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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Hutto
Document Path: l:\council\bills\swb\5851cm04.doc
Introduced in the Senate on February 24, 2004
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Transportation
Summary: Orangeburg County, I-95, Lake Marion, toll of $1 to expand interstate
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/24/2004 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-8 2/24/2004 Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation SJ-8
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 57-3-620 SO AS TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO IMPOSE A TOLL OF ONE DOLLAR ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 95 WHERE IT CROSSES LAKE MARION IN EITHER ORANGEBURG COUNTY OR CLARENDON COUNTY, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE TOLL MUST BE USED TO EXPAND INTERSTATE 95 TO A MINIMUM OF SIX LANES FROM WHERE IT BEGINS AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA-GEORGIA BORDER TO WHERE IT ENDS AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA-NORTH CAROLINA BORDER.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 7, Chapter 3, Title 57 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 57-3-620. Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Department of Transportation shall impose a toll of one dollar along Interstate Highway 95 where it crosses Lake Marion in either Orangeburg County or Clarendon County. The revenue collected from the imposition of this toll must be used to expand Interstate 95 to a minimum of six driving lanes from where it begins at the South Carolina-Georgia border to where it ends at the South Carolina-North Carolina border."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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