Senate Bill No. 1446

Introduced by Senator DeSaulnier

February 21, 2014

An act to amend Section 128 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to state highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1446, as introduced, DeSaulnier. State highways: projects.

Existing law authorizes and directs the Department of Transportation to lay out and construct all state highways. Existing law also requires the department to improve and maintain existing state highways.

Existing law requires the department to maintain, in each district office, a file of its final construction plans and right-of-way record maps for all completed state highway projects located within the district. Existing law authorizes the department to file, in the office of the recorder of the county in which any state highway is located, those plans, maps, or drawings of each state highway that the department deems necessary in the public interest, as specified. Existing law provides that in counties using a microfilm system, such plans, maps, or drawings may be microfilmed in lieu of filing.

This bill would allow the department to maintain any files created on or after January 1, 2014, in electronic form. The bill would delete the provision allowing the department to submit plans, maps, or drawings in microfilmed form. Instead, the bill would allow the department, in counties maintaining an appropriate electronic database, to submit plans, maps, or drawings to the office of the county recorder in electronic form in lieu of filing in that office as specified.

This bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

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 128 of the Streets and Highways Code
is amended to read:

128.  

begin delete The end delete begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert Except as provided in paragraph (2), the end insert
department shall maintain, in each district office, a file of its final
construction plans and right-of-way record maps for all completed
state highway projects located within the district. begin delete The end delete

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(2) The department may maintain any files created on and after
January 1, 2014, in electronic form.

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begin insert (b) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The end insert department may file, in the office of the recorder
of the county in which begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert state highway is located, begin delete such end delete begin insert those end insert
plans, maps, or drawings of each state highway as the department
deems necessary in the public interest, begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert the county
recorder shall accept and file without fee. No certificate need be
attached begin delete thereto end delete begin insert to the plans, maps, or drawings end insert other than the
usual title of the department showing the approval of begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert
plans, maps, or drawings by the proper officer or engineer of the
department.

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All

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begin insert (2) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert All end insert maps filed in the office of a county recorder pursuant to
this section shall conform to begin delete the provisions of end delete this paragraph. The
map shall be legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process
that provides a permanent record. Each sheet of paper or other
material used for begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert map shall be 22 by 36 inches in size,
shall have clearly shown begin delete therein end delete begin insert on the paper or material end insert the
particular number of the sheet, the total number of sheets
comprising the map, and its relation to each adjoining sheet, and
shall have encompassing its border a line that leaves a blank margin
one inch in width, except that the left side margin shall be two
inches in width. begin delete In any county using a microfilm system, such
plans, maps, or drawings may be microfilmed in lieu of filing. end delete

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(3) In any county maintaining an appropriate electronic
database, the plans, maps, or drawings submitted pursuant to this
subdivision may be submitted to the office of a county recorder in
electronic form in lieu of filing pursuant to paragraph (2).

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