Indiana § 8-19-3-1 Plans and specifications for improvements

Indiana Statutes

§ 8-19-3-1 — Plans and specifications for improvements

Indiana § 8-19-3-1

Art. 19COUNTY ROAD PETITIONS AND

Ch. 3Petition for Public Highway Improvement

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Ten (10) or more resident freeholders may petition the county executive for assistance in grading any public highway connecting at either end with a county or state highway, connecting with any highway improved under this chapter, or connecting with the boundaries of any municipality. If the executive determines that it would be a public utility to grade and drain the highway, the executive shall order the engineer to survey the highway and prepare plans and specifications for its improvement. The plans and specifications must show:

(1)the profile, grade, and cross-section of the old and new roadway at least at each one hundred (100) feet, that the roadway shall be graded to a width of twenty (20) feet between the inside of ditches (except where physical conditions make that width impossi

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Ten (10) or more resident freeholders may
petition the county executive for assistance in grading any public
highway connecting at either end with a county or state highway,
connecting with any highway improved under this chapter, or
connecting with the boundaries of any municipality. If the executive
determines that it would be a public utility to grade and drain the
highway, the executive shall order the engineer to survey the highway
and prepare plans and specifications for its improvement. The plans
and specifications must show:
(1) the profile, grade, and cross-section of the old and new
roadway at least at each one hundred (100) feet, that the roadway
shall be graded to a width of twenty (20) feet between the inside
of ditches (except where physical conditions make that width
impossible) and that the roadway shall have a cross-section crown
of eight (8) inches, and a grade not to exceed six percent (6%);
(2) the design of any necessary supplemental road parts; and
(3) the method of grading and finishing the roadway.
Formerly: Acts 1921, c.178, s.1. As amended by P.L.66-1984,
SEC.114; P.L.11-1987, SEC.15; P.L.86-1988, SEC.158.