Chapter 4. Accounting, Reports And Audits of California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 4.

All amounts paid to each county, out of the Highway Users Tax Fund shall be deposited in its road fund. The board may deposit in said fund any other money available for roads. All money received by a county from the Highway Users Tax Fund and all money deposited by a county in its road fund shall be expended by the county exclusively for county roads for the purposes specified in Section 2101 or for other public street and highway purposes as provided by law. The amounts paid to a county for snow removal on county roads and for heavy rainfall and storm damage on county roads, pursuant to Section 2110, shall be kept in separate accounts in its road fund and shall be used solely for the purpose for which apportioned.

On or before the first day of October of each year, the governing body of each county and city shall cause to be made and filed with the Controller a complete report of the expenditures for street or road purposes during the preceding fiscal year ending on the 30th day of June. However, the City of El Segundo, the City of Huntington Beach, the City of Inglewood, the City of Long Beach, or the City of South Lake Tahoe may send, on a one-time basis, a written notice to the Controller that it has selected a fiscal year ending on a date other than June 30, and, in that case, the fiscal year selected by the city shall be its fiscal year for reports under this section. The Controller shall prescribe the form and contents of the report. The report shall show the amount expended for construction by contract, maintenance by contract, construction by day labor, and maintenance by day labor. For construction and maintenance by day labor, the amount shall include the cost of material, labor, equipment, and overhead for work performed thereunder. The board of supervisors of each county shall by appropriate action, at any regular or special meeting, designate either the county road commissioner or the county auditor as the person responsible for making and signing the report required by this section. When the road commissioner is designated to make and sign the report, the county auditor shall certify the report before it is filed with the Controller. When the county auditor is designated to make and sign the report, the road commissioner shall certify the report before it is filed with the Controller. Reports made by each city shall be certified by the city's fiscal officer.

The report shall contain the following:
  (a) A detailed statement of all money available from all sources during the fiscal year covered by the report, including money made available by the United States, the state, the county or city, any other governmental agency, and money available from bond issues, special assessments, or from any other source whatever for expenditure for street or road purposes.
  (b) A detailed statement of all expenditures during the fiscal year covered by the report for street or road purposes, including obligations incurred but not yet paid. The statement shall be broken down into expenditure categories,, including, but not limited to, expenditures for rights-of-way or other property, new construction, reconstruction, widening, resurfacing, maintenance, repair, and acquisition and maintenance of equipment. The State Controller, with the advice of the department, may prescribe any other expenditure categories and may require any detail that may be deemed necessary by him or her fully to disclose the nature and extent of all financial transactions by the county or city relating to streets or roads.
  (c) A detailed statement of all expenditures during the fiscal year covered by the report for snow removal or snow grooming, or both, including expenditures of money apportioned pursuant to Section 2107 or 2110. The statement shall include equipment costs in connection with snow removal or snow grooming, or both, on an hourly rental basis or on any other annual basis that the State Controller may require.
  (d) In addition, the county shall compute its reimbursable snow removal costs. The reimbursable snow removal or snow grooming, or both, costs shall be in an amount equal to 80 percent of the expenditures described in subdivision (c) that are in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000).
  (e) For purposes of this section, "snow grooming" is a method whereby snow is packed down into a hard surface in order to facilitate transportation by snowmobiles or other vehicles modified or accustomed to traveling on packed snow or ice, or both.

The State Controller shall take such steps as he may deem necessary to insure that such reports are adequate and accurate.

The Controller shall annually tabulate and compile all such reports received by him or her and shall distribute copies of that tabulation and compilation to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Members of the Legislature, the department, the State Auditor, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, the cities, and the counties and to any legislative committee charged with the investigation of streets, roads, highways, or bridges in this state.

No state money shall be allocated to or made available for expenditure by any county or city at any time when such county or city is delinquent in filing the report provided for in Section 2151.

The Departmental Transportation Advisory Committee is hereby abolished and the department shall succeed to all of its duties and responsibilities.