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Tit. XI, Ch. 7. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ROAD SYSTEMS. §§ 2912-2914.
CHAPTER 7.
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ROAD SYSTEMS.
SECTION 2912. Primary road fund—apportionment.
1 There is hereby created a fund which shall be known as the pri-
2 mary road fund, which shall embrace :
3 1. The federal-county-cooperative road fund as created by chap-
4 ter six of this title.
5 2. All additional and future federal aid road funds.
6 3. All other funds derived from year to year by the state under
7 acts regulatory of motor vehicles, except such portion of said motor
8 vehicle fund as shall be necessary to maintain the federal aid engi-
9 neering fund, and as may, by law, be retained in the state treasury as
10 a maintenance fund for the state highway commission, or as a fund
11 to cover administration of the motor vehicle department.
12 The state highway commission shall apportion the primary road
13 fund as herein provided. For the purposes of administration, the
14 apportionment to any county may be made up partly -from the federal
15 aid road allotments.
16 Said primary road fund shall be apportioned to the respective
17 counties in the ratio that the area of the county bears to the total
18 area of the state, and shall be employed as herein provided, solelv in :
19 1. The drainage, grading, surfacing and maintenance of the
20 roads of the primary road system,
21 2. The elimination or improvement of railroad crossings, and
22 3. The construction and maintenance of bridges and culverts
23 located on such primary road system,
24 except as hereinafter provided.
25 Nothing herein contained shall be construed as precluding the
26 board of supervisors from paying for the construction and main-
27 tenance of bridges and culverts on the primary road system, from the
28 county bridge fund.
29 The portion of said fund apportioned to each county as above
30 provided, is hereby pledged to the completion of said primary system
31 and is dedicated by the state to the county, to be used solely for the
32 payment of the cost of such improvements or the maintenance thereof,
33 and for the redemption of any bonds issued therefor as herein pro-
34 vided.
[38 G. A., ch. 237, § 4 ; 39 G. A., ch. 20, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch.
188, § 2.]
SEC. 2913-al. Accounts by state auditor and treasurer.
1 The account of the primary road fund kept by the state auditor
2 and the state treasurer shall show the amount of the primary road
3 fund with all credits thereto and disbursements therefrom, and shall
4 deal with said fund as a single fund.
[39 G. A., ch. 188, § 4.]
SEC. 2914. Options authorized—election in re hard surfacing.
1 Each county, acting through its board of supervisors, shall have
2 three options in the expenditure of its allotments from the primary
3 road fund: