Madera County Municipal Code Ch. 10.24 Obstructions and Damage to County Highways

A. "County highway," as used in this chapter, means any roadway or public thoroughfare which is surveyed, engineered, designed or constructed by the county; surveyed, engineered, designed or constructed by others and dedicated to the county (whether such offer of dedication is accepted or not); and any roadway or public thoroughfare that is otherwise acquired by the county.

B. "County highway" includes the entire right-of-way of the county regardless of whether the entire right-of-way is actually used for purposes of public travel.

(Ord. 459-B § 1(part), 1990).

It is unlawful for any person, including the owner of any of the following described items, or the employer or any other person employing or otherwise directing the conduct of any other person, to do, direct, cause, order or permit to be done any of the following upon any county highway unless prior written authorization from the road commissioner is obtained:

A. Divert, drain, sprinkle or otherwise cause to allow water, silt, mud or debris to flow or seep onto, into or under any county highway;

B. Place, store or allow the accumulation of fertilizer, manure or any type of soil additive or supplement on any county highway;

C. Place or burn agricultural waste, clippings or prunings on any county highway;

D. Construct or install permanent or temporary fences on or across any county highway;

E. Place, store, throw, sweep, deposit or permit the escape of any debris, mud, manure, garbage, refuse, carcasses of dead animals, or nauseous or offensive matter, on or under any county highway;

F. Park or place any vehicle or any implement of agriculture or husbandry on any county highway which is likely to injure or create a risk of injury to any person, create a traffic hazard or impede maintenance of or travel on any county highway;

G. Disk, cultivate, level or ditch any county highway;

H. Plant any vineyard, orchard, field crop, or any ornamental flowers, trees or shrubbery on or across any county highway;

I. Keep or allow livestock on any county highway;

J. Place or store any material or commodity on any county highway, including but not limited to building material, beehives, pallets, hay, cotton bales or modules, garbage bins, agricultural gondolas, storage tanks, or the like;

K. Use any county highway for loading or unloading trucks, trailers or any other vehicle or any implement of agriculture or husbandry;

L. Construct or place any type of permanent or temporary irrigation system or tailwater holding pond upon, under, across or within any county highway;

M. Use any county highway to park or store any vehicles, any implements of husbandry, or any commodities used or owned by adjacent private businesses.

(Ord. 459-B § 1(part), 1990).

It is unlawful for any person, including the owner or any other person employing or otherwise directing any driver or operator of any of the following identified machinery to do, direct, cause, order or permit to be operated any vehicle or any implement of husbandry or agriculture, including, but not limited to, forklifts, manure spreader trucks, grape harvesters, cotton harvesters, tractors, track layers, plows, disks, rippers, trailers, planes or the like on, over or across any county highway during any field operation or to turn any such vehicle around on any county road; provided that such implements may travel upon the paved portion of a county highway as permitted by the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 459-B § 1(part), 1990).

No road accessing onto a county highway shall be constructed without a prior, written permit from the road commissioner. The road commissioner shall set specifications for such access roads in the permit.

(Ord. 459-B § 1(part), 1990).

Any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished as provided by Chapter 1.12.

(Ord. 459-B § 1(part), 1990).