BILL NUMBER: AB 1645	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Norby

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2012

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1645, 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 transfer the authority for naming highways,
bridges, pathways, and other transportation infrastructure from the
Legislature to the California Transportation Commission.
   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 have been erected to mark
registered historical places and shall keep such markers free from
vegetation which may obscure them from view.
   (b) When the  Legislature, by concurrent  
California Transportation Commission, by  resolution, has
designated names for certain districts  , state highways 
 or portions thereof, pedestrian or bicycle paths,  and
state highway bridges, and requested the placing of name plaques at
the boundaries of the districts  , highways, pathways,  or
on the bridges, the department is authorized to expend reasonable
sums for such plaques.
   (c) Any major bridge not previously named by the Legislature may
be named by the  Legislature, by concurrent  
commission by  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.