Citations Affected: IC 8-14-2-4.
Synopsis: Pickup trucks in road funding formula. Provides that the
money in the local road and street account shall be distributed among
counties according to the ratio of each county's passenger car and
pickup truck registrations to the total passenger car and pickup truck
registrations statewide. (Under current law, pickup truck registrations
are disregarded in the distribution formula.)
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
transportation.
registered under IC 9-18-2-8 as a truck with a declared gross
weight of not more than eleven thousand (11,000) pounds. The
auditor of state shall further determine the suballocation between the
county and the cities within the county as follows:
(1) In counties having a population of more than fifty thousand
(50,000), sixty percent (60%) of the money shall be distributed on
the basis of the population of the city or town as a percentage of
the total population of the county and forty percent (40%)
distributed on the basis of the ratio of city and town street mileage
to county road mileage.
(2) In counties having a population of fifty thousand (50,000) or
less, twenty percent (20%) of the money shall be distributed on
the basis of the population of the city or town as a percentage of
the total population of the county and eighty percent (80%)
distributed on the basis of the ratio of city and town street mileage
to county road mileage.
(3) For the purposes of allocating funds as provided in this
section, towns which become incorporated as a town A town that
incorporates between the effective dates of decennial censuses
shall be becomes eligible for allocations under this section upon
the effectiveness of a corrected population count for the town
under IC 1-1-3.5.
(4) Money allocated under the provisions of this section to
counties containing a consolidated city shall be credited or
allocated to the department of transportation of the consolidated
city.
(d) Each month the auditor of state shall inform the department of
the amounts allocated to each unit of local government from the local
road and street account.