BILL NUMBER: AB 595	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Norby

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to amend Section 101 of the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 595, as introduced, Norby. State highways: naming and
designation by the Legislature.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation shall
have full possession and control of the state highway system.
Existing law, when the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, has
designated names for certain districts and state highway bridges and
requested the placement of name plaques, authorizes the department to
expend reasonable sums on those plaques.
    This bill would revise the existing provisions to also apply to
designation of other transportation facilities owned and operated by
the department, and would authorize the department to expend
reasonable sums on plaques or signs for designated districts,
highways, highway bridges, or other facilities only upon receipt of
nonstate funds sufficient to cover the cost.
   This bill, notwithstanding these provisions, would, for calendar
years 2012 and 2013, provide that no highways, bridges, or other
transportation facilities owned and operated by the department or
districts through which a state highway passes shall be named or
otherwise designated by the Legislature, and no plaques or signs
shall be erected by the department to reflect the naming or
designation of a highway, bridge, other transportation facility, or
district during those calendar years.
   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 101 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended
to read:
   101.  (a) The department shall keep in repair all objects or
markers adjacent to a state highway  which  
that  have been erected to mark registered historical places and
shall keep  such   those  markers free
from vegetation  which   that  may obscure
them from view.
   (b) When the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, has designated
names for certain districts  and   or 
state  highways,  highway bridges,  or other
transportation facilities owned and operated by the department 
and requested the placing of name plaques  or signs  at the
boundaries of the districts or on the  highways,  bridges,
 or other transportation facilities,  the department is
authorized to expend reasonable sums for  such  
those  plaques  or signs upon receipt of nonstate funds
sufficient to cover the cost  .
   (c) Any major bridge not previously named by the Legislature may
be named by the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, for a
serviceman killed in action who was a resident of the county in which
the bridge is located. The name shall be selected from names
submitted to the department by veterans' associations as defined by
Section 1260 of the Military and Veterans Code. 
   (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for calendar years
2012 and 2013, no highways, bridges, or other transportation
facilities owned and operated by the department or districts through
which a state highway passes shall be named or otherwise designated
by the Legislature, and no plaques or signs shall be erected in that
regard by the department to reflect the naming or designation of a
highway, bridge, other transportation facility, or district during
those calendar years. This subdivision does not prohibit replacement
of a sign that is damaged or destroyed that relates to a naming or
designation of a highway, bridge, other transportation facility, or
district where the naming or designation occurred prior to January 1,
2012. This subdivision also does not preclude the department from
posting state highway route number signs, directional signs, and
other signs other than those to which this subdivision specifically
applies.