177.979 Cooperative agreements between Department of Highways and transporters of coal in vehicles exceeding maximum weight limits on state-maintained system. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 2 177.979 Cooperative agreements between Department of Highways and transporters of coal in vehicles exceeding maximum weight limits on state-
maintained system. (1) Any person engaged in the mining, processing, transporting or sale of coal that provides for the transportation of coal in vehicles exceeding the maximum weight
limits on the state-maintained system shall enter into a cooperative agreement with
the Department of Highways, or give bond for damages as provided by KRS
189.271, if a road to be used is not part of the extended weight coal or coal by-
products haul road system. However, if a resolution issued pursuant to KRS
177.9771(9) on a road with a maximum allowable gross weight of eighty thousand
(80,000) pounds is approved by the Transportation Cabinet, a cooperative
agreement shall not be required. Such cooperative agreements shall provide for an
equitable apportionment of the incremental costs for design, maintenance,
construction, or reconstruction of those roads and bridges, except those roads and
bridges which are part of the federal interstate highway system, resulting from the
transportation of coal by trucks transporting coal in excess of the maximum weight
limits on the state-maintained system and covered by the cooperative agreement.
Nothing contained herein shall effect the continuing validity of any existing
agreement. (2) Notwithstanding KRS Chapter 143 the total tax contributions from any person entering into a cooperative agreement, as specified in this section, shall not exceed,
in the aggregate, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per mile per year on
those roads covered by the cooperative agreement, but shall equal a minimum of
one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per motor vehicle hauling coal over
those cooperative road segments over three (3) miles in length, but such
contribution shall not exceed ten cents ($0.10) per ton of coal hauled on cooperative
roads per year from an individual coal operator unless otherwise agreed to by the
operator. The Transportation Cabinet may allow any person, under the cooperative
agreement, to provide for the design, approved maintenance, construction, or
reconstruction provided for in subsection (1) of this section in accordance with
guidelines or standards prescribed by the cabinet. In the event any person exceeds
his annual total tax contribution as authorized under a cooperative agreement, such
person may petition the commissioner of vehicle regulation for a carry over for
future years liability. All funds collected pursuant to this section shall be expended
on those roads covered by the cooperative agreement. (3) Notwithstanding any provision of KRS 177.976 to 177.981, the Commonwealth shall not be relieved of expending its normal routine maintenance on all roads
covered by the cooperative agreements. (4) Any person who entered into a cooperative agreement may terminate it upon submitted written notice to the Department of Highways. (5) If the person requesting termination of the cooperative agreement has reported to the Transportation Cabinet that fifty thousand (50,000) or more tons of coal have
been transported over the road covered by the cooperative agreement, the
Transportation Cabinet shall immediately, by official order or emergency Page 2 of 2 administrative regulation, add the road segment to the list of roads currently
comprising the extended weight coal or coal by-products haul road system. Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 236, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts
ch. 498, sec. 3, effective April 1, 1987. -- Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 373, sec. 8,
effective July 13, 1984. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/94). Pursuant to KRS 7.136(1)(e), a reference to KRS 186.057 (repealed by 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 498, sec. 8) has been
deleted from subsection (3) of this statute.