31-34-5. Criteria for award.
The board of county commissioners shall, at a minimum, consider the following criteria in awarding rural access infrastructure grants:
(1)Traffic use of the highway;
(2)Public safety;
(3)Residential, commercial, recreational, and other uses of the highway;
(4)Cost of the project;
(5)Length of detour if the project is not completed;
(6)Number of residences, farms, and ranches served by the project;
(7)Contribution from township or others to the project and ability of township to fund the project without utilizing the rural access infrastructure fund;
(8)Confirmation the project is not located on a no maintenance or minimum maintenance road;
(9)Hydrological impact;
(10)If the highway does not terminate into a field entrance, driveway, single residence, farm, or ranch;
(11)The application, or group of applications, that best serves the citizens of this state; and
(12)Any other matters deemed applicable by the board of county commissioners.
The decisions of the county commissioner shall be final and nonappealable. However, a denied application may be submitted in a subsequent year.
Source: SL 2021, ch 129, § 5, eff. Mar. 25, 2021.