Amended in Assembly March 15, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1814

Introduced by Assembly Member Travis Allen

February 8, 2016

An act to begin delete amend end delete begin insert add end insert Section begin delete 220 of end delete begin insert 218.5 to end insert the Streets and Highways Code, relating to state highways.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1814, as amended, Travis Allen. State highways: roadside rests.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to plan, design, and construct a system of safety roadside rests along state highways. Existing law begin delete requires the department to design only those safety roadside rests that are reasonably economical and that will provide the motorist a place where he or she may stop for a short time during daytime and nighttime hours. end delete begin insert provides that roadside rests are deemed to be part of the state highway right-of-way. end insert

This bill would begin delete make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. end delete begin insert require the department, by January 1, 2018, to update the Safety Roadside Rest Master Plan, and to identify any changes to state or federal law that would be required in order to facilitate public-private partnerships for roadside rest areas that would be located outside of the highway right-of-way. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert Section 218.5 is added to the end insert begin insert Streets and
Highways Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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The department, on or before January 1, 2018, shall
update the Safety Roadside Rest Area Master Plan. In updating
the plan, the department shall identify any changes to state or
federal law that would be required in order to facilitate
public-private partnerships for roadside rest areas that would be
located outside of the highway right-of-way.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 220 of the Streets and Highways Code
is amended to read:

220.  

(a) In designing safety roadside rests, the department
shall design only those safety roadside rests that are reasonably
economical and that will provide the motorist a place where he or
she may stop for a short time during daytime and nighttime hours.
The Legislature recognizes that the size of these safety roadside
rests, together with the facilities therein, will differ according to
location and potential use. The safety roadside rests may contain,
among other things, depending upon the size and use thereof,
parking places for vehicles, picnic tables, sanitary facilities,
telephones, water, landscaping, tourist information panels, traveler
service information facilities, and facilities for the distribution of
current news. The safety roadside rests shall not contain camping
or recreational facilities.

(b) The safety roadside rests located on that portion of Route 5
in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area may also contain
displays and examples of California agriculture.

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