Article 4. Subways of California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 4.

For the purposes of this article, "subway" includes tube or tunnel.

Whenever in the interests of commerce, for the benefit of the residents of the county, or for the purpose of expediting travel between points on opposite sides of any navigable body of water, the board of supervisors of any county finds it advisable to construct for the public use any subway under any such navigable body of water, at a location determined upon by the board, the board shall call an election and submit to the electors of the county the question whether bonds of the county will be issued and sold for the purpose of constructing such a subway.

The order calling such an election shall be valid and effectual when signed by two-thirds of the members of the board. The election shall be held and the bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of law governing county bond elections and the issuance of county bonds.

The board of supervisors of any county may, for the purpose of ascertaining the probable expense of any proposed subway, expend out of the county general fund a sum not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars. When any such proposed subway reaches partly into one county and partly into another, such counties shall equally divide the expenditure necessary to ascertain the probable expense of any such proposed subway, but such expenditure shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars.

Whenever any such subway is proposed to be constructed under any navigable body of water forming the dividing line between counties, the boards of supervisors of each of the counties into which any such subway will reach shall first agree as to what portions of the expense of such subway will be paid by each county. Thereafter the board of each county may take the proceedings it considers proper under the provisions of this article.

Such a subway shall not be constructed under any navigable body of water forming the dividing line between counties, unless all the counties into which such subway reaches first authorize such work and also authorize the issue of bonds therefor in the manner provided in this article.

Whenever any such proposed subway will reach within the limits of any city, if the governing body of each such city and the board of supervisors of the county in which each such city is situated first so agree, the board of supervisors may call an election and submit to the electors of the county, in the manner provided in this article, the question whether bonds of the county will be issued and sold for the purpose of constructing such a subway in the manner prescribed in this article.