Citations Affected:
IC 8-14-2
; IC 9-13-2.
Synopsis: Sport utility vehicles in highway funding. Specifies that, for
purposes of highway funding and the motor vehicle laws, a van, sport
utility vehicle, or other motor vehicle is a passenger motor vehicle and
not a truck if it is designed primarily for carrying passengers. Replaces
the term "passenger car" with "passenger motor vehicle" in the
allocation formula for the local road and street account in order to
include van and sport utility vehicle registrations in the formula.
Effective: July 1, 2000.
January 10, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
motor vehicles.
reconstruction to a degree that new, supplementary, or
substantially improved traffic service is provided, and significant
geometric or structural improvements are effected.
(6) "Arterial road system" shall mean the system of roads
including bridges in each county of Indiana, under the jurisdiction
of the board of county commissioners, or successor body,
including a department of transportation of a consolidated city,
designated as such by the board under
IC 8-23-4-3
, but not
including local county roads.
(7) "Local county roads" shall mean all county roads and bridges
which are not designated as being in the arterial road system.
(8) "Arterial street system" means the system of streets, including
bridges in each city or town in Indiana, under the jurisdiction of
municipal street authorities or successor bodies, including a
department of transportation of a consolidated city, designated as
such by the board under
IC 8-23-4-4
, but not including local
streets.
(9) "Local streets" shall mean all city and town streets and bridges
which are not designated as being in the arterial street system in
each city or town.
(10) "Resurfacing" means the placement of additional pavement
layers (including protective systems for bridge decks) over the
existing (or restored or rehabilitated) roadway or bridge deck
surface to provide additional strength or to improve serviceability
for a substantial time period.
(11) "Restoration and rehabilitation" means work required to
return the existing structure (roadway pavement or bridge deck)
to a suitable condition for an additional stage of construction
(bridge deck protective system or resurfacing) or to a suitable
condition to perform satisfactorily for a substantial time period.
(12) The term "passenger motor vehicle" has the meaning set
forth in
IC 9-13-2-123
(a).
registrations of the state. The auditor 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 between the
effective dates of decennial censuses shall be eligible for
allocations 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.