This division does not apply to any emergency project undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public agency to maintain, repair, or restore an existing highway, as defined in Section 360 of the Vehicle Code, except for a highway designated as an official state scenic highway pursuant to Section 262 of the Streets and Highways Code, within the existing right-of-way of the highway, damaged as a result of fire, flood, storm, earthquake, land subsidence, gradual earth movement, or landslide, within one year of the damage. This section does not exempt from this division any project undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public agency to expand or widen a highway damaged by fire, flood, storm, earthquake, land subsidence, gradual earth movement, or landslide.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21080.33
General
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Joannou v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes (2013)
Most recently applied in Joannou v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes (September 2013)
Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 825, Sec. 6
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.