05 LC
25 3762
House
Bill 926
By:
Representative Jones of the
46th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 32-2-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
powers and duties of the Department of Transportation, so as to require the
department to construct multiuse paths for pedestrian and bicycle traffic along
certain portions of the state highway system; to repeal conflicting laws; and
for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 32-2-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to powers and
duties of the Department of Transportation, is amended by striking paragraph (1)
of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"(1)(A)
The department shall plan, designate, improve, manage, control, construct, and
maintain a state highway system and shall have control of and responsibility for
all construction, maintenance, or any other work upon the state highway system
and all other work which may be designated to be done by the department by this
title or any other law. However, on those portions of the state highway system
lying within the corporate limits of any municipality, the department shall be
required to provide only substantial maintenance activities and operations,
including but not limited to reconstruction and major resurfacing,
reconstruction of bridges, erection and maintenance of official department
signs, painting of striping and pavement delineators, furnishing of guardrails
and bridge
rails,
construction of multiuse paths for pedestrian and bicycle traffic as otherwise
provided by this paragraph, and other
major maintenance activities; and, furthermore, the department may by contract
authorize and require any rapid transit authority created by the General
Assembly to plan, design, and construct, at no cost to the department and
subject to the
department́s
review and approval of design and construction, segments of the state highway
system necessary to replace those portions of the system which the rapid transit
authority and the department agree must be relocated in order to avoid conflicts
between the rapid transit
authoritýs
facilities and the state highway system;
and
(B)
The department shall construct multiuse paths separated from the roadway for use
by pedestrian and bicycle traffic along any portion of the state highway system
whenever, on or after the effective date of this subparagraph, such portion of
the state highway system is constructed, reconstructed, or undergoing major
resurfacing, if such portion of the state highway system is not a limited access
road and multiuse paths along such portion of the state highway system are
included in the applicable county or municipal comprehensive
plan;"
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.