(a) The board may order two or more divisions consolidated if the board finds that their boundaries are contiguous at any point or that a consolidated program of construction, improvement, or maintenance will reduce the costs of or increase the efficiency of providing highway construction, improvement, or maintenance.

(b) Property within a division proposed to be consolidated with another division and in which bonds are not outstanding for work performed pursuant to this article shall not be deemed to be property in the division for the purpose of Section 1184 as it applies to the consolidated division.

Terms Used In California Streets and Highways Code 1168.9

  • Construction: includes :

    California Streets and Highways Code 29

  • Division: means permanent road division. See California Streets and Highways Code 1160
  • Highway: means any county road or highway or any public roadway right of way or any private easement or roadway not accepted or acceptable into the county highway system but upon which a permanent public easement is offered or any privately owned road which meets the requirements of and in connection with which the necessary findings of Section 969. See California Streets and Highways Code 1160
  • maintenance: includes any of the following:

    California Streets and Highways Code 27

(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 578, Sec. 6. Effective August 26, 1986.)