Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 564 – Minor spans
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 564
- Capital improvement: includes construction of new structures, replacement of existing structures, removal of closed structures and rehabilitation of existing structures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- Capital responsibility: means the responsibility to provide all resources needed to make capital improvement to a structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- Maintenance: means the work necessary to preserve a structure's existing structural or functional capacity and integrity and to abate deterioration of its components. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- Maintenance responsibility: means the responsibility to provide all resources needed to perform maintenance on a structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- Minor span: means a structure designed principally to carry motor vehicles that is larger than a culvert but has a span less than that required to be defined as a bridge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- Municipality: includes departments or bureaus of State Government and quasi-independent agencies or boards of State Government that are responsible for structures on public highways, excepting the Maine Turnpike Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
The department has maintenance responsibility and capital responsibility for all minor spans on state aid highways, unless provided otherwise pursuant to section 566, subsection 5. [PL 2001, c. 314, §2 (NEW); PL 2001, c. 314, §4 (AFF).]
A municipality has maintenance responsibility and capital responsibility for all minor spans on town ways except as provided otherwise pursuant to section 566, subsection 5. For a minor span located on a town line, the municipalities shall equally share capital responsibility unless the municipalities agree otherwise. [PL 2001, c. 314, §2 (NEW); PL 2001, c. 314, §4 (AFF).]
Upon request by a municipality, the department shall provide limited technical advice regarding repair and capital improvement options without assuming any cost of or liability to the municipality. [PL 2001, c. 314, §2 (NEW); PL 2001, c. 314, §4 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2001, c. 314, §2 (NEW). PL 2001, c. 314, §4 (AFF). PL 2001, c. 667, §§C20,22 (AFF).