BILL NUMBER: AB 1309	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 27, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 4, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Miller
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Beth Gaines   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 969.7 of the Streets and Highways
Code, relating to public roads.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1309, as amended, Miller. Public roads: fire suppression.
   Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors, after
adopting a resolution, as specified, determining that the general
county interest demands the improvement or repair of a privately
owned road, to improve or repair that road and to pay for those
improvements or repairs in a like manner as improvements or repairs
of county highways.
   This bill, until January 1, 2017, would grant a board of
supervisors the same authority with respect to improvement and repair
of a public road that is not a county highway or part of the county
maintained system, if necessary for purposes of fire suppression.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 969.7 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
   969.7.   (a) A board of supervisors may, after it has determined
by a resolution adopted by a four-fifths vote of its membership that
the general county interest demands the improvement or repair of a
public road that is not a county highway and is not in the county
maintained system, improve or repair the road if the improvements or
repairs are necessary for the purpose of fire suppression. Those
improvements or repairs shall be made and paid for in  like
  the same  manner as improvements or repairs of
county highways. Proceedings under this section shall not cause the
road to become a county highway.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.