contribution was made.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 201.)

article: 10. Local Cooperation


text: The commission may enter into a binding agreement with any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the state to repay any money or the value of any rights-of-way, labor, materials, or other property advanced or contributed toward the expense of acquiring or constructing any toll bridge or other highway crossing, or the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, acquired or constructed pursuant to this chapter, but no repayment therefor shall be made until all obligations issued by the commission for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing, and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, have been fully redeemed and paid, and then only out of the tolls and revenues received from the operation of the toll bridge or other highway crossing.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 202.)

article: 10. Local Cooperation


text: The collection of tolls shall be continued on any particular toll bridge or other highway crossing until all bonds issued pursuant to this chapter for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing or the transportation facilities thereof or thereto are fully redeemed and paid.

article: 10. Local Cooperation


text: After all bonds issued pursuant to this chapter for the acquisition or construction of any toll bridge or other highway crossing and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto have been fully redeemed and paid, the commission may continue to collect tolls and other revenues for the use of the toll bridge or other highway crossing for the purpose of reimbursing the state for any expenditures which have been made by it in connection with the toll bridge or other highway crossing, and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, and for the purpose of repayment to any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the state of any amount the commission has agreed to repay for money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, or other property advanced or contributed for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing or transportation facilities thereof or thereto.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 203.)

article: 10. Local Cooperation


text:
Any city, county, incorporated bridge and highway district, or joint highway district may, by proper resolution of its governing body, petition the commission requesting the commission to authorize the acquisition or construction of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing across any waters, bays, arms of bays, rivers, or streams wholly within, or bordering upon, or wholly without the limits of any such political subdivision or public corporation.

If the commission refuses to authorize the acquisition or construction of the proposed toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, or if the commission does not within three years from the receipt of the petition authorize the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, the city, county, bridge and highway district, or joint highway district, either singly or in conjunction with other cities, counties, bridge and highway districts, or joint highway districts, may acquire or construct the toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, subject to the limitations of Article 7 (commencing with Section 30350).

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 204.)

article: 10. Local Cooperation


text:
As used in this article, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Authority” means the Bay Area Toll Authority created pursuant to Chapter 4.3 (commencing with Section 30950).

(b) “Toll bridge” means that certain bridge across San Francisco Bay known as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the approaches thereto.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 2004.)

chapter: 2. Particular Highway Crossings

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

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text: The toll bridge and the approaches to it are a primary state highway. No law providing that state highways shall be free highways affects the power or duty of the authority to fix the rates of toll for the toll bridge or the power and duty of the department to collect the tolls so fixed by the authority for the use of the toll bridge.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge


text: The department shall permanently maintain and operate the toll bridge as a primary state highway in such a manner that the physical condition and operating efficiency thereof shall be of the highest character.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 176.)

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge


text: The department shall at all times cause the toll bridge to comply with all lawful orders of the United States Secretary of Defense, the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and of any other governmental agency or authority having jurisdiction thereof.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge


text: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, local and state permitting authorities shall not impose any requirement that a bicycle, pedestrian, or mass transit facility be constructed on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as a condition for issuing any permit, granting any easement, or granting any other form of approval needed, for the construction of a new bridge.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 327, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1998.)

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge


text: The cost of operating and maintaining the architectural lights on the toll bridge shall be paid by the department from toll bridge revenue funds available for the operation of the toll bridge.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 18. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge


text: Expenditures for maintenance and operation of the Terminal Building in San Francisco shall be proper charges against the revenues of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1592.)

article: 1. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge


text: As used in this article, “toll bridge” means a toll bridge, with at least four lanes, across Los Angeles Harbor from San Pedro at or near Boschke Slough to Terminal Island, and the approaches thereto.

history: (History: Repealed and added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 74.)

article: 3. San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge

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text:
For the purpose of providing funds for all engineering, traffic, and financial studies and expenses in connection with the financing and the preparation of the necessary surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates of cost for the construction of the toll bridge, and for the purpose of providing such additional funds, over and above the amount which can be raised through the issuance of revenue bonds, as may be necessary in order to complete the financing of the toll bridge, the commission may, from time to time, direct the State Controller to transfer to the commission, for expenditure by the department, the following amounts:

(a) From money in the State Highway Account required to be expended for the construction of state highways in the County of Los Angeles pursuant to former Section 188.4, as repealed by Chapter 1386 of the Statutes of 1963, a sum sufficient to complete the project over and above the amounts made available from the proceeds of revenue bonds and the amounts made available in subdivisions (b) and (c).

(b) Not to exceed the total of two million dollars ($2,000,000) from money in the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund available for apportionment to the County of Los Angeles. Any amount so transferred shall be deemed to be in the Highway Users Tax Account for the purpose of making the apportionments from that account, but the amount payable to the County of Los Angeles from the Highway Users Tax Account shall be reduced by an amount equal to the transfers so made.

(c) Not to exceed the total of two million dollars ($2,000,000) from money in the State Highway Account available for allocation and expenditure for city streets within the City of Los Angeles pursuant to Section 2107. Any amount so transferred shall be deemed to be in the State Highway Account for the purpose of making the allocations mentioned in Section 2107, but the amount expended from the State Highway Account for city streets within the City of Los Angeles shall be reduced by an amount equal to the transfers so made.

Of the first nine million dollars ($9,000,000) required for the purpose of completing the project over and above the amount available from the sale of revenue bonds, the transfer shall be made from the above sources as follows:

Five-ninths from the State Highway Account, two-ninths from the funds mentioned in subdivision (b) and two-ninths from the amounts mentioned in subdivision (c). Additional necessary amounts shall be transferred from the State Highway Account upon resolution of the commission. The transfers shall be paid out or disbursed solely for the studies and expenses above mentioned and the preparation of the necessary surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates of cost, and for the construction of the toll bridge and the acquisition of the necessary lands and easements therefor. Any amount of the transfers not so expended shall be returned to the particular portion of the account from which it was transferred and shall be apportioned or allocated from the account and expended as if the transfer had not been made.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 214.)

article: 3. San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge


text: The amounts transferred pursuant to Section 30682 shall be repaid to the respective accounts from which transferred, but no repayment thereof shall be required until all obligations issued by the commission for the construction of the toll bridge and all bonds issued for refunding of the bonds and for additions, betterments, and extensions to the toll bridge, including new and additional approaches thereto, have been fully redeemed and paid, and then only out of the tolls and revenue received from the operation of the toll bridge.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 215.)

article: 3. San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge


text:
After all bonds issued for the construction of the toll bridge and all bonds issued for refunding of the bonds and for additions, betterments, and extensions to the toll bridge, including new and additional approaches thereto, have been fully redeemed and paid, the commission shall continue to collect tolls and other revenues for the use of the toll bridge for the purpose of repaying the respective accounts from which money has been transferred pursuant to Section 30682. The amount so repaid to any such account shall be returned to the particular portion of the account from which it was transferred and shall be apportioned or allocated from the account and expended as if the transfer had not been made.

Upon repayment of all the accounts, the bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls or the rate of tolls shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper operation, maintenance, and insurance of the toll bridge under economical management.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 216.)

article: 3. San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge


text: The cost of operation of the toll bridge, including the cost of insurance against loss of tolls or other revenue therefrom, shall be paid from the tolls and revenue received from the use and operation of said bridge. The cost of physical maintenance, including the cost of insurance of said bridge against all risks, shall be paid by the department as provided in Section 188.3 of this code.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 2.)

article: 3. San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge


text: The commission shall transfer fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Account in the State Transportation Fund from funds in the Vincent Thomas Toll Bridge Revenue Account.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 327, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1998.)

article: 3. San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge


text:
As used in this article:

(a) “Carquinez Bridge” means those certain bridge spans on Interstate Route 80 across the Carquinez Straits near Crockett, together with any existing or new and additional approaches thereto, necessary or desirable to connect with the present spans or any additional spans and the toll collection facilities to serve both the existing bridge span and any additional spans.

(b) “Benicia-Martinez Bridge” means the toll bridge across the Carquinez Straits on Interstate Route 680 connecting the Cities of Benicia and Martinez, together with any existing or new and additional approaches thereto, necessary or desirable with respect to the present span or any spans and toll collection facilities for the bridge and any additional spans.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 20. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 4. Bridges Across Carquinez Straits

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text: The department is authorized to lay out, acquire, and construct the Carquinez Bridge and the Benicia-Martinez Bridge and to make any modification, improvement, and reconstruction of the bridges as is necessary to adequately handle anticipated traffic and permit the collection of tolls.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 21. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 4. Bridges Across Carquinez Straits


text: As used in this article, “Antioch Bridge” means the high-level fixed-span bridge across the San Joaquin River near Antioch together with the approaches thereto and the toll collection facilities for the bridge.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 28. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 4.5. Antioch Bridge

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text: The department is authorized to modify, improve, reconstruct, and remodel the Antioch Bridge as is necessary to adequately handle anticipated traffic and permit the collection of tolls.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 715, Sec. 29. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 4.5. Antioch Bridge


text:
As used in this article:

(a) “District” means the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.

(b) “Rapid transit tube” means a subaqueous tube across San Francisco Bay between the City and County of San Francisco and the County of Alameda, its approaches and fixed transit facilities, including, but not limited to, ventilation towers and equipment, tracks, and electrical distribution, control, lighting, and communication systems for the accommodation of rail rapid transit. The San Francisco terminus of the underwater portion of the rapid transit tube shall be located westward of the shoreline of San Francisco Bay as close thereto as may be reasonably practicable between Howard and Jackson Streets in the City and County of San Francisco. The Alameda County terminus shall be the Southern Pacific mole or as close thereto as may be reasonably practicable.

(c) “Approaches” means all facilities between the terminus in Alameda County and the first station thereafter in the county for the discharge of passengers, and all facilities between the terminus in the City and County of San Francisco and the easterly end of the passenger platform of the Montgomery Street Station defined as “approaches” in the agreement between the department and the district, dated March 3, 1966.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 227.)

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text:
On and after the date revenues are made available to the district under Article 2 (commencing with Section 29140) of Chapter 7 of Part 2 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code and notwithstanding any agreement between the district and the department to the contrary, the district shall have sole control and responsibility over all matters relating to the rapid transit tube, including construction. On and after the imposition of such transactions and use tax, the department shall have no authority or responsibility relative to the tube, including actions taken or disbursements made by the district relative thereto whether made heretofore or hereafter. Upon completion and acceptance by the district of all or any portion of the tube, and notwithstanding any existing agreement between the district and the department, title to any such portion shall immediately vest in the district, and the state shall have no further obligation or responsibility therefor except its obligations to aid in the financing of the rapid transit tube as provided in this article. Funds to be provided to the district hereunder shall be furnished to the district by the department in accordance with schedules furnished by the district to the department from time to time showing the amounts reasonably required by the district from time to time to meet its accruing obligations for costs of the rapid transit tube and approaches. Such schedules shall be furnished monthly or at such other intervals as the district and the department may agree upon.

The department is authorized to retain in a fund established for such purpose money to cover contingent liabilities including claims arising out of the construction contracts. The district may deposit in such fund moneys derived from Article 2 (commencing with Section 29140) of Chapter 7 of Part 2 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code or other moneys or credits available to the district. The amounts to be retained in such fund and disbursements from such fund shall be at the direction of the department. The department, however, shall not retain a greater amount than is necessary to cover anticipated claims by the contractor or moneys necessary to meet estimated contingent liabilities. In determining the amount of claims and contingencies, the department shall, to the greatest extent possible, base such amounts upon evaluation of the amount of claims and contingent items prepared by the district.

The department shall to the extent practicable invest moneys in such fund in bonds and obligations eligible for investment of surplus state money. All moneys placed in such fund by the district which are not derived from revenues of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Toll Revenue Fund shall be invested separately and any interest thereon shall be credited to the district. The department shall return to the district any such moneys not necessary to cover claims or contingencies.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 24.)

article: 5. San Francisco-Oakland Rapid Transit Tube


text: All the provisions of the California Toll Bridge Authority Act (Chapter 1 (commencing at Section 30000) of this division) applicable to toll highway crossings shall apply to the activities of the department and the authority in connection with the rapid transit tube insofar as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this article. The provisions of said act shall not apply to the district and shall not require or permit the fixing of a toll by the department or the authority for the use of the rapid transit tube. The district shall have the sole and exclusive right to the use of the rapid transit tube in the absence of an agreement between the district and any other party for any use by such other party on payment of appropriate compensation to the district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1755.)