§ 32-22-107 — Station area improvement districts

With the approval of each county
or municipality having jurisdiction over the area of such a district, the district may
establish a station area improvement district to finance the construction, operation,
or maintenance of a station for a passenger rail system. A station area improvement
district may consist only of all or a portion of the area within a two-mile radius of
the station to be funded by the station area improvement district, and the general
assembly finds that the area within a two-mile radius of a passenger rail station, or
any portion of such an area that the board may designate as a station area
improvement district, is an area that will be especially benefited by the
construction, operation, or maintenance of such a station. The board shall not
establish a station area improvement district unless it receives a petition signed by
the owners of property that will bear a majority of the proposed assessments and
by a petition signed by the lesser of a majority of the registered electorate in the
proposed station area improvement district or one thousand registered electors in
the proposed station area improvement district. The method of creating a station
area improvement district, making improvements, assessing the costs of
improvements made against property, and levying a sales tax shall be as provided
in part 6 of article 20 of title 30; except that the board shall perform the duties of
the board of county commissioners under said part 6 and the improvements shall be
limited to the construction, operation, or maintenance of a passenger rail station.
Any sales tax adopted pursuant to this section shall be levied in the same manner
as set forth in section 30-20-604.5 (1) and shall be collected, administered, and
enforced by the executive director of the department of revenue pursuant to part 2
of article 2 of title 29.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2021: Entire article added, (SB 21-238), ch. 401, p. 2667, � 1, effective June 30. L. 2024: Entire section amended, (SB 24-025), ch. 144, p. 577, � 37, effective July 1, 2025.