BILL NUMBER: SB 1446	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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.   The   (a)     (1)
    Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
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.
 The  
   (2) The department may maintain any files created on and after
January 1, 2014, in electronic form. 
    (b)     (1)     The 
department may file, in the office of the recorder of the county in
which  any   a  state highway is located,
 such   those  plans, maps, or drawings of
each state highway as the department deems necessary in the public
interest,  which   that  the county
recorder shall accept and file without fee. No certificate need be
attached  thereto   to the plans, maps, or
drawings  other than the usual title of the department showing
the approval of  such   the  plans, maps,
or drawings by the proper officer or engineer of the department.

   All 
    (2)     All  maps filed in the office
of a county recorder pursuant to this section shall conform to
 the provisions of  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
 such   the  map shall be 22 by 36 inches
in size, shall have clearly shown  therein   on
the paper or material  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.  In any county using a
microfilm system, such plans, maps, or drawings may be microfilmed in
lieu of filing.  
   (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).