Bill Text: CA AB2124 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State highways: maintenance or construction: damage to

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-04 - Referred to Com. on TRANS. [AB2124 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2124-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2124	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Villines

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 93.5 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2124, as introduced, Villines. State highways: maintenance or
construction: damage to local roads.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has
full ownership and control of all state highways and associated
property. Existing law, with respect to a detour of state highway
traffic onto any other public highway due to construction or
otherwise, requires the department to reimburse the agency having
jurisdiction over the detour route for all additional reasonable
expenses incurred by the agency in maintaining the detour route if
those expenses were caused by the detour.
   This bill would require the department, with respect to state
highway maintenance activity or a state highway construction project
undertaken by the department, to be responsible for any damage
inflicted on any public highway under the jurisdiction of a local
agency from activities associated with the maintenance activity or
construction project by the department's own forces or by contractors
of the department.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 93.5 is added to the Streets and Highways Code,
to read:
   93.5.  The department, with respect to state highway maintenance
activity or a state highway construction project undertaken by the
department, shall be responsible for any damage inflicted on any
highway under the jurisdiction of a local agency from activities
associated with the maintenance activity or construction project by
the department's own forces or by contractors of the department,
including, but not limited to, the hauling of materials.