A. 
It is unlawful for any person to dig, cut, open, excavate or maintain, or to cause to be dug, cut, opened, excavated or maintained, any ditch, cut, hole, drain, tunnel, or other opening, in, through, under, along, across or upon any county or public road, land, street, sidewalk, or highway in the county, without first procuring a permit from the department of public works.
B. 
Prior to the issuance of an encroachment permit for the installation of underground facilities, the granting authority may, in appropriate cases, require a guarantee in the form of bond or cash deposit in an amount equal to the estimated construction cost of the improvement to be installed within the right-of-way area.
1. 
No such bond or cash deposit shall be required of a public utility or public agency which can provide sufficient evidence to the public works director that said utility or agency is of adequate financial responsibility and has not violated any of the terms or provisions of a previous encroachment permit issued by the county of Placer or any other provision of law relating to encroachments within the right-of-way area.
2. 
The purpose of requiring the bond or cash deposit is to restore the highway or road to the condition it was before the work started.
C. 
County Inspection Fees. The county shall inspect all work within the county highway.
1. 
An inspection fee for inspection of underground facilities, excavations, backfill, and resurfacing, shall be charged, based upon a percentage of the construction costs in accordance with the equation and graph set forth in Section 16.08.170.
2. 
An inspection fee for inspection of excavation, backfill, and resurfacing for underground public utility facilities installed by public utility employees, or under the direct supervision of public utility employees, will be charged on an actual costs basis using an hourly rate. Such fee shall be cumulative and payable on a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual basis as mutually agreed upon by the county and each public utility company.
3. 
Exception. Subsections (C)(1) and (2) of this section shall not apply to snow tunnels as defined in Chapter 30, Section 1.171 as amended in 1975, and erected pursuant to Chapter 30, Placer County Code, 1967, as amended in 1975, Section 1726(d).
D. 
Fees for encroachment permits are as follows:
Private drive
$61.00
Private crossing
74.00
Parcel split and commercial
52.00
Fee for utility permit
61.00
(Prior code § 16.5)
It is unlawful for any person to erect or construct any pole line for any purpose over, across, along or upon any county or public road, land, street, sidewalk or highway in the county, without first obtaining a permit from the department of public works.
(Prior code § 16.15)
Any person to whom any permit is granted shall be liable for all damages and the costs of repair that may be caused or result from doing any of the work or things mentioned in this article, and all such things permitted to be done under such permit shall be done under the direction of, and to the satisfaction of the department of public works.
(Prior code § 16.20)
The department of public works is authorized and empowered to formulate and establish rules and regulations, along with all duties and powers incident thereto, for restricting the use of or closing any public road in this county whenever it considers such closing or restriction of use necessary, either for the protection of the public, or for the protection of such road from damage during storms or during construction, improvement or maintenance operations thereof.
(Prior code § 16.30)
The board of supervisors may restrict the use of or close any county highway whenever such board, or any member thereof, considers such closing or restriction of use necessary:
A. 
For the protection of the public;
B. 
For the protection of such highway from damage during storms, or during construction, improvement, maintenance or repair operations thereon;
C. 
For the regulation of vehicle speeds on any public road in this county;
D. 
For the restriction of vehicle parking within the public right-of-way.
(Prior code § 16.45)
To notify the public that a county highway is closed or its use restricted, the board may direct the department of public works to:
A. 
Erect suitable barriers or obstructions upon such highways;
B. 
Post warnings and notices of the condition of any such highway;
C. 
Post signs for the direction of traffic upon it or to or upon any other highway or detour open to public highways;
D. 
Place warning devices on such highways;
E. 
Place regulatory signs or devices indicating the regulations in effect.
(Prior code § 16.50)
Any person who wilfully fails to observe any type of warning or notice placed or posted in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.04.080 or 12.04.090, or who otherwise wilfully violates the provisions of such sections, or who destroys, damages or removes any barriers, obstructions, warning signs, signs, or notices erected, or who drives or travels upon any county highway that has been closed to public travel pursuant to such sections, shall be punished as provided in Article 1.24 of the Placer County Code.
(Prior code § 16.55)
It is unlawful for any person to construct or maintain any private driveway or access road to a county highway without providing such facilities as may be necessary for drainage under such private driveway or access roads with the drainage way along such county highway or without first obtaining a permit therefor from the department of public works.
(Prior code § 16.60)
Except as provided by state or federal law, it is unlawful for any person to construct or maintain any water lines, pipes, conduits or ditches for the conveyance of water under any bridge or culvert on a county highway without a permit from the department of public works.
(Prior code § 16.70)
Every person who hauls, drives, transports or drags any logs, timber, disk, harrow, tractor or machinery of any kind or description over any county or public highway of the county, whereby the surface of the pavement of such county or public highway is marred, cut or in any manner damaged, shall be punished as provided in Article 1.24 of the Placer County Code.
(Prior code § 16.75)
It shall be the duty of every person engaged in herding or driving any sheep or cattle along or over any public road in the county to so herd or drive such sheep or cattle so that they shall travel only in such road and not on the banks thereof nor on the hillsides immediately above same except where such digression from the road may be unavoidable; and in order to protect the traveling public from dust, delay and annoyance, it shall be the duty of any person herding or driving sheep or cattle along or upon any public road in the county, upon the approach of a vehicle from either direction, to so herd or drive such sheep or cattle as to provide without unnecessary or unreasonable delay, a passageway, within the limits of such road, through the bands of sheep or cattle thus driven, for such vehicle, and likewise allow all horsemen to pass such sheep or cattle without unnecessary delay; and it is unlawful for any person engaged in herding or driving sheep or cattle upon any public road in the county to unnecessarily delay any traveler in his or her lawful passage over any such roads, or to camp or corral such sheep or cattle on any of such roads.
(Prior code § 16.80)
It is unlawful for any person to use snow recreation equipment (including, but not limited to, skis, sleds, toboggans, disks, ice skates and vehicles of a motorized sled type, sometimes known by such names as Sno-Mobile, Skidoo, or any brand name or type of motorized sled) on or across any county road or county road right-of-way, or on or across any county property, except on roadways and parking areas maintained by the county for the use of motor vehicles or other county property specifically designated by the board of supervisors for the use of such snow recreation equipment.
(Prior code § 16.85)
It is unlawful for any person to operate a motorcycle, as defined in Vehicle Code Section 400, on county property except at the following locations:
A. 
Roadways and parking areas maintained by the county for use of motor vehicles; or
B. 
Other county property specifically designated by the board of supervisors for use of motor vehicles.
(Prior code § 16.90)
It is unlawful for any person to use, enter, walk upon or cross any county bridge except within the portions of the bridges designated for pedestrians. The provisions of this section do not apply to officers, agents or employees of Placer County engaged in normal maintenance, repair or inspection of county bridges.
(Prior code § 16.95)
A. 
It is unlawful for any person to use, enter, walk upon, or jump from any county bridge for the purpose of recreational flight accomplished with the use of parachutes, parasails, hang gliders, bungee jumpers, ultra-lite airplanes, balloons, or other contrivances.
B. 
Any of the recreational activities prohibited in subsection A of this section may be permitted for the purpose of commercial filming of such activity in accordance with the permitting requirements of Article 5.25 of this code.
(Prior code § 16.96; Ord. 5870-B § 2, 2017)
All persons using the passageways or gates through fences which cross the trails or roads to which this article is applicable shall and must close passageways or gates after using same for passage along the trails or roads; provided, however, that all persons using such trails and roads pursuant to Sections 12.04.220 through 12.04.250 shall and must refrain from trespassing on private lands through which trails and roads pass.
(Prior code § 16.105)
No person, whether an owner of land over which such trails and roads pass or not, shall obstruct the use of such trails and roads except that normal seasonal logging operations, unlocked gates or other means of preventing the straying of livestock will be permitted. In the event the present route of a trail or road prevents the normal use of the land by the owner thereof, such trail or road may be rerouted subject to the approval of the board of supervisors.
(Prior code § 16.110)
It is unlawful for any person to unlawfully obstruct the public use of any real property, or interest therein, expressly or by operation of law dedicated to public use, or to remove, deface, or otherwise damage any sign installed or maintained by the county identifying such property as open to public use.
(Prior code § 16.115)
Permission is granted to the county of Nevada, state of California, to use the following described county highways within the county of Placer which connect with a main county highway of Nevada County, for the purpose of conducting and maintaining thereon highways to serve the needs of the residents of both Placer and Nevada Counties:
A. 
Donner Lake Drive (Road No. 731, 0.29 miles) and Point Drive (Road No. 731, 0.02 miles) as the same are designated on the Donner Lake Villa Tract No. 1 Subdivision Map and recorded in Book D, Page 3 of the official records of Placer County recorder.
B. 
Red Mountain Road (Road No. 731W, 0.12 miles), Mt. Judah Drive (Road No. 731X, 0.24 miles) and Devils Peak Road (Road No. 731Y, 0.11 miles) as the same are designated on the Southside Highlands No. 2 Subdivision Map and recorded in Book G, Page 50 of the official records of the Placer County recorder.
C. 
Connifer Drive East (Road No. 7310, 0.07 miles), Connifer Drive (Road No. 731P, 0.39 miles), Maple Street (Road No. 731T, 0.04 miles), Dogwood Street (Road No. 731T, 0.04 miles), South Shore Drive (Road No. 731, 0.07 miles), and Larch Street (Road No. 731U, 0.04 miles), as the same are designated in the Donner Woods No. 2 Subdivision Map, and recorded in Book E, Page 36 of the official records of the Placer County recorder.
(Prior code § 16.175)
A. 
The county shall pay a reward in the amount of $1,000 to each person who furnishes information leading to arrest, prosecution, and conviction of any person for willfully destroying, damaging, altering, or removing any county road sign regulating the speed or movement of motor vehicles.
B. 
The county shall pay a reward in the amount of $250 to each person who furnishes information leading to the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of any person for wilfully destroying, damaging, altering, or removing any county-owned property.
(Prior code § 16.185)
Each person, to qualify for payment of such reward, shall comply with all of the following requirements:
A. 
Personally observe the violation.
B. 
Make a prompt report of such violation to the appropriate county law enforcement agency or to the county department of public works.
C. 
Give sufficient identifying information to enable the appropriate law enforcement agency to identify the violator(s).
D. 
At all times stand ready, willing, and able to sign a misdemeanor complaint charging the violator(s) with the offense and to testify at any judicial proceedings.
The reward payable under this article shall be payable only if a conviction is obtained.
(Prior code § 16.190)
Any person who has wilfully damaged or destroyed such property shall be liable for the amount of any reward paid pursuant to this article; and if he is a minor, his parent or guardian shall also be liable for the amount.
(Prior code § 16.195)