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EXPLANATION: Allows SCDOT to enter into agreements with counties and municipalities to transfer some state roads back to local control
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 84,
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, page 411, after line 18, by adding
an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/(DOT: Local Road Transfer) The Department of
Transportation, upon receipt of a proper resolution submitted by
a county or municipal governing authority to the Secretary of
Transportation indicating its conditions, willingness, and
desire to incorporate into the county or municipal road system a
road on the state highway system and to assume the maintenance
thereof, may at its discretion accept the resolution and remove
the road from the state highway system, and it shall thereafter
form a part of the county or municipal road system.
As a condition of such transfer, the Department may
provide a thing of value, including but not limited to credits
towards future construction projects, payment of funds from the
state's share of the County Transportation Committee funds, or
satisfaction of debt owed to the Department. Such thing of value
may be equal to the amount of the present value of the
forty-year projected future maintenance cost of the road to be
transferred and may be funded by the state's share of the County
Transportation Committee funds. Any such condition of transfer
shall be agreed to in writing by all parties./
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.