1. A. The Local Government Division of the Department of Transportation shall immediately establish a program to aid counties in replacing or reconstructing bridges and roads. The bridges and roads to be replaced or reconstructed shall be those that are structurally inadequate, functionally obsolete or have been destroyed or rendered unusable.
2. B. Funds made available for the purposes of the County Bridge and Road Improvement Act may be used to pay the cost of county bridge inspections, classifications, and evaluations, and county road inspections, classifications, and evaluations for federal and state purposes and to match federal or state funds, provided the applicable federal or state funds are available.
3. C. Except as otherwise specified in this act, the county collector system, including any future revisions thereto, shall constitute the system of roads wherein the bridges and roads are located that are eligible for project funding under this act. Official maps showing the county collector system in each county shall be maintained on file by the Department of Transportation and shall be furnished each county at no cost.
4. D. The Department of Transportation may approve the utilization of up to ninety percent (90%) of the estimated four-year apportionment to the county for county projects. However, no additional projects may be approved for the county until the county has accumulated a surplus of three (3) months of apportionments and repaid all funds advanced from the State Highway Construction and Maintenance Fund.
5. E. When a county bridge sustains damage, whether caused by a natural or artificial event, and consequently requires immediate repair, the board of county commissioners may by resolution direct the transfer, by the Department of Transportation, of any unencumbered monies in that county’s account in the County Bridge and Road Improvement Fund, to that county’s highway fund, for the sole purpose of repairing or reconstructing said bridge.

Added by Laws 1980, HB 1819, c. 307, § 4, emerg. eff. June 17, 1980; Amended by Laws 1981, HB 1115, c. 68, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 1981; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1613, c. 352, § 3, emerg. eff. July 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1100, c. 98, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1991; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1397, c. 20, § 1, eff. November 1, 1995; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 2038, c. 284, § 21, emerg. eff. July 1, 1997 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2006, SB 1390, c. 157, § 1, emerg. eff. May 15, 2006 (superseded document available).