27160. The district shall have perpetual succession and acting
through the board shall have the powers prescribed in this chapter in
addition to any others expressly conferred on it by this chapter.
27161. The district may sue and be sued in its corporate name in
all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent
jurisdiction.
27162. The district may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
27163. The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or
lease, or otherwise acquire, and hold, use, and enjoy, real and
personal property of every kind within or without the district
necessary for the full or convenient exercise of its powers. The
board may lease, mortgage, sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or
personal property within or without the district when, in its
judgment, it is for the best interests of the district so to do.
27164. The district may acquire, or contract to acquire, and may
construct under contract, or by its own employees, maintain, improve,
and operate bridges, abutments, rights-of-way, roads, tunnels,
railroads, streetcar lines, interurban lines, telephone and telegraph
lines, footpaths, viaducts, tollgates, tollhouses, subways, and all
other forms of property necessary or proper for the successful
prosecution of the project for which the district was organized, or
which may be authorized by the board of directors of the district
under its powers, including all machinery or other property useful or
necessary to construct, maintain, operate, or otherwise make use of
toll bridges and highways, and complete, add to, repair, or otherwise
improve, any of the property acquired by it.
27165. The district may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation,
or lease from the United States, this State, or from any person, or
public or private corporation, lands, rights of way, or rights in,
over or across lands or waters which are necessary or proper for the
construction or operation of bridges, and the approaches thereto, fix
and collect tolls, for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the
district and repaying the same, and dispose of the surplus to the
various counties within the district.
27166. The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to
take any property necessary to the exercise of the powers granted in
this part, or in any provision of law, to the district.
27167. The district may borrow money, incur indebtedness and issue
bonds or other evidences of such indebtedness; and refund or retire
any indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any
of its property.
27168. The district may purchase or condemn any works which might
be constructed by the district, whether completed or partly
completed, and conduct and manage the same.
27169. The district may have taxes levied and collected in
accordance with the provisions of this part for the purpose of paying
running expenses, organization expenses and the investigation
expenses of the district before the issuance of bonds, and for the
purpose of paying the obligations of the district.
27170. The district may make contracts, employ labor, and all kinds
of employees, whether skilled or unskilled, for the purpose of
carrying on the business of the district.
27171. The district may establish all necessary rules, regulation
or conditions under which the property of the district may be used by
the public and fix and collect all tolls for the use thereof, and
enter into contracts with any persons or public officers or public or
private corporations, whereby the facilities constructed by the
district may be made use of, by such persons, officers, or
corporations, and at the tolls or for the consideration fixed by such
contracts.
27172. The district may do all things necessary for the complete
exercise of the powers described in this chapter.
27173. The work of constructing, repairing, relocating, or
otherwise providing any of the highways or approaches composed of the
structures or improvements mentioned in Part 3 (commencing with
Section 27000) of Division 15 of this code or Article 60 (commencing
with Section 20910) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the
Public Contract Code, may be done by any district in cooperation with
a city, county, joint highway district, or other district formed for
the improvement or building of roads, or in cooperation with the
state.
For the purpose of doing work or acquiring rights-of-way therefor,
the board may authorize a contract to be entered into between the
district and the political subdivision or agency of the state with
which it proposes to cooperate, and full power and authority is
granted to the city, county, joint highway, or other district, or the
Department of Transportation, to enter into the contracts for
cooperative work, construction, or purchase of rights-of-way, in such
a manner and upon such apportionment of the cost thereof as may be
agreed upon between them. For this purpose, the contracting parties
may designate engineers, county surveyors, or other necessary
officials or employees to take charge of the particular work, and
provide for the payment of the cost of the work out of funds
contributed by the contracting parties. The plans and specifications
for the work shall be approved by both of the contracting parties,
and the work may be carried out by either one of the contracting
parties as the agent of the other, or it may be carried out under the
joint management of both of the contracting parties.
Any project undertaken by a district alone, or in cooperation with
any of the agencies mentioned, may be accomplished by federal aid
under rules which may be prescribed by the federal agencies involved.
Any work may extend across, through, or within any city, county,
joint highway district, or other district, if the work is an
extension of an approach to a bridge operated by the district and
connects the bridge as a main or alternate route with state highways
or other through routes leading to or from the bridge.
27173.8. Every purchase or contract made in violation of the
competitive bidding requirements of this part shall be void.
27174. The district may contract with the State for the
construction, repair or relocation of highways or approaches to any
structure or improvement maintained or operated by it and may collect
tolls for the use of such structure or improvement to pay any
obligation to the State, incurred under the contract.
27174.1. (a) The district may adopt rules and regulations not
inconsistent with the Vehicle Code for the control of traffic on any
facility of travel constructed by the district, to aid and ensure the
safe and orderly flow of traffic, and shall, so far as practicable,
notify the public of those rules and regulations by signs on the
facility of travel. The district may also adopt rules and regulations
pertaining to parking areas in conjunction with any facilities of
travel constructed or maintained by the district. The district may
also adopt rules and regulations governing the use of all modes of
transportation owned, operated, or maintained by the district.
(b) The district may enforce any rule, regulation, or ordinance
adopted by the board of directors of the district pursuant to this
section or subdivision (a) of Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code and
relating to stopping or parking of vehicles by the issuance of
notices of parking violation and notices of delinquent parking
violation in the manner prescribed by Article 3 (commencing with
Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.
Notices of parking violation and notices of delinquent parking
violation may be issued by those employees of the district authorized
by rule, regulation, or ordinance of the district.
(c) The district may enforce any rule, regulation, or ordinance
relating to toll evasion adopted by the board of directors of the
district pursuant to this section or subdivision (a) of Section 40250
of the Vehicle Code by the issuance of notices of toll evasion
violation and notices of delinquent toll evasion in the manner
prescribed by Article 4 (commencing with Section 40250) of Chapter 1
of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.
27174.2. (a) Every person who, without permission of the board or
its authorized officers or agents, climbs upon any railing, cable,
suspender rope, tower, or superstructure of any district toll bridge,
or otherwise trespasses on any portion of the bridge that is not
intended for public use, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that
imprisonment and fine.
(b) Every person who trespasses on district property other than
that referred to in subdivision (a) is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) If the court grants probation to any person punished under
subdivision (a), in addition to any other terms or conditions imposed
by the court, the court shall impose as a condition of that
probation that the person perform not less than 40 hours and not more
than 160 hours of community service in the county in which the
violation occurred. To the extent practicable, the service shall
involve work in homeless shelters, programs designed for the care of
drug abuse, and hospices. The service shall be performed during a
time that does not interfere with the person's school attendance or
employment.
(d) Any person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this
section shall reimburse the bridge district for costs resulting from
the violation. The court shall consider the costs to the bridge
district and shall prorate the defendant's share of the costs based
on the defendant's responsibility for the acts and in accordance with
the defendant's ability to pay, as the court deems appropriate in
the interest of justice.
(e) This section does not apply to persons engaged in the
operation, maintenance, or repair of a bridge.
27174.3. Every person who stands in the roadway or on the sidewalk
of any district toll bridge, or the approaches thereto, for the
purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
27175. The district shall cause to be published and made available
to the public at the toll gates of any facilities of travel
constructed by the district, copies of those traffic laws and rules
and regulations particularly applicable thereto.
27176. Violation of any rules or regulations provided for in
Section 27174.1, notice of which has been given by a sign on the
facility of travel constructed by the district is a misdemeanor.
27177. The California Highway Patrol shall have the authority and
it shall be its duty to provide for proper and adequate policing of
all facilities of travel constructed by the district, to insure the
enforcement thereon of the Vehicle Code and of any other law relating
to the use and operation of vehicles upon highways or vehicular
crossings as defined in the Vehicle Code, and of the rules and
regulations adopted by the board of directors of the district in
respect to facilities of travel and parking areas, and to cooperate
with the district, to the end that such facilities of travel and
parking areas be operated at all times in such manner as to carry
traffic efficiently. This authority of the California Highway Patrol
is exclusive except as to the authority conferred upon the district
by Section 27174.1 in respect to those facilities of travel or
parking areas.
All required accident reports and supplemental reports, and all
other reports made to the California Highway Patrol by any peace
officer, member of the California Highway Patrol, or other employees
of the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol
relative to accidents and incidents occurring on property of a bridge
and highway district shall be immediately available for the
confidential use of the district.
27177.5. A towing service may be maintained by a bridge and highway
district on each vehicular crossing under its jurisdiction, and said
district may furnish such towing and emergency road service as is
necessary to permit the orderly flow of traffic upon such crossing
and upon district property. The district may prescribe and collect
reasonable rates for towing and other services furnished. When any
vehicle or object on any vehicular crossing or road under district
jurisdiction or upon district property upon which towing service is
maintained is stopped for any reason and such vehicle or object is
obstructing or may obstruct traffic, the district shall order that
such vehicle or object be towed by the towing service either to the
nearest property of the bridge and highway district designated for
the parking or storing of vehicles, or to a suitable parking location
on a public street or highway and thereupon left in the custody of
the owner or operator of such vehicle or object, or his agent, or, in
the event no such owner, operator, or agent is present, or if such
owner, operator, or agent so requests, to a public garage or
off-street parking facility. The district may prescribe the limits
within which the towing service authorized herein shall be operated.
The district may furnish and deliver fuel to vehicles, the supply of
which is exhausted, or change tires, and may charge a reasonable sum
for the services and materials furnished. If the district deems it
safe and advisable and the owner or operator of such vehicle or
object so requests, it may be towed from the vehicular crossing as
herein provided.
The towing service maintained by a district pursuant to this
section shall be the only towing service authorized to render service
to or remove vehicles or objects which become disabled upon
vehicular crossings or property under the jurisdiction of the
district.
27178. Within the district, the Department of Transportation may
restrict any portion of a state highway to a particular mode of
vehicular transportation during such hours as the department, upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, determines
such restriction would expedite the flow of traffic.
27179. A bridge and highway district may contract with the State to
furnish regular highway patrol officers to serve for 24-hour police
or patrol duty on the bridge and its approaches. The cost of such
services shall be a legal expense for operation of the district.
27160. The district shall have perpetual succession and acting
through the board shall have the powers prescribed in this chapter in
addition to any others expressly conferred on it by this chapter.
27161. The district may sue and be sued in its corporate name in
all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent
jurisdiction.
27162. The district may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
27163. The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or
lease, or otherwise acquire, and hold, use, and enjoy, real and
personal property of every kind within or without the district
necessary for the full or convenient exercise of its powers. The
board may lease, mortgage, sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or
personal property within or without the district when, in its
judgment, it is for the best interests of the district so to do.
27164. The district may acquire, or contract to acquire, and may
construct under contract, or by its own employees, maintain, improve,
and operate bridges, abutments, rights-of-way, roads, tunnels,
railroads, streetcar lines, interurban lines, telephone and telegraph
lines, footpaths, viaducts, tollgates, tollhouses, subways, and all
other forms of property necessary or proper for the successful
prosecution of the project for which the district was organized, or
which may be authorized by the board of directors of the district
under its powers, including all machinery or other property useful or
necessary to construct, maintain, operate, or otherwise make use of
toll bridges and highways, and complete, add to, repair, or otherwise
improve, any of the property acquired by it.
27165. The district may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation,
or lease from the United States, this State, or from any person, or
public or private corporation, lands, rights of way, or rights in,
over or across lands or waters which are necessary or proper for the
construction or operation of bridges, and the approaches thereto, fix
and collect tolls, for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the
district and repaying the same, and dispose of the surplus to the
various counties within the district.
27166. The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to
take any property necessary to the exercise of the powers granted in
this part, or in any provision of law, to the district.
27167. The district may borrow money, incur indebtedness and issue
bonds or other evidences of such indebtedness; and refund or retire
any indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any
of its property.
27168. The district may purchase or condemn any works which might
be constructed by the district, whether completed or partly
completed, and conduct and manage the same.
27169. The district may have taxes levied and collected in
accordance with the provisions of this part for the purpose of paying
running expenses, organization expenses and the investigation
expenses of the district before the issuance of bonds, and for the
purpose of paying the obligations of the district.
27170. The district may make contracts, employ labor, and all kinds
of employees, whether skilled or unskilled, for the purpose of
carrying on the business of the district.
27171. The district may establish all necessary rules, regulation
or conditions under which the property of the district may be used by
the public and fix and collect all tolls for the use thereof, and
enter into contracts with any persons or public officers or public or
private corporations, whereby the facilities constructed by the
district may be made use of, by such persons, officers, or
corporations, and at the tolls or for the consideration fixed by such
contracts.
27172. The district may do all things necessary for the complete
exercise of the powers described in this chapter.
27173. The work of constructing, repairing, relocating, or
otherwise providing any of the highways or approaches composed of the
structures or improvements mentioned in Part 3 (commencing with
Section 27000) of Division 15 of this code or Article 60 (commencing
with Section 20910) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the
Public Contract Code, may be done by any district in cooperation with
a city, county, joint highway district, or other district formed for
the improvement or building of roads, or in cooperation with the
state.
For the purpose of doing work or acquiring rights-of-way therefor,
the board may authorize a contract to be entered into between the
district and the political subdivision or agency of the state with
which it proposes to cooperate, and full power and authority is
granted to the city, county, joint highway, or other district, or the
Department of Transportation, to enter into the contracts for
cooperative work, construction, or purchase of rights-of-way, in such
a manner and upon such apportionment of the cost thereof as may be
agreed upon between them. For this purpose, the contracting parties
may designate engineers, county surveyors, or other necessary
officials or employees to take charge of the particular work, and
provide for the payment of the cost of the work out of funds
contributed by the contracting parties. The plans and specifications
for the work shall be approved by both of the contracting parties,
and the work may be carried out by either one of the contracting
parties as the agent of the other, or it may be carried out under the
joint management of both of the contracting parties.
Any project undertaken by a district alone, or in cooperation with
any of the agencies mentioned, may be accomplished by federal aid
under rules which may be prescribed by the federal agencies involved.
Any work may extend across, through, or within any city, county,
joint highway district, or other district, if the work is an
extension of an approach to a bridge operated by the district and
connects the bridge as a main or alternate route with state highways
or other through routes leading to or from the bridge.
27173.8. Every purchase or contract made in violation of the
competitive bidding requirements of this part shall be void.
27174. The district may contract with the State for the
construction, repair or relocation of highways or approaches to any
structure or improvement maintained or operated by it and may collect
tolls for the use of such structure or improvement to pay any
obligation to the State, incurred under the contract.
27174.1. (a) The district may adopt rules and regulations not
inconsistent with the Vehicle Code for the control of traffic on any
facility of travel constructed by the district, to aid and ensure the
safe and orderly flow of traffic, and shall, so far as practicable,
notify the public of those rules and regulations by signs on the
facility of travel. The district may also adopt rules and regulations
pertaining to parking areas in conjunction with any facilities of
travel constructed or maintained by the district. The district may
also adopt rules and regulations governing the use of all modes of
transportation owned, operated, or maintained by the district.
(b) The district may enforce any rule, regulation, or ordinance
adopted by the board of directors of the district pursuant to this
section or subdivision (a) of Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code and
relating to stopping or parking of vehicles by the issuance of
notices of parking violation and notices of delinquent parking
violation in the manner prescribed by Article 3 (commencing with
Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.
Notices of parking violation and notices of delinquent parking
violation may be issued by those employees of the district authorized
by rule, regulation, or ordinance of the district.
(c) The district may enforce any rule, regulation, or ordinance
relating to toll evasion adopted by the board of directors of the
district pursuant to this section or subdivision (a) of Section 40250
of the Vehicle Code by the issuance of notices of toll evasion
violation and notices of delinquent toll evasion in the manner
prescribed by Article 4 (commencing with Section 40250) of Chapter 1
of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.
27174.2. (a) Every person who, without permission of the board or
its authorized officers or agents, climbs upon any railing, cable,
suspender rope, tower, or superstructure of any district toll bridge,
or otherwise trespasses on any portion of the bridge that is not
intended for public use, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that
imprisonment and fine.
(b) Every person who trespasses on district property other than
that referred to in subdivision (a) is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) If the court grants probation to any person punished under
subdivision (a), in addition to any other terms or conditions imposed
by the court, the court shall impose as a condition of that
probation that the person perform not less than 40 hours and not more
than 160 hours of community service in the county in which the
violation occurred. To the extent practicable, the service shall
involve work in homeless shelters, programs designed for the care of
drug abuse, and hospices. The service shall be performed during a
time that does not interfere with the person's school attendance or
employment.
(d) Any person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this
section shall reimburse the bridge district for costs resulting from
the violation. The court shall consider the costs to the bridge
district and shall prorate the defendant's share of the costs based
on the defendant's responsibility for the acts and in accordance with
the defendant's ability to pay, as the court deems appropriate in
the interest of justice.
(e) This section does not apply to persons engaged in the
operation, maintenance, or repair of a bridge.
27174.3. Every person who stands in the roadway or on the sidewalk
of any district toll bridge, or the approaches thereto, for the
purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
27175. The district shall cause to be published and made available
to the public at the toll gates of any facilities of travel
constructed by the district, copies of those traffic laws and rules
and regulations particularly applicable thereto.
27176. Violation of any rules or regulations provided for in
Section 27174.1, notice of which has been given by a sign on the
facility of travel constructed by the district is a misdemeanor.
27177. The California Highway Patrol shall have the authority and
it shall be its duty to provide for proper and adequate policing of
all facilities of travel constructed by the district, to insure the
enforcement thereon of the Vehicle Code and of any other law relating
to the use and operation of vehicles upon highways or vehicular
crossings as defined in the Vehicle Code, and of the rules and
regulations adopted by the board of directors of the district in
respect to facilities of travel and parking areas, and to cooperate
with the district, to the end that such facilities of travel and
parking areas be operated at all times in such manner as to carry
traffic efficiently. This authority of the California Highway Patrol
is exclusive except as to the authority conferred upon the district
by Section 27174.1 in respect to those facilities of travel or
parking areas.
All required accident reports and supplemental reports, and all
other reports made to the California Highway Patrol by any peace
officer, member of the California Highway Patrol, or other employees
of the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol
relative to accidents and incidents occurring on property of a bridge
and highway district shall be immediately available for the
confidential use of the district.
27177.5. A towing service may be maintained by a bridge and highway
district on each vehicular crossing under its jurisdiction, and said
district may furnish such towing and emergency road service as is
necessary to permit the orderly flow of traffic upon such crossing
and upon district property. The district may prescribe and collect
reasonable rates for towing and other services furnished. When any
vehicle or object on any vehicular crossing or road under district
jurisdiction or upon district property upon which towing service is
maintained is stopped for any reason and such vehicle or object is
obstructing or may obstruct traffic, the district shall order that
such vehicle or object be towed by the towing service either to the
nearest property of the bridge and highway district designated for
the parking or storing of vehicles, or to a suitable parking location
on a public street or highway and thereupon left in the custody of
the owner or operator of such vehicle or object, or his agent, or, in
the event no such owner, operator, or agent is present, or if such
owner, operator, or agent so requests, to a public garage or
off-street parking facility. The district may prescribe the limits
within which the towing service authorized herein shall be operated.
The district may furnish and deliver fuel to vehicles, the supply of
which is exhausted, or change tires, and may charge a reasonable sum
for the services and materials furnished. If the district deems it
safe and advisable and the owner or operator of such vehicle or
object so requests, it may be towed from the vehicular crossing as
herein provided.
The towing service maintained by a district pursuant to this
section shall be the only towing service authorized to render service
to or remove vehicles or objects which become disabled upon
vehicular crossings or property under the jurisdiction of the
district.
27178. Within the district, the Department of Transportation may
restrict any portion of a state highway to a particular mode of
vehicular transportation during such hours as the department, upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, determines
such restriction would expedite the flow of traffic.
27179. A bridge and highway district may contract with the State to
furnish regular highway patrol officers to serve for 24-hour police
or patrol duty on the bridge and its approaches. The cost of such
services shall be a legal expense for operation of the district.
27160. The district shall have perpetual succession and acting
through the board shall have the powers prescribed in this chapter in
addition to any others expressly conferred on it by this chapter.
27161. The district may sue and be sued in its corporate name in
all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent
jurisdiction.
27162. The district may adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
27163. The district may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or
lease, or otherwise acquire, and hold, use, and enjoy, real and
personal property of every kind within or without the district
necessary for the full or convenient exercise of its powers. The
board may lease, mortgage, sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or
personal property within or without the district when, in its
judgment, it is for the best interests of the district so to do.
27164. The district may acquire, or contract to acquire, and may
construct under contract, or by its own employees, maintain, improve,
and operate bridges, abutments, rights-of-way, roads, tunnels,
railroads, streetcar lines, interurban lines, telephone and telegraph
lines, footpaths, viaducts, tollgates, tollhouses, subways, and all
other forms of property necessary or proper for the successful
prosecution of the project for which the district was organized, or
which may be authorized by the board of directors of the district
under its powers, including all machinery or other property useful or
necessary to construct, maintain, operate, or otherwise make use of
toll bridges and highways, and complete, add to, repair, or otherwise
improve, any of the property acquired by it.
27165. The district may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation,
or lease from the United States, this State, or from any person, or
public or private corporation, lands, rights of way, or rights in,
over or across lands or waters which are necessary or proper for the
construction or operation of bridges, and the approaches thereto, fix
and collect tolls, for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the
district and repaying the same, and dispose of the surplus to the
various counties within the district.
27166. The district may exercise the right of eminent domain to
take any property necessary to the exercise of the powers granted in
this part, or in any provision of law, to the district.
27167. The district may borrow money, incur indebtedness and issue
bonds or other evidences of such indebtedness; and refund or retire
any indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any
of its property.
27168. The district may purchase or condemn any works which might
be constructed by the district, whether completed or partly
completed, and conduct and manage the same.
27169. The district may have taxes levied and collected in
accordance with the provisions of this part for the purpose of paying
running expenses, organization expenses and the investigation
expenses of the district before the issuance of bonds, and for the
purpose of paying the obligations of the district.
27170. The district may make contracts, employ labor, and all kinds
of employees, whether skilled or unskilled, for the purpose of
carrying on the business of the district.
27171. The district may establish all necessary rules, regulation
or conditions under which the property of the district may be used by
the public and fix and collect all tolls for the use thereof, and
enter into contracts with any persons or public officers or public or
private corporations, whereby the facilities constructed by the
district may be made use of, by such persons, officers, or
corporations, and at the tolls or for the consideration fixed by such
contracts.
27172. The district may do all things necessary for the complete
exercise of the powers described in this chapter.
27173. The work of constructing, repairing, relocating, or
otherwise providing any of the highways or approaches composed of the
structures or improvements mentioned in Part 3 (commencing with
Section 27000) of Division 15 of this code or Article 60 (commencing
with Section 20910) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the
Public Contract Code, may be done by any district in cooperation with
a city, county, joint highway district, or other district formed for
the improvement or building of roads, or in cooperation with the
state.
For the purpose of doing work or acquiring rights-of-way therefor,
the board may authorize a contract to be entered into between the
district and the political subdivision or agency of the state with
which it proposes to cooperate, and full power and authority is
granted to the city, county, joint highway, or other district, or the
Department of Transportation, to enter into the contracts for
cooperative work, construction, or purchase of rights-of-way, in such
a manner and upon such apportionment of the cost thereof as may be
agreed upon between them. For this purpose, the contracting parties
may designate engineers, county surveyors, or other necessary
officials or employees to take charge of the particular work, and
provide for the payment of the cost of the work out of funds
contributed by the contracting parties. The plans and specifications
for the work shall be approved by both of the contracting parties,
and the work may be carried out by either one of the contracting
parties as the agent of the other, or it may be carried out under the
joint management of both of the contracting parties.
Any project undertaken by a district alone, or in cooperation with
any of the agencies mentioned, may be accomplished by federal aid
under rules which may be prescribed by the federal agencies involved.
Any work may extend across, through, or within any city, county,
joint highway district, or other district, if the work is an
extension of an approach to a bridge operated by the district and
connects the bridge as a main or alternate route with state highways
or other through routes leading to or from the bridge.
27173.8. Every purchase or contract made in violation of the
competitive bidding requirements of this part shall be void.
27174. The district may contract with the State for the
construction, repair or relocation of highways or approaches to any
structure or improvement maintained or operated by it and may collect
tolls for the use of such structure or improvement to pay any
obligation to the State, incurred under the contract.
27174.1. (a) The district may adopt rules and regulations not
inconsistent with the Vehicle Code for the control of traffic on any
facility of travel constructed by the district, to aid and ensure the
safe and orderly flow of traffic, and shall, so far as practicable,
notify the public of those rules and regulations by signs on the
facility of travel. The district may also adopt rules and regulations
pertaining to parking areas in conjunction with any facilities of
travel constructed or maintained by the district. The district may
also adopt rules and regulations governing the use of all modes of
transportation owned, operated, or maintained by the district.
(b) The district may enforce any rule, regulation, or ordinance
adopted by the board of directors of the district pursuant to this
section or subdivision (a) of Section 21113 of the Vehicle Code and
relating to stopping or parking of vehicles by the issuance of
notices of parking violation and notices of delinquent parking
violation in the manner prescribed by Article 3 (commencing with
Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.
Notices of parking violation and notices of delinquent parking
violation may be issued by those employees of the district authorized
by rule, regulation, or ordinance of the district.
(c) The district may enforce any rule, regulation, or ordinance
relating to toll evasion adopted by the board of directors of the
district pursuant to this section or subdivision (a) of Section 40250
of the Vehicle Code by the issuance of notices of toll evasion
violation and notices of delinquent toll evasion in the manner
prescribed by Article 4 (commencing with Section 40250) of Chapter 1
of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.
27174.2. (a) Every person who, without permission of the board or
its authorized officers or agents, climbs upon any railing, cable,
suspender rope, tower, or superstructure of any district toll bridge,
or otherwise trespasses on any portion of the bridge that is not
intended for public use, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that
imprisonment and fine.
(b) Every person who trespasses on district property other than
that referred to in subdivision (a) is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) If the court grants probation to any person punished under
subdivision (a), in addition to any other terms or conditions imposed
by the court, the court shall impose as a condition of that
probation that the person perform not less than 40 hours and not more
than 160 hours of community service in the county in which the
violation occurred. To the extent practicable, the service shall
involve work in homeless shelters, programs designed for the care of
drug abuse, and hospices. The service shall be performed during a
time that does not interfere with the person's school attendance or
employment.
(d) Any person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a) of this
section shall reimburse the bridge district for costs resulting from
the violation. The court shall consider the costs to the bridge
district and shall prorate the defendant's share of the costs based
on the defendant's responsibility for the acts and in accordance with
the defendant's ability to pay, as the court deems appropriate in
the interest of justice.
(e) This section does not apply to persons engaged in the
operation, maintenance, or repair of a bridge.
27174.3. Every person who stands in the roadway or on the sidewalk
of any district toll bridge, or the approaches thereto, for the
purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
27175. The district shall cause to be published and made available
to the public at the toll gates of any facilities of travel
constructed by the district, copies of those traffic laws and rules
and regulations particularly applicable thereto.
27176. Violation of any rules or regulations provided for in
Section 27174.1, notice of which has been given by a sign on the
facility of travel constructed by the district is a misdemeanor.
27177. The California Highway Patrol shall have the authority and
it shall be its duty to provide for proper and adequate policing of
all facilities of travel constructed by the district, to insure the
enforcement thereon of the Vehicle Code and of any other law relating
to the use and operation of vehicles upon highways or vehicular
crossings as defined in the Vehicle Code, and of the rules and
regulations adopted by the board of directors of the district in
respect to facilities of travel and parking areas, and to cooperate
with the district, to the end that such facilities of travel and
parking areas be operated at all times in such manner as to carry
traffic efficiently. This authority of the California Highway Patrol
is exclusive except as to the authority conferred upon the district
by Section 27174.1 in respect to those facilities of travel or
parking areas.
All required accident reports and supplemental reports, and all
other reports made to the California Highway Patrol by any peace
officer, member of the California Highway Patrol, or other employees
of the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol
relative to accidents and incidents occurring on property of a bridge
and highway district shall be immediately available for the
confidential use of the district.
27177.5. A towing service may be maintained by a bridge and highway
district on each vehicular crossing under its jurisdiction, and said
district may furnish such towing and emergency road service as is
necessary to permit the orderly flow of traffic upon such crossing
and upon district property. The district may prescribe and collect
reasonable rates for towing and other services furnished. When any
vehicle or object on any vehicular crossing or road under district
jurisdiction or upon district property upon which towing service is
maintained is stopped for any reason and such vehicle or object is
obstructing or may obstruct traffic, the district shall order that
such vehicle or object be towed by the towing service either to the
nearest property of the bridge and highway district designated for
the parking or storing of vehicles, or to a suitable parking location
on a public street or highway and thereupon left in the custody of
the owner or operator of such vehicle or object, or his agent, or, in
the event no such owner, operator, or agent is present, or if such
owner, operator, or agent so requests, to a public garage or
off-street parking facility. The district may prescribe the limits
within which the towing service authorized herein shall be operated.
The district may furnish and deliver fuel to vehicles, the supply of
which is exhausted, or change tires, and may charge a reasonable sum
for the services and materials furnished. If the district deems it
safe and advisable and the owner or operator of such vehicle or
object so requests, it may be towed from the vehicular crossing as
herein provided.
The towing service maintained by a district pursuant to this
section shall be the only towing service authorized to render service
to or remove vehicles or objects which become disabled upon
vehicular crossings or property under the jurisdiction of the
district.
27178. Within the district, the Department of Transportation may
restrict any portion of a state highway to a particular mode of
vehicular transportation during such hours as the department, upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, determines
such restriction would expedite the flow of traffic.
27179. A bridge and highway district may contract with the State to
furnish regular highway patrol officers to serve for 24-hour police
or patrol duty on the bridge and its approaches. The cost of such
services shall be a legal expense for operation of the district.
