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ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 534 By: Bergstrom of the Senate
and
Frix of the House
An Act relating to state highways; authorizing the
Oklahoma Department of Transport ation to make
additions to state highway systems in c ertain
circumstances; providing circumstances required for
adding highway miles; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as S ection 508 of Title 69, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Department of Transportation shall have the authority t o
make additions to the state highway system without a corresponding
removal of mileage in the following circumstances:
1. The addition of highway miles will improve public safety;
2. There are local, private or other non-state resources
contributed toward t he capital costs of the addition;
3. Prior to the addition of highway miles, the performance
metrics of the regional highway system, developed pursuant to
Section 45.3 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes, are determined by
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the Department of Transportation to be adequate in the strategic
goal areas of:
a. achieving and sustaining less than one percent (1%)
structurally deficient bridges,
b. increasing the percentage of highway lane miles in
good condition,
c. decreasing the miles of rural two-lane roads with
deficient shoulders, as defined in Section 241 of
Title 69 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and
d. decreasing traffic fatalities;
4. The addition of highway m iles can be shown to have a
positive local or regional economic impact;
5. The Department determines that the resources required f or
long term operation and mai ntenance exist; and
6. The addition of highway miles is determined to be for the
benefit of the general public.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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Passed the Senate the 2nd day of March, 2021.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________,
2021.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives