Reporting on Congestion Mitigation; Letting of Projects

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Highways, Bridges, and Ferries
4. Department of Transportation
5. Exercise of Power to Contract Generally
6. Reporting on Congestion Mitigation; Letting of Projects

1. The staff of the department shall jointly identify and report to the board by July 31 of each odd-numbered year those projects on the state-wide transportation improvement program or otherwise identified that afford the greatest gains in congestion mitigation or promotion of economic development.
2. Any project identified pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section that will not be initiated within two years of the reporting date or that does not have specific available and complete funding may be let and constructed utilizing the procedures of this Code section and Code Section 32-2-80. All personnel of the department shall cooperate in all respects in the letting, construction, maintenance, and operation of such projects, including without limitation providing such access and control of portions of the state highway system as may be requested or required from time to time for such purposes.
3. Projects wholly or partly in a metropolitan planning area shall be included in a fiscally constrained transportation improvement program.

(Code 1981, §32-2-79, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 976, § 10/SB 200.)

Editor's notes.

- Former Code Section32-2-79, concerning requirements for solicited and unsolicited proposals for public-private initiative, was based on Code 1981, § 32-2-79, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 905, § 2; Ga. L. 2005, p. 902, § 2/SB 270; Ga. L. 2006, p. 72, § 32/SB 465, and was repealed by Ga. L. 2009, p. 976, § 1/SB 200, effective May 11, 2009.

Administrative Rules and Regulations.

- Governing public-private partnerships, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, State Department of Transportation, Chapter 672-17.

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