DIVISION 1. STATE HIGHWAYS 50-897›CHAPTER 3. The Care and Protection of State Highways 660-759.3›ARTICLE 3. Nuisance and Penal Provisions 720-734

§ 724

California Streets and Highways Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

Unless the encroachment is authorized under Article 2 (commencing with Section 670), any person owning, controlling, or placing, or causing or suffering to exist, any encroachment within any state highway after the service upon that person of the notice, in the manner provided in Section 720, is, in addition to any civil liability therefor, guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 142, Sec. 158.)

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