BILL NUMBER: AB 1814	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2016

   An act to  amend   add  Section 
220 of   218.5 to  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  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.  
provides that roadside rests are deemed to be part of the state
highway right-of-way. 
   This bill would  make nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.   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. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 218.5 is added to the 
 Streets and Highways Code   , to read:  
   218.5.  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.  
  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.