Amended in Assembly June 25, 2014

Amended in Senate April 22, 2014

Senate Bill No. 842

Introduced by Senator Knight

(Coauthors: Senators Berryhill, Cannella, Fuller, Gaines, Huff, Nielsen, and Vidak)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Chávez, Donnelly, Jones, Nestande, Salas, Waldron, and Wilk)

January 7, 2014

An act to add Section 101.13 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 842, as amended, Knight. Highway signs: Veterans’ Home of California.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is in full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law provides for placement of signs on state highways, as specified.

This bill would require the department to erect, at appropriate locations on highways in the state highway system, begin insert generic end insert directional signs to each Veterans’ Home of California, upon receiving funds from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost.

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 101.13 is added to the Streets and
Highways Code, to read:

101.13.  

The department shall erect, at appropriate locations on
highways in the state highway system, begin insert generic end insert directional signs
to each Veterans’ Home of California authorized pursuant to
Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1010) or Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 1100) of Division 5 of the Military and
Veterans Code, upon receiving funds from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the cost.

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Placement of the signs shall be consistent with criteria for
signing to federal or state hospitals as set forth in the California
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, adopted pursuant to
Section 21400 of the Vehicle Code.

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