BILL NUMBER: AB 1814	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2016

   An act to amend Section 220 of the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to state highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1814, as introduced, 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.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
   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 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
 which   that  are reasonably economical
and  which   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  such   these  safety roadside
rests, together with the facilities therein, will differ according to
location and potential use.  Such  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.  Such
  The  safety roadside rests shall not contain
camping or recreational facilities. 
   The 
    (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.