§ 13a-98i — Agreements for acceptances and expenditure of funds.

Connecticut § 13a-98i

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 13a: Highways and Bridges
• Ch. 238: Highway Construction and Maintenance

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(a) The commissioner may enter into agreements for the acceptance and expenditure of funds concerning federal surface transportation urban program roadways or facilities and eligible federal surface transportation rural collector roadways or facilities with the United States Secretary of Transportation or local officials, or both, to develop plans and establish programs for, and construct improvements on or to such roadways or facilities using appropriations made to the Department of Transportation by the General Assembly and apportionments to the Department of Transportation by said Secretary of Transportation under the provisions of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), all amendments thereto and all applicable federal regulations. Any municipality becoming a party to an agreement concerning such improvements on locally maintained roadways or facilities shall pay fifty per cent of that portion of the cost thereof, which is not paid by the federal government, including required studies, establishing programs, development of plans, engineering expenses, acquisition of rights-of-way, required municipally-owned utility work and construction activities, provided the municipality may pay up to the entire nonfederal government share on locally maintained roadways or facilities when the commissioner and municipality agree that this action is warranted, necessary and desirable in order to obtain federal funds. The state may pay fifty per cent of that portion of the cost thereof which is not paid by the federal government on locally maintained roadways or facilities and shall pay the entire portion not paid by the federal government on state maintained roadways or facilities. (b) For locally maintained roadways or facilities, the commissioner and the municipality may agree upon alternate funding percentages. See Sec. 13a-98m for definition of “federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility”.

Legislative History

(1971, P.A. 584, S. 3; P.A. 75-485, S. 3, 8; P.A. 77-342, S. 1, 3; P.A. 78-331, S. 8; P.A. 88-60, S. 1; P.A. 94-188, S. 4, 30; P.A. 99-181, S. 1, 40; P.A. 06-133, S. 10.) History: P.A. 75-485 clarified provisions by replacing reference to acceptance and expenditures of funds as provided in Sec. 13a-98d with detailed provisions specifying sources of funds and apportionment of costs; P.A. 77-342 added proviso re municipality's payment of entire nonfederal share on locally-maintained routes; P.A. 78-331 specified U.S. Secretary of Transportation to avoid confusion with state transportation officials; P.A. 88-60 amended existing section to require municipalities to pay 50% of all municipally-owned utility work and construction activities on locally maintained routes and added Subsec. (b) to allow the commissioner to determine alternate funding percentages for project phases on locally-maintained routes; P.A. 94-188 replaced “said commissioner is authorized to” with “the commissioner may”, replaced references to the “federal-aid urban system” with references to “federal surface transportation urban program roadways or facilities”, replaced reference to federal Highway Act of 1973 with reference to Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, replaced references to “routes” with references to “roadways or facilities”, changed the language in Subsec. (b) to provide for agreement upon alternate funding percentages by the commissioner and the municipality rather than a determination of such percentages by the commissioner and the municipality, and to delete language concerning individual project phases and provision that the total cost to the municipality and state for all project phases combined would remain at the same percentage established pursuant to “this section”, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 99-181 amended Subsec. (a) by allowing the commissioner to enter into agreements for federal funding of rural collector roadways or facilities and by changing “Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991” to “Transportation Equity Act for the 21 st Century”, effective June 23, 1999; P.A. 06-133 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “Transportation Equity Act for the 21 st Century” with “Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)”, effective June 6, 2006. Cited. 198 C. 185.