California Government Code

§ 8879.63

GOV § 8879.63 Effective Aug 24, 2007Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 12.491 · Art. 8

Statute text

(a)Prior to allocating funds appropriated from the Highway-Railroad Crossing Safety Account established pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 8879.23, the commission, in cooperation with the Public Utilities Commission, the department, and the High-Speed Rail Authority, shall adopt guidelines to establish the criteria and process to allocate funds to an eligible project in the program. The guidelines shall be adopted no later than February 15, 2008, and only after the commission holds a public hearing in northern California and a public hearing in southern California to review and to receive public comment on the proposed guidelines. The commission may incorporate the hearings on the proposed guidelines into its regularly scheduled hearings.

(b)Funds available under this section shall be used to provide the state match for local, federal, or private funds for high-priority grade separation and railroad crossing safety improvements in California. The commission shall adopt strategies to invest these funds in a manner to make railroad crossing safety improvements at any of the following:

(1)Crossings where freight rail and passenger rail share the affected guideway.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 181, Sec. 1. Effective August 24, 2007.