2025 California Code
Streets and Highways Code - SHC
DIVISION 1 - STATE HIGHWAYS
CHAPTER 3 - The Care and Protection of State Highways
ARTICLE 3 - Nuisance and Penal Provisions
Section 724.

Universal Citation:
CA St & Hwy Code § 724 (2025)
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724. 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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