Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 567 – Bridge capital improvement priorities
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 567
- Bridge: means a structure, including supports, designed principally to carry motor vehicles that is erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway or a railway, and has an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 20 feet between the undercropping of abutments or spring lines of arches or the extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
- 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
- Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
The department shall biennially prepare a list of bridges that are eligible for capital improvement under this subchapter, arranged in priority order using accepted bridge management principles and as constrained by available funding. The department is the final arbiter as to whether any bridge is placed on the list. The department shall consult with municipalities regarding the manner of improving low use bridges on town ways and redundant bridges on town ways. [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).