Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1040
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected:
IC 8-14-2-4.
Synopsis: Local road and street account distributions. Provides that
the money in the local road and street account is to be distributed
among the counties according to the ratio of each county's passenger
car and pickup truck registrations to the total passenger car and pickup
truck registrations of the state. (Under current law, pickup truck
registrations are disregarded in the distribution of money from the local
road and street account among the counties.) Phases in the change over
a four year period beginning July 1, 2001.
Effective: July 1, 2001.
Oxley, Denbo, Stilwell
January 8, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
Introduced
First Regular Session 112th General Assembly (2001)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1040
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
utilities and transportation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 8-14-2-4; (01)IN1040.1.1. -->
SECTION 1.
IC 8-14-2-4
IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]: Sec. 4. (a) The auditor of state shall
establish a special account to be called the "local road and street
account" and shall credit this account monthly with forty-five percent
(45%) of the money deposited in the highway road and street fund.
(b) The auditor
of state shall distribute to units of local government
money from this account each month.
(c) The auditor of state shall allocate to each county the money in
this account
based on
the basis of the ratio of each county's passenger
car
and pickup truck registrations to the total passenger car
and
pickup truck registrations of the state.
For purposes of this
allocation, a pickup truck is a truck that is 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 Towns that
incorporate between the effective dates of decennial censuses
shall be become 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.
SOURCE: ; (01)IN1040.1.2. -->
SECTION 2. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]
(a) For purposes of
allocating money under
IC 8-14-2-4
, as amended by this act, the
auditor of state shall use the number of pickup truck registrations
in calculating a county's allocative share as follows:
(1) For the period beginning July 1, 2001, and ending June 30,
2002, twenty-five percent (25%) of the total pickup truck
registrations in the state and for a county must be used.
(2) For the period beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30,
2003, fifty percent (50%) of the total pickup truck
registrations in the state and for a county must be used.
(3) For the period beginning July 1, 2003, and ending June 30,
2004, seventy-five percent (75%) of the total pickup truck
registrations in the state and for a county must be used.
(4) After June 30, 2004, one hundred percent (100%) of the
total pickup truck registrations in the state and for a county
must be used.
(b) The bureau of motor vehicles shall determine the number of
pickup truck registrations for purposes of this SECTION.
(c) This SECTION expires June 30, 2005.