Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 376 - Highways; prohibit certain funding

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1. Stancil  16th          2. Smith  12th             3. Pinholster  15th
4. Perry  11th            5. Shanahan  10th          6. Hudson  156th


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HB 376                                            LC 18 6473






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state highway
  1- 3  system, so as to prohibit the funding of certain roads and
  1- 4  corridors until after the completion of the developmental
  1- 5  highway system; to provide for an effective date; to repeal
  1- 6  conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official Code of
  1- 9  Georgia Annotated, relating to the state highway system, is
  1-10  amended by striking subsection (a) of Code Section 32-4-22,
  1-11  relating to the creation of the developmental highway
  1-12  system, in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the
  1-13  following:

  1-14    "(a) There is created as a part of the state highway
  1-15    system a system of public roads to be known as the
  1-16    Developmental Highway System which shall consist of the
  1-17    following road corridors (not in order of priority):

  1-18      (1) Appalachian;

  1-19      (2) The South Georgia Parkway;

  1-20      (3) U.S. 27;

  1-21      (4) U.S. 82;

  1-22      (5) Golden Isles;

  1-23      (6) Savannah River;

  1-24      (7) U.S. 441;

  1-25      (8) Fall Line;

  1-26      (9) U.S. 319;

  1-27      (10) U.S. 19;

  1-28      (11) U.S. 84;



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                                                  LC 18 6473

  2- 1      (12) U.S. 1/SR 17;

  2- 2      (13) SR 72;

  2- 3      (14) Outer Perimeter; and

  2- 4      (15) East-west Highway from I-59 North to I-85 North;
  2- 5      and

  2- 6      (16) Truck access routes.

  2- 7    Said system is further identified as being those roads and
  2- 8    corridors referred to as 'the Governor's Road Improvement
  2- 9    Program' in that resolution adopted by the State
  2-10    Transportation Board dated November 17, 1988.
  2-11    Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
  2-12    contrary, no state funds shall be expended through the
  2-13    Department of Transportation or otherwise for the
  2-14    maintenance or construction of any road or corridor
  2-15    located within the corporate limits of the City of Atlanta
  2-16    until after final completion of all of the roads and
  2-17    corridors identified in this subsection."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-18  This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the
  2-19  Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

                         SECTION 3.

  2-20  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-21  repealed.





















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