California Streets and Highways Code

§ 188.6

SHC § 188.6 Effective Jan 1, 2007Div. 1 · Ch. 1 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)(1) The Legislature finds and declares that on August 16, 2004, the department reported to the Legislature that the funds identified in Section 188.5 are insufficient to complete the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program, including the replacement of the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, due to cost overruns for the program now estimated at three billion six hundred million dollars ($3,600,000,000).

(2)By enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature to identify additional funds from various sources, as described in subdivision (b), in order to fund this shortfall and so that the toll bridge seismic retrofit and replacement program, as described in Section 188.5, as that section read on January 1, 2005, may proceed to completion without further costly delay.

(b)The following amounts from the following funds shall be allocated until expended in order to eliminate the shortfall identified in subdivision (a) and to complete the seismic retrofit or replacement of state-owned toll bridges as expeditiously as possible:

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Legislative history

Amended (as added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 375) by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 639. Effective January 1, 2007.