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Streets and Highways Code - SHC

DIVISION 1. STATE HIGHWAYS [50 - 897]

  ( Division 1 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 29. )
  

CHAPTER 8. Nonmotorized Transportation [885 - 894]

  ( Chapter 8 added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 517, Sec. 2. )
  

ARTICLE 2. Nonmotorized Transportation Facilities [887 - 888.8]
  ( Article 2 added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 517, Sec. 2. )

  
888.  

The department shall not construct a state highway as a freeway that will result in the severance or destruction of an existing major route for nonmotorized transportation traffic and light motorcycles, unless it provides a reasonable, safe, and convenient alternate route or such a route exists.

(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 517, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)