Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Petroleum products: means all benzol, gasoline, burning oil, distillate, fuel oil, gas oil, kerosene, naphtha, or any other volatile substance, excluding propane, reflecting a gravity of sixteen degrees (16°. See Tennessee Code 67-3-103
(1) The department of transportation shall make good faith efforts to obtain participation of either disadvantaged business enterprises or women business enterprises, as such enterprises may be defined by the commissioner of transportation through regulations which the commissioner is authorized to promulgate, in the amount approximating ten percent (10%) of the revenues that are distributed to the statehighway fund from the petroleum products tax increases authorized by chapter 46 of the Public Acts of 1989, and that are let to contract.(2) With respect to projects funded wholly or in part with state funds, the department shall make good faith efforts to obtain participation of either disadvantaged business enterprises or women business enterprises, as such enterprises may be defined by the commissioner through regulations that the commissioner is authorized to promulgate, in the amount approximating seven percent (7%) of the revenues that are distributed to the state highway fund from the petroleum products tax increases, effective 1986, and that are let to contract.(b) As a condition of disbursement of the funds raised by chapter 241 of the Public Acts of 1989, any local government receiving such funds shall agree to make good faith efforts to obtain participation of either disadvantaged business enterprises or women business enterprises, as such enterprises may be defined by the commissioner through regulations which the commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate, in the amount approximating ten percent (10%) of the revenues which are distributed to such governments from the petroleum products tax increases authorized by chapter 241 of the Public Acts of 1989, and which are let to contract.
