Arizona Laws 28-6538. Arizona highway user revenue fund distribution; remaining monies; highway fund distribution; contract authorization; plan requirements
A. Each fiscal year the department shall allocate and the state treasurer shall distribute revenues of the Arizona highway user revenue fund remaining after the distribution provided in sections 28-6534 and 28-6537 as follows:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-6538
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Population: means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532 and revisions to the decennial or special census certified by the United States bureau of the census. See Arizona Laws 28-6531
- Right-of-way: when used within the context of the regulation of the movement of traffic on a highway means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- State highway: means a state route or portion of a state route that is accepted and designated by the board as a state highway and that is maintained by the state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- State highway fund: means the state highway fund established by section 28-6991. See Arizona Laws 28-6531
- State route: means a right-of-way whether actually used as a highway or not that is designated by the board as a location for the construction of a state highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
1. To the state highway fund, fifty and one-half percent.
2. To the counties, nineteen percent.
3. To the incorporated cities and towns, twenty-seven and one-half percent.
4. To incorporated cities with a population of three hundred thousand or more persons, three percent.
B. At least twelve and six-tenths percent of the revenues allocated each year to the state highway fund pursuant to subsection A of this section shall be further distributed in the following proportions and for the following purposes:
1. Seventy-five percent of the revenues shall be spent, pledged or accumulated in counties with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more persons for the design, right-of-way purchase or construction of controlled access highways that are included in the plan as defined in section 28-6351 and that are accepted into the state highway system either as a state route or as a state highway.
2. Twenty-five percent of the revenues shall be spent, pledged or accumulated in counties with a population of more than eight hundred thousand but less than one million five hundred thousand persons for:
(a) The design, right-of-way purchase or construction of controlled access highways that are included in the plan as defined in section 28-6351 and that are accepted into the state highway system either as a state route or as a state highway or related grade separations of controlled access highways that are included in the plan as defined in section 28-6351.
(b) Notwithstanding sections 28-6993 and 28-6995, the design, right-of-way purchase, construction, standard and reduced clearance grade separation, extension and widening of arterial streets and highways that are included in the plan as defined in section 28-6351.
C. Of the monies allocated to the state highway fund pursuant to subsection A of this section, not more than $5,000,000 annually shall be spent for the acquisition, construction or improvement of entry roads to state parks or roads in state parks.
D. Expenditures for state matching monies for the federal interstate system shall be in addition to the amount provided in subsection B of this section.
E. The department may contract with a county, city or town to allow the county, city or town to construct the streets or highways prescribed in subsection B of this section.
F. A county described in subsection B of this section and the cities and towns in the county, through their regional planning agency, shall list transportation corridors by priority in the plan as defined in section 28-6351. The plan as defined in section 28-6351 may also provide a suggested construction schedule for the transportation corridors contained in the plan.