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27-72-314. Disaster counties.
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27-72-314. Disaster counties.
(a)(1) It is the intent and purpose of this section to make available moneys in the State Aid Road Fund to the credit of disaster counties to be used to restore and repair county bridges or roads which are destroyed or which have suffered extensive damage as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, and to provide, together with county funds, the necessary matching moneys required to enable the disaster counties to obtain federal disaster relief funds for the projects.
(2) Only counties designated by the appropriate federal or state official as disaster counties for public assistance shall be authorized to use moneys in the fund under the matching provisions and for the purposes set forth in this section.
(3) All other moneys deposited in the fund shall be used solely on the matching basis and for the purposes set forth in §§ 27-72-301, 27-72-305, 27-72-312, 27-72-313, and 27-72-315.
(b)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 27-72-301, 27-72-305, 27-72-312, 27-72-313, and 27-72-315, a county that has been determined by the appropriate federal or state official as being a disaster county for public assistance due to tornadoes, excessive rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, shall be eligible to receive state aid road funds credited to the account of the disaster county on a basis of ninety percent (90%) state aid road funds to not less than ten percent (10%) county matching funds.
(2) Funds distributed to a disaster county under the special matching provisions of this subsection shall be used solely for the restoration or repair of county bridges or roads destroyed or which suffered extensive damage
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-314
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27-72-314. Disaster counties.
(a)(1) It is the intent and purpose of this section to make available moneys in the State Aid Road Fund to the credit of disaster counties to be used to restore and repair county bridges or roads which are destroyed or which have suffered extensive damage as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, and to provide, together with county funds, the necessary matching moneys required to enable the disaster counties to obtain federal disaster relief funds for the projects.
(2) Only counties designated by the appropriate federal or state official as disaster counties for public assistance shall be authorized to use moneys in the fund under the matching provisions and for the purposes set forth in this section.
(3) All other moneys deposited in the fund shall be used solely on the matching basis and for the purposes set forth in §§ 27-72-301, 27-72-305, 27-72-312, 27-72-313, and 27-72-315.
(b)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 27-72-301, 27-72-305, 27-72-312, 27-72-313, and 27-72-315, a county that has been determined by the appropriate federal or state official as being a disaster county for public assistance due to tornadoes, excessive rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, shall be eligible to receive state aid road funds credited to the account of the disaster county on a basis of ninety percent (90%) state aid road funds to not less than ten percent (10%) county matching funds.
(2) Funds distributed to a disaster county under the special matching provisions of this subsection shall be used solely for the restoration or repair of county bridges or roads destroyed or which suffered extensive damage as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, regardless of whether the roads or bridges are a part of the state aid system of county roads.
(c) In addition to the uses provided for in subsection (b) of this section, funds distributed to a disaster county under the matching provisions of this section may be used to provide the necessary matching funds required to match federal disaster relief funds available for the restoration or repair of county bridges or roads which are destroyed or extensively damaged as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, regardless of whether the roads or bridges are a part of the state aid system of county roads.
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27-72-301. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Betterment” means any construction or reconstruction on a state aid-designated road which results in an improvement which exceeds or equals any previous improvement whether or not the previous improvement was financed in part or in whole through the provisions of this subchapter;
(2) “Construction”, “reconstruction”, or “improvement” means any proposal submitted by a county court which meets the definition of betterment as opposed to maintenance;
(3) “Maintenance” means any act of work which maintains the improvement in serviceable condition;
(4) “State aid”, by way of funds to be expended on state aid roads, means any sum or sums provided by the General Assembly to supplement funds furnished by the several counties for the purpose of constructing, improving, widening, straightening, surfacing, or reconstructing roads on the state aid system and shall be available to the several counties in a proportion to be fixed and determined by law; and
(5) “State aid roads” means that classification of county roads, including bridges and ferries, composing the major collector and minor collector routes feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system, which are not designated as state highways, and particularly those essential to the conservation and development of natural resources, of economic and social value and encouraging desirable land utilization, having in addition one (1) or more of the following characteristics:
(A) They extend to the larger communities, including all incorporated towns;
(B) They connect with roads of major importance in adjoining counties;
(C) They connect with the state highways to form a complete network of main feeder roads
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-301
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27-72-305. State Aid Road Fund.
(a)(1) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the State Aid Road Fund, to which the Treasurer of State shall transfer one hundred percent (100%) of the revenues credited to the State Highway Special Construction Account of the State Highway and Transportation Department Fund each month until an aggregate total of thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) each fiscal year is so transferred, there to be used for construction, reconstruction, and improvements of the state aid road system.
(2)(A) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, the limitation on the transfer of funds in this subsection (a) shall be increased to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000);
(B) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, the limitation on the transfer of funds in this subsection (a) shall be increased to seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000);
(C) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, the limitation on the transfer of funds in this subsection (a) shall be increased to nineteen million dollars ($19,000,000); and
(D) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003, and for all fiscal years thereafter, there shall be no limitation on the transfer of funds to the State Aid Road Fund.
(b)(1) All revenues deposited in the State Aid Road Fund shall be apportioned to each county as prescribed in § 27-72-309 for the distribution of mileage on the state aid road system among the various counties.
(2) The apportioned funds shall remain for a period of two (2) years from the date they are apportioned.
(3) Any unused funds shall be returned to the State Aid Road Fund for redistribution in accordance with the above formula.
(4) For a county to receive these funds, they must be matched in the ratio of ninety percent (90%) state aid
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-305
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27-72-312. Use of state aid.
(a) Funds deposited in the State Aid Road Fund shall be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction, and improvements of roads on the state aid road system, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter.
(b) Not more than twenty-five percent (25%) of a county's allotment from the fund shall be used for the purposes of resealing.
(c) No funds shall be spent hereunder on any project which shall not culminate directly in a paved hard-surfaced road.
(d) No such funds shall be used for maintenance of state aid roads.
(e) All fund expenditures hereunder shall be made after publication of notice to bidders of the date for final reception of bids and the address at which specifications can be acquired. After a public opening of the bids thereon, all contracts shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-312
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27-72-313. Use of federal-aid secondary road funds.
(a) Each year, fifty percent (50%) of all federal-aid secondary road funds allocated to this state shall be set aside by the State Highway Commission for use on county secondary road projects on the federal-aid secondary roads that are included in the state aid road system.
(b) County funds are to be matched in accordance with the applicable federal law relative thereto.
(c) No federal-aid secondary funds shall be used to match any revenue-sharing funds appropriated hereunder.
(d) Federal-aid secondary road funds that are not committed for use on county secondary federal-aid road projects during any current two-year period shall revert to, and may be used by, the Arkansas Department of Transportation on state secondary highways.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-313
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 27-72-313. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.