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2006 SESSION


CHAPTER 782
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 33.1-49.1, relating to contracts for maintenance of components of the Interstate Highway System.
[H 667]
Approved April 6, 2006

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 33.1-49.1 as follows:

§ 33.1-49.1. Contracts for maintenance of components of Interstate Highway System.

All maintenance on components of the Interstate Highway System in Virginia, excluding frontage roads, shall be carried out under contracts awarded by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and approved by the Commonwealth Transportation Board pursuant to § 33.1-12, except for instances where good and sufficient reasons for not doing so shall have been shown in advance in writing by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to the Commonwealth Transportation Board and to the chairmen of the House Committee on Transportation, the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on Transportation and the Senate Committee on Finance. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Virginia Department of Transportation from performing emergency work at any time on the Interstate System with its own employees or agents or to assume the maintenance responsibilities of a contractor who has been determined to be in default or as a result of a contract termination.

2. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to asset management or maintenance services agreed to as part of the initial provisions of an interim or comprehensive agreement entered into for the construction or reconstruction of or improvements to any highway pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (§ 56-556 et seq.) of the Code of Virginia.

3. That the provisions of this act shall become effective July 1, 2006; however, between July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2009, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner shall develop and plan and execute the provisions of this act to fully contract all work as required no later than June 30, 2009.