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HB 1949 Highway maintenance and construction; responsibility of counties.

Introduced by: Robert D. Hull | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Secondary highways; resumption of responsibilities by counties. Provides a mechanism by which counties may resume responsibility for some or all of state secondary highways within their boundaries. This bill is the same as HB 2049 (Rollison) and SB 1045 (Williams).

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Highway maintenance and construction; Fairfax County. Provides, if so requested by a resolution adopted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and transmitted prior to January 1, 2002, to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, that Fairfax County will be treated as a city for the purpose of highway construction and maintenance, beginning on July 1, 2002; requires the transfer to Fairfax County of land, structures, facilities, equipment, employees, and resources that had been involved with the programs thus transferred to Fairfax County; and provides that this shall not affect highway construction or maintenance contracts entered into prior to the effective date of the act for projects in Fairfax County. See also HB 1948 (Hull) and HB 2049 (Rollison).

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Highway maintenance and construction; Fairfax County. Provides, if so requested by a resolution adopted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and transmitted prior to January 1, 2002, to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, that Fairfax County will be treated as a city for the purpose of highway construction and maintenance, beginning on July 1, 2002; requires the transfer to Fairfax County of land, structures, facilities, equipment, employees, and resources that had been involved with the programs thus transferred to Fairfax County; and provides that this shall not affect highway construction or maintenance contracts entered into prior to the effective date of the act for projects in Fairfax County.