Article 10. Local Cooperation of California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 17. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 10.

Any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the state, upon the request of the department or of the commission, may advance or contribute money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, and other property toward the expense of building, acquiring, and maintaining the toll bridge or other highway crossing, and the transportation facilities thereof and thereto referred to in this chapter, and for preliminary surveys and the preparation of plans and estimates of cost thereof and other preliminary expenses. Appropriations for such purposes may be made from any funds available, including highway funds received from the state.

Any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the State may issue general obligation bonds for any of the purposes enumerated in this article. All proceedings for the authorization, issue, and sale of such bonds shall be had under the law governing the issue and sale of bonds for public improvements by the particular political subdivision or public corporation.

Money or property advanced or contributed pursuant to this article may be immediately transferred or delivered to the department or to the commission to be used for the purpose for which the advance or contribution was made.

The commission may enter into a binding agreement with any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the state to repay any money or the value of any rights-of-way, labor, materials, or other property advanced or contributed toward the expense of acquiring or constructing any toll bridge or other highway crossing, or the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, acquired or constructed pursuant to this chapter, but no repayment therefor shall be made until all obligations issued by the commission for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing, and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, have been fully redeemed and paid, and then only out of the tolls and revenues received from the operation of the toll bridge or other highway crossing.

The collection of tolls shall be continued on any particular toll bridge or other highway crossing until all bonds issued pursuant to this chapter for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing or the transportation facilities thereof or thereto are fully redeemed and paid.

After all bonds issued pursuant to this chapter for the acquisition or construction of any toll bridge or other highway crossing and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto have been fully redeemed and paid, the commission may continue to collect tolls and other revenues for the use of the toll bridge or other highway crossing for the purpose of reimbursing the state for any expenditures which have been made by it in connection with the toll bridge or other highway crossing, and the transportation facilities thereof or thereto, and for the purpose of repayment to any city, county, district, or political subdivision of the state of any amount the commission has agreed to repay for money, rights-of-way, labor, materials, or other property advanced or contributed for the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other highway crossing or transportation facilities thereof or thereto.

Any city, county, incorporated bridge and highway district, or joint highway district may, by proper resolution of its governing body, petition the commission requesting the commission to authorize the acquisition or construction of any toll bridge or other toll highway crossing across any waters, bays, arms of bays, rivers, or streams wholly within, or bordering upon, or wholly without the limits of any such political subdivision or public corporation. If the commission refuses to authorize the acquisition or construction of the proposed toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, or if the commission does not within three years from the receipt of the petition authorize the acquisition or construction of the toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, the city, county, bridge and highway district, or joint highway district, either singly or in conjunction with other cities, counties, bridge and highway districts, or joint highway districts, may acquire or construct the toll bridge or other toll highway crossing, subject to the limitations of Article 7 (commencing with Section 30350).