2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 313 - PRIMARY ROADS
313.4 - DISBURSEMENT OF FUND.

        313.4  DISBURSEMENT OF FUND.
         1. a.  Said primary road fund is hereby appropriated for and
      shall be used in the establishment, construction, and maintenance of
      the primary road system, including the drainage, grading, surfacing,
      construction of bridges and culverts, the elimination or improvement
      of railroad crossings, the acquiring of additional right-of-way, all
      other expense incurred in the construction and maintenance of said
      primary road system and the maintenance and housing of the
      department.
         b.  The department may expend moneys from the fund for dust
      control on a secondary road or municipal street within a municipal
      street system when there is a notable increase in traffic on the
      secondary road or municipal street due to closure of a road by the
      department for purposes of establishing, constructing, or maintaining
      a primary road.
         2.  Such fund is also appropriated and shall be used for the
      construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of state
      institutional roads and state park roads and bridges on such roads
      and roads and bridges on community college property as provided in
      subsection 11 of section 307A.2, for restoration of secondary roads
      used as primary road detours and for compensation of counties for
      such use, for restoration of municipal streets so used and for
      compensation of cities for such use, and for the payments required in
      section 307.45.
         3.  There is appropriated from funds appropriated to the
      department which would otherwise revert to the primary road fund
      pursuant to the provisions of the Act appropriating the funds or
      chapter 8, an amount sufficient to pay the increase in salaries,
      which increase is not otherwise provided for by the general assembly
      in an appropriation bill, resulting from the annual review of the
      merit pay plan as provided in section 8A.413, subsection 3.  The
      appropriation herein provided shall be in effect from the effective
      date of the revised pay plan to the end of the fiscal biennium in
      which it becomes effective.
         4. a.  Such fund is appropriated and shall be used by the
      department to provide energy and for the operation and maintenance of
      those primary road freeway lighting systems within the corporate
      boundaries of cities including energy and maintenance costs
      associated with interchange conflict lighting on existing and future
      freeway and expressway segments constructed to interstate standards.

         b.  The costs of serving freeway lighting for each utility
      providing the service shall be determined by the utilities division
      of the department of commerce, and rates for such service shall be no
      higher than necessary to recover these costs.  Funds received under
      the provisions of this subsection shall be used solely for the
      operation and maintenance of a freeway lighting system.
         5.  During the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1990, and ending June
      30, 1991, and each subsequent fiscal year, the department shall spend
      from the primary road fund an amount of not less than thirty million
      dollars for the network of commercial and industrial highways.
         6. a.  A transfer of jurisdiction fund is created in the
      office of the treasurer of state under the control of the department.
      For each fiscal year in the period beginning July 1, 2003, and ending
      June 30, 2013, there is transferred from the primary road fund to the
      transfer of jurisdiction fund one and seventy-five hundredths percent
      of the moneys credited to the primary road fund pursuant to section
      312.2, subsection 1, paragraph "a".
         b.  For each fiscal year in the period beginning July 1, 2003,
      and ending June 30, 2013, there is appropriated the following
      percentages of the moneys deposited in the transfer of jurisdiction
      fund for the fiscal year for the following purposes:
         (1)  Seventy-five percent of the moneys shall be apportioned among
      the counties and cities that assume jurisdiction of primary roads
      pursuant to section 306.8A.  Such apportionment shall be made based
      upon the specific construction needs identified for the specific
      counties and cities in the transfer of jurisdiction report on file
      with the department pursuant to section 306.8A.  All funds, including
      any interest or other earnings on the funds, received by a county
      from the transfer of jurisdiction fund shall be deposited in the
      secondary road fund of the county to be used only for the maintenance
      and construction of roads under the county's jurisdiction.  All funds
      received by a city from the transfer of jurisdiction fund shall be
      used only for the maintenance and construction of roads under the
      city's jurisdiction.
         (2)  Twenty-two and one-half percent of the moneys shall be
      deposited in the secondary road fund.
         (3)  Two and one-half percent of the moneys shall be deposited in
      the street construction fund of the cities.
         7.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June
      30, 2014, and each subsequent fiscal year, there is transferred the
      following percentages of the moneys credited to the primary road fund
      pursuant to section 312.2, subsection 1, paragraph "a", to the
      following funds:
         a.  One and five hundred seventy-five thousandths percent to
      the secondary road fund.
         b.  One hundred seventy-five thousandths of one percent to the
      street construction fund of the cities.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, § 4690; C27, 31, 35, § 4755-b4; C39, § 4755.04; C46, 50,
      54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 313.4] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1019, § 6; 90 Acts, ch 1253, § 120; 92 Acts, ch 1163,
      § 74; 92 Acts, ch 1238, § 29; 99 Acts, ch 118, §1; 2000 Acts, ch
      1017, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 144, §8; 2003 Acts, ch 145, § 243; 2008 Acts,
      ch 1031, §110; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §236, 237
         Referred to in § 312.2, 312.3, 312.4, 313.5