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27-72-502. Approval — Expenditures.
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27-72-502. Approval — Expenditures.
(a) Upon approval of the State Highway Commission, the quorum court, and the county judge, any county may expend state aid road funds, as deposited in the State Aid Road Fund pursuant to § 27-72-305 and as administered pursuant to the policies of the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the State Highway and Transportation Department, as provided in § 27-72-304, for the construction, replacement, or reconstruction of bridges located in incorporated towns with a population of five hundred (500) or less, according to the latest federal census, within the county and may use the state aid road funds as matching funds for state, federal, and local funds available for the replacement, construction, or reconstruction of the bridges, provided such bridges are on highways, roads, or streets in such incorporated towns which are extensions to “state aid roads”, as that term is defined in § 27-72-301.
(b) Such extensions shall not be included in the county's allocated state aid system mileage total. Provided, further, such approval may be granted only on a project-by-project basis.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-502
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27-72-502. Approval — Expenditures.
(a) Upon approval of the State Highway Commission, the quorum court, and the county judge, any county may expend state aid road funds, as deposited in the State Aid Road Fund pursuant to § 27-72-305 and as administered pursuant to the policies of the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the State Highway and Transportation Department, as provided in § 27-72-304, for the construction, replacement, or reconstruction of bridges located in incorporated towns with a population of five hundred (500) or less, according to the latest federal census, within the county and may use the state aid road funds as matching funds for state, federal, and local funds available for the replacement, construction, or reconstruction of the bridges, provided such bridges are on highways, roads, or streets in such incorporated towns which are extensions to “state aid roads”, as that term is defined in § 27-72-301.
(b) Such extensions shall not be included in the county's allocated state aid system mileage total. Provided, further, such approval may be granted only on a project-by-project basis.
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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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27-72-304. State aid engineer.
(a) The Division of State Aid Road Construction of the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall be headed by a state aid engineer.
(b) The state aid engineer shall be a registered engineer with at least three (3) years experience as a county road or highway engineer and a thorough knowledge of rural road problems.
(c) The state aid engineer under the direction of the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) To advise with the county judges of the several counties on all matters of policy, use of funds, uniform standards for state aid roads, safeguards in accounting methods, and other related matters and to cooperate with the several county judges on all matters connected with the laying out and construction of the state aid system of county roads;
(2) To promulgate uniform and reasonable rules and regulations as he or she may deem necessary to effectuate a proper designation of state aid roads to be constructed in each county, the methods for determining priority of construction, the making of surveys, and the preparation of plans and specifications for the construction of state aid roads;
(3) To provide a uniform system of accounting in the expenditure of state aid road funds;
(4) To prepare and promulgate practical uniform design standards and specifications for the construction of state aid roads in such a way as to get the most miles for each dollar, with the prime consideration being to provide economical, utilitarian paved roads suitable for rural needs, not to accommodate relatively large amounts of traffic or to be designed for high speed transportation. These uniform design standards and specifications may be modified or amended from time to time as the state aid engine
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-72-304
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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
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 27-72-305. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.