State highways: bypasses of a city or business district.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law requires the department, when any state highway is relocated in a manner that bypasses a city or business district, to erect and maintain appropriate directional signs at specified locations for guidance of traffic desiring to enter the city or business district. This bill, with respect to a bypass that is completed on or after January 1, 2014, would provide that a city or county shall be eligible to receive funding from an unspecified account for the purposes of revitalizing a city or business district due to the loss of tourism business resulting from the highway relocation.