California Streets and Highways Code 881 – Contracts may be entered into between the department and the State …
Contracts may be entered into between the department and the State Park and Recreation Commission for those acquisitions and transfers specified in Section 880, which contracts shall provide for the payment into the State Highway Account of the entire cost of such acquisition from any appropriation made to the State Park and Recreation Commission for acquisition of beaches or parks.
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed a limitation on the authority granted to the department under any other provision of this code, or under other law, to acquire property for highway purposes, including beach and shore line property, and nothing in this chapter shall require the department or the California Transportation Commission to acquire for, or to transfer to, the State Park and Recreation Commission any property required for state highway purposes, or to acquire any property for state park system purposes, when, in the opinion of the California Transportation Commission, the acquisition of such property is not practicable or in the public interest.
Terms Used In California Streets and Highways Code 881
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Streets and Highways Code 22
- Department: means the Department of Transportation of this state. See California Streets and Highways Code 20
- highway: includes bridges, culverts, curbs, drains, and all works incidental to highway construction, improvement, and maintenance. See California Streets and Highways Code 23
- State highway: means any highway which is acquired, laid out, constructed, improved or maintained as a State highway pursuant to constitutional or legislative authorization. See California Streets and Highways Code 24
- State Highway Account: means the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. See California Streets and Highways Code 30
(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 777, Sec. 80.)