Transportation construction and maintenance; revises allocation system. (SB329)

Introduced By

Sen. Frank Wagner (R-Virginia Beach)

Description

Transportation construction and maintenance. Revises Virginia's transportation construction and maintenance allocation system in accordance with recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to the 2002 Session of the General Assembly. This bill has been referred for study under SJR 60. Amends § 33.1-1 (“State Highway and Transportation Board continued as Commonwealth Transportation Board; number and terms of members; removal from office; Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner continued as Commissioner of Highways; vacancies.”), § 33.1-12 (“General powers and duties of Board, etc.; definitions.”), § 33.1-12.1 (“Agreements between Commissioner and certain cities and towns.”), § 33.1-2 (“Residence requirements; statewide interest.”), § 33.1-23.05 (“Revenue-sharing funds for systems in certain counties, cities, and towns.”), § 33.1-23.1 (“Allocation of funds among highway systems.”), § 33.1-23.2 (“Allocation of construction funds for primary system and interstate match.”), § 33.1-23.4 (“Allocation of construction funds within secondary system.”), § 33.1-23.5:1 (“Funds for counties which have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary system of state highways.”), § 33.1-25 (“Primary system of state highways; \u201cState Highway System\u201d construed.”), § 33.1-268 (“Definitions.”), § 33.1-269 (“General powers of Board.”), § 33.1-277 (“Credit of Commonwealth not pledged.”), § 33.1-285.1 (“Reserve funds and appropriations.”), § 33.1-31 (“Certain park roads in primary system.”), § 33.1-32 (“Maintenance of roads, bridges and toll facilities within boundaries of state parks.”), § 33.1-34 (“Transfer of roads, etc., from secondary to primary system; additions to primary system.”), § 33.1-35 (“Transfer of roads, etc., from primary to secondary system.”), § 33.1-39 (“Bypasses through or around cities and incorporated towns.”), § 33.1-41.1 (“Payments to cities and certain towns for maintenance of certain highways.”), § 33.1-416 (“Agreements with Commonwealth Transportation Board; payment of special improvements tax to Transportation Trust Fund.”), § 33.1-42 (“Incorporation into State Highway System of connecting streets and roads in certain other towns and cities; maintenance, etc., costs.”), § 33.1-436 (“Agreements with the Commonwealth Transportation Board; payment of special improvements tax to Transportation Trust Fund.”), § 33.1-44 (“Matching highway funds; funding of urban system construction projects, generally.”), § 33.1-46 (“Character of signs, etc., in event of matching public funds.”), § 33.1-46.1 (“Highway aid to mass transit.”), § 33.1-46.2 (“Designation of high-occupancy vehicle lanes; use of such lanes; penalties.”), § 33.1-46.4 (“Counties may perform certain maintenance.”), § 33.1-47 (“Approval of markings and traffic lights erected by towns.”), § 33.1-47.1 (“Landscape studies for urban highway construction projects.”), § 33.1-55 (“Relocation or removal of utility facilities within projects on Interstate System.”), § 33.1-56 (“Relocation or removal of utility facilities within projects on interstate system; additional provisions.”), § 33.1-61 (“Parallel service roads; standards for access, service, etc., roads.”), § 33.1-67 (“Secondary system of highways.”), § 33.1-69.2 (“Relocation or removal of utility facilities within secondary highway construction projects.”), § 33.1-70.01 (“Annual meeting with county officers; six-year plan for secondary highways; certain reimbursements required.”), § 33.1-70.1 (“Requesting Department to hard-surface secondary roads; paving of certain secondary roads within existing rights-of-way; designation as Rural Rustic Road.”), § 33.1-72.1 (“Taking certain streets into secondary system.”), § 33.1-75.1 (“”), § 33.1-75.2 (“Contributions to primary or secondary road construction by counties.”), § 33.1-75.3 (“Construction and improvement of primary or secondary highways by counties.”), § 33.1-79 (“Maintenance, etc., of streets and roads in certain towns from secondary funds.”), § 33.1-84 (“Maps of secondary system.”), § 33.1-88 (“Machinery, etc., owned by returning county.”), § 46.2-1149.2 (“Permit authorizing transportation of tree-length logs.”), § 46.2-815 (“Hauling certain cargoes through tunnels in violation of posted signs; penalty.”), § 58.1-2259 (“Fuel uses eligible for refund.”), § 58.1-815.1 (“Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund.”), of the Code of Virginia. View Full Text »

Outcome

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