Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Transportation Board; changes composition. [HB-600]
Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB. One member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts (as they exist on July 1, 2012) and three more will be at-large. The three ex officio members remain unchanged.
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Northern Virginia Transportation District; responsibilities of Department of Transportation. [HB-599]
Northern Virginia Transportation District; long-range planning. Establishes responsibilities for various entities for long-range transportation planning for the Northern Virginia Transportation District.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway median maintenance; VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments. [HB-584]
Highway median maintenance agreements. Allows VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments whereby the local governments assume responsibility for maintenance of highway medians within their boundaries.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Salem Highway Construction District Transportation Fund; established. [HB-575]
Transportation funding; Salem Highway Construction District. Provides for transportation funding in the Salem Highway Construction District by allocating revenue attributable to a portion of economic growth due to or facilitated by the Inland Port in Montgomery County.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
VDOT; allowed to drive on portion of highway other than a roadway to/from scene of traffic accident. [HB-545]
Virginia Department of Transportation; incident management. Allows VDOT to drive on a portion of the highway other than a roadway at, en route to, or from the scene of a traffic accident, without direction from law-enforcement officers.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway maintenance projects; allows localities to use revenue-sharing funds. [HB-542]
Highway maintenance projects. Allows counties, cities, and towns to use "revenue-sharing funds" for highway maintenance projects.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Private road; county ordinance may require maintenance by certain lot purchasers. [HB-539]
Private road maintenance. Provides that any county may by ordinance require that, in any instance where individual lots for residential use are subdivided from a larger tract, the deed shall require that each lot purchaser contribute a pro rata share for required private road maintenance. The ordinance may also authorize the majority of lot owners on any private road, whether acting as a group or through a duly organized homeowners' association, to collect from each lot owner on the private road a pro rata share of the reasonable costs of repair,
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Interstate Highway System; allocation of funds for maintenance. [HB-477]
Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts. The bill also provides that the Board shall release for public review a comparison of the proposed allocation of funds by highway construction district.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising, penalty. [HB-471]
Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising; penalty. Requires all outdoor advertising of alcoholic beverages to be in compliance with ABC law, ABC Board regulations, and VDOT law and regulations concerning outdoor advertising. The bill also sets the general rule that no outdoor alcoholic beverage advertising shall be placed within 500 linear feet on the same side of the road, and parallel to such road, measured from the nearest edge of the sign face upon which the advertisement is placed to the nearest edge of a building or structure located
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Vessels; prohibits VDOT from making fast to or lying alongside certain bridges. [HB-440]
Vessels making fast to or lying alongside certain bridges. Prohibits promulgation of VDOT regulations that forbid the master or owner of a vessel no more than 25 feet long from making the vessel fast to or lying alongside any bridge in the system of state highways.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway maintenance funds; CTB to allocate funds on basis of achieving level of disparity. [HB-427]
Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts in meeting asset management standards. Prior to such allocation, the Board shall release for public review a comparison of the proposed allocation of funds by highway construction district with an allocation
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District; created. [HB-407]
Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District. Creates the Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District to provide a means of financing an extension of commuter rail service from Fairfax County into Prince William County.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway median maintenance; VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments. [HB-370]
Highway median maintenance agreements. Allows VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments whereby the local governments assume responsibility for maintenance of highway medians within their boundaries.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Signs or advertising, unlawful; Commissioner of Highways agreements with local government. [HB-34]
Advertising within highway limits. Allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with any local governing body authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner regarding unlawful advertising on highways and collection of penalties and costs. The bill also amends the law regarding such agreements with Fairfax County to provide that signs providing directions to "special events" posted on weekends shall not be subject to such agreements.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Economic development sites; fund for access roads. [HB-333]
Access roads to economic development sites. Clarifies the Code to account for a fund name change from 2006.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Transportation Board; adds urban and rural at-large members. [HB-262]
Commonwealth Transportation Board; membership. Changes the reference to "standard metropolitan statistical areas" to "metropolitan planning areas with populations greater than 200,000."
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Transportation Trust Fund; increases amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to Fund. [HB-23]
Sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount generated by a one percent tax rate, phased in by a 0.1 percent increase each year for five years, or over a longer period of time if there is a lack of growth in general fund revenues.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
State secondary highway system; makes certain road and bridge in Shenandoah County part of system. [HB-188]
State secondary highway system. Makes the road and bridge providing access from Virginia Route 865 to the Black Bear Crossing Community in Maurertown, Shenandoah County, part of the state secondary highway system.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Revenue sharing funds for highways; funds provided to localities are a grant, etc. [HB-155]
Revenue sharing funds for highways in certain localities. Provides that funds provided to localities are a grant and that the Department of Transportation shall not have administrative oversight on local projects. Requires localities to certify in writing to the Department that the funds were used as intended.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Tolls; use to fund other facility. [HB-1297]
Tolls; use to fund other facility. Prohibits tolls imposed for use of one transportation facility to be used in connection with another facility.