SECTION 730:10-7-4. Use of funds

  Funds available to the County Bridge and Road Improvement Revolving Fund may be only used for the following purposes:

(1)   Construction projects for the improvement of county roads.

(2)   Construction projects to replace or reconstruct structurally inadequate, functionally obsolete, destroyed or unusable bridges on the county collector system.

(3)   Matching federal funds for road or bridge construction projects, provided the applicable federal program funds are available at the time of project approval.

(4)   Matching federal funds for the annual Federal Highway Administration allocation to the Center for Local Government Technology at Oklahoma State University for the Federal Highway Administration Rural Technical Assistance Program, up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount of funding the state is required to provide, but not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).

(5)   Project engineering costs.

(6)   The cost of right-of-way acquired for projects to be constructed under the provisions of the County Bridge and Road Improvement Act, the cost of relocation of utilities from the right-of-way so acquired, and the cost incurred for the employment of fee consultants in properly acquiring and clearing the right-of-way.

(7)   Any cost or expense for administration, program management, engineering, including the development of appropriate local road standards, or construction supervision necessarily incurred by the Department of Transportation in fulfilling its duties and responsibilities pursuant to the County Bridge and Road Improvement Act.

(8)   The cost of reconstruction or replacement of roadway structures which may be less than twenty (20) feet in length.

(9)   Any cost of expense related to a comprehensive plan for signing the county road system, including Nine-One-One (911) emergency telephone service route markers, traffic-control and other informational signs and the maintenance of such signs as according to policies to be developed jointly by the Department of Transportation and the Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma.

(10)   The expense and related costs of employing an engineer to assist a county or counties in carrying out the day-to-day operations of road maintenance and construction, including the employment of a circuit engineer pursuant to the provisions of the County Bridge and Road Improvement Act.

(11)   The cost of county bridge inspections, classifications, and evaluations, and county road inspections, classifications, and evaluations for federal and state purposes and to match federal or state funds, provided the applicable federal or state funds are available.

(12)   Those specific conditions that may justify the need to reconstruction or replace a bridge or a road on a road section not included in the county collector system. In such instances, justification must be provided to the Department.

[Source: Amended at 17 Ok Reg 1368, eff 5-11-00]