A. A toll operator may collect tolls, administrative charges and penalties.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-7753

  • Administrative charge: means the amount that may be assessed for the costs of processing a notice of payment due or notice of toll evasion, including the costs to collect unpaid tolls and to pursue an administrative hearing to enforce a toll evasion. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
  • Authorized emergency vehicle: means any of the following:

    (a) A fire department vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Notice of payment due: means the written notice to pay the required tolls and administrative charges for vehicular use of a toll facility. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
  • Notice of toll evasion: means the second written notice of failure to pay a required payment as described in section 28-7759 that is delivered after notice of payment due is delivered. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
  • Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Penalties: means penalties imposed pursuant to section 28-7753. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
  • Private partner: means a person, entity or organization that is not the federal government, this state, a political subdivision of this state or a unit of government. See Arizona Laws 28-7701
  • Public-private agreement: means an agreement entered into pursuant to article 1 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
  • Toll evasion: means the failure to pay in full a notice of payment due within the required time. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
  • Toll facility: means either of the following:

    (a) Any new highway, roadway, lane, bridge, tunnel or other facility for surface transport of people or goods that is subject to payment of a toll for its use, for which an alternative route exists that accommodates the same type of motor vehicles, except for rail or other fixed guideway transit. See Arizona Laws 28-7751

  • Toll operator: means the department in its capacity of imposing and collecting tolls for the use of a toll facility, any public or quasi-public agency appointed by the department to impose or collect tolls for the use of a toll facility that is owned by the department, any private partner authorized to impose and collect tolls by a public-private agreement or any contractor or vendor retained by the department, public agency or private partner to carry out toll collection and enforcement and related customer service functions. See Arizona Laws 28-7751

B. Subject to subsection C of this section, if a toll operator issues a notice of toll evasion because the notice of payment due is not paid on time, the toll operator may impose in the notice of toll evasion an additional administrative charge and a penalty.

C. The department may direct, control, regulate or limit the amount and method of imposing administrative charges and penalties by any public agency or private partner authorized to impose and collect tolls under a public-private agreement or by the public agency’s or private partner’s contractor or vendor.

D. Each toll operator shall use alternative technologies, including an electronically accessible format and the worldwide web, to notify the public of any tolls, administrative charges and penalties that are established.

E. A toll operator shall offer free passage on a toll facility to the following:

1. Any authorized emergency vehicle responding to an emergency.

2. Any motor vehicle if ordered by the director pursuant to section 28-364.

 

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