Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Senate Committee to study safety of Route 13 in Northampton and Accomack Counties. [SR-38]
Study; safety of Route 13; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Local Government to study the safety of Route 13 in Northampton and Accomack Counties and to report on safety improvement recommendations.
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Interstate 73; Senate joint subcommittee to be established to study proposed construction. [SR-32]
Study; Interstate 73; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Local Government and the Senate Committee on Transportation to study construction of proposed Interstate 73.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds. [SJR-65]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and other funds established by general law for transportation. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2014, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Interstate Route 73; joint subcommittee to study proposed construction. [SJR-23]
Study; construction of I-73; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study to promote the construction of I-73 in Virginia. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Agreements as to compensation; Commissioner of Highways' decisions to be reasonable, not arbitrary. [SB-664]
Agreements as to compensation. Requires that the Commissioner of Highways' decisions regarding agreements be reasonable and not arbitrary.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge; designating as I81 bridges over Maury River. [SB-612]
Designating the Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge. Designates two bridges over the Maury River in Rockbridge County as the Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Handbills, solicitation of contributions, etc.; distribution on highways. [SB-61]
Distribution of handbills, solicitation of contributions, etc., on highways. Allows localities to adopt ordinances allowing for the solicitation of contributions on highways for organizations granted tax-exempt status under §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Secondary highway system; withdrawal of county from system. [SB-606]
Withdrawal from secondary highway system. Allows lane-mile payments of $12,529 for a county with a charter that borders four cities, which elects to withdraw from the secondary system after June 30, 2014. The bill also allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with such counties that withdraw for traffic control.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Disabled American Veterans Highway; designating as entire length of I495 (Capital Beltway) in Va. [SB-522]
Disabled American Veterans Highway. Designates the entire length of Interstate Route 495 (Capital Beltway) in Virginia the "Disabled American Veterans Highway."
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highway systems; funding. [SB-518]
Funding among highway systems. Includes primary state highway system extensions, the part of the primary highway that runs through a city or town, in the list of highways that receive the 25 percent for reconstruction of deteriorated highways of the amount allocated each year by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The bill also reduces the number of vehicles per day on unpaved roads from 200 to 50 for the unpaved roads that may be considered for five percent of the annual allocation.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; created. [SB-513]
Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission created. Creates the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, which is composed of the chief elected officers of the governing bodies of the 14 localities in Planning District 23, two senators, three delegates, and four nonvoting ex officio members. The bill moves the responsibility for approval of projects and the priority of such projects pursuant to the Hampton Roads Transportation Fund from the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization (HRTPO) to the Hampton Roads
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. [SB-511]
Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts instead of from each of the 9 highway construction districts. The five at-large members and four ex officio members remain unchanged.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Natural gas; incentives for expanded use as transportation fuel, report. [SB-505]
Natural gas; incentives for expanded use as transportation fuel. Establishes financial and regulatory incentives for expanding the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for transportation purposes in the Commonwealth. Vehicles fueled, wholly or partially, by natural gas are authorized to weigh up to 2,000 pounds more than the applicable weight limit, and the bill provides that limits on hauling hazardous materials over a bridge or through a tunnel do not apply to fuel required to propel the vehicle. The bill provides
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Speed limits; maximum limit on nonsurface-treated highways in certain counties. [SB-470]
Maximum speed limit on nonsurface-treated highways. Applies statewide the 35 mph maximum speed limit on nonsurface-treated highways that is currently applied only in Albemarle, Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Montgomery, Nelson, Page, Rappahannock, Warren, and Wythe Counties and in any other county whose governing body adopts an ordinance to do so.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Truck cranes; permits authorizing operation over highways for those that exceed maximum weight. [SB-402]
Overweight permits for truck cranes. Allows the DMV Commissioner and cities and towns to authorize overweight permits for truck cranes.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Loudoun County; VDOT's duties & responsibilities to properly maintain the rural gravel road network. [SB-397]
Rural gravel road network in Loudoun County. Provides specific goals for VDOT's maintenance of the rural gravel road network in Loudoun County.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Rail and Public Transportation, Department of; funding. [SB-298]
Funding of Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Codifies appropriation act language dealing with funding of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Billboard signs; adjustment or relocation. [SB-295]
Adjustment or relocation of billboard signs. Includes the erection of a sound barrier as an action that allows relocation of a billboard sign. The bill also allows a billboard to remain in its original location until the Commissioner of Highways or other condemnor gives notice to its owner that the sign must be removed.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Downtown Tunnel Construction Relief Grant Fund; established. [SB-292]
Downtown Tunnel Construction Relief Grant Fund. Establishes the Downtown Tunnel Construction Relief Grant Fund to provide grants of up to $10,000 to businesses that have suffered economic damage as a result of road closures due to the construction of the Downtown Tunnel Project. The Fund would be administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority. The act has a July 1, 2015, sunset.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Fare enforcement inspectors; appointed to enforce fares for use of mass transit facilities. [SB-264]
Fare enforcement inspectors. Provides for the appointment of fare enforcement inspectors to enforce payment of fares for use of mass transit facilities operated in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia). The bill also provides that failure of a transit user to pay the fare or produce proof of fare payment shall result in a civil penalty of not more than $100.