1. The department shall submit to the department of management, as provided by chapter 8, a detailed estimate of the amount required by the department during each succeeding biennium for the support of the department and for engineering and administration of highway work and maintenance of the primary road system. Such estimate shall be in the same general form and detail as is required by chapter 8 and said chapter shall apply to the budgeting, appropriation, and expenditure of funds in the primary road fund in the same manner as such chapter applies to other departments. However, the amount of contracts for bituminous resurfacing, bridge painting and repair, pavement and shoulder repair, agreements with cities for maintenance on primary road extensions and agreements with counties, cities, and institutions for maintenance on state park, state institution, and other state land roads need not be included in the amount appropriated for maintenance.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 313.5

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 313.42
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • highway: means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular travel, except in public areas in which the boundary shall be thirty-three feet each side of the center line of the roadway. See Iowa Code 321I.1
  • road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. The provisions of chapter 8 shall apply except that the provisions of section 8.39 shall not apply to funds appropriated to the department under section 313.4; however, section 8.39, subsection 1, shall apply to appropriations for support of the department and for engineering and administration of highway work and maintenance of the primary road system.
 3. Any contingent fund appropriated to the department from the primary road fund shall be subject to the following conditions:

 a. A written statement from the department of management shall be obtained, recommending expenditures from the fund for the purposes requested by the department.
 b. The department of management and the governor shall determine that the expenditures contemplated are in the best interest of the state, and that the purpose or project for which funds are requested was not presented to the general assembly by way of a bill and which failed to become enacted into law.
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