Sec. 9. (a) Subject to subsection (e), the governor must approve the location of any tollway.

     (b) The department may, in any combination, plan, design, develop, construct, reconstruct, maintain, repair, police, finance, and operate tollways, public improvements, and arterial streets and roads at those locations that the governor approves.

     (c) The department may, in any combination, plan, design, develop, construct, reconstruct, improve, finance, operate, repair, or maintain public improvements such as roads and streets, sewer lines, water lines, and other utilities if these improvements are:

(1) adjacent or appurtenant to a tollway; or

(2) necessary or desirable for the financing, construction, operation, or maintenance of a tollway.

     (d) The department may, in any combination, plan, design, develop, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, repair, operate, or finance the construction or reconstruction of an arterial highway or an arterial street that:

(1) is adjacent to, appurtenant to, or interchanges with a tollway; or

(2) intersects with a road or street that interchanges with a tollway.

     (e) Before the governor, the department, or an operator may enter into an agreement for the financing, construction, maintenance, or operation of a toll road project, the budget committee must first review the proposed agreement.

As added by P.L.386-1987(ss), SEC.13. Amended by P.L.47-2006, SEC.23; P.L.85-2010, SEC.3; P.L.163-2011, SEC.3; P.L.119-2012, SEC.93; P.L.94-2015, SEC.2; P.L.218-2017, SEC.71.