2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 177 - STATE AND FEDERAL HIGHWAYS -- LIMITED ACCESS FACILITIES -- TURNPIKES -- ROAD BONDS -- BILLBOARDS -- RECYCLERS 177.410 General powers of Department of Highways as to turnpike projects.
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177.410 General powers of Department of Highways as to turnpike projects.
The department is hereby authorized and empowered:
(1) To construct, reconstruct, maintain, repair, operate, regulate and police
turnpike projects at such locations within the Commonwealth as may be
determined by the department and approved by the Governor;
(2) To acquire sites abutting on any turnpike project, and to construct or contract
for the construction of buildings and appurtenances for service stations,
garages, restaurants and other services and to lease the same to others for
any of such purposes (or, if leases cannot be made on acceptable terms, to
operate any and all of the same) in such manner and under such terms as the
department may determine;
(3) To issue turnpike revenue bonds of the Commonwealth, payable solely from
the tolls, revenues and other funds pledged for their payment, for the purpose
of paying all or any part of the cost of any one (1) or more turnpike projects,
and to refund any of its bonds, all as provided in KRS 177.390 to 177.570;
(4) To fix and revise from time to time and charge and collect tolls for transit over
each turnpike project constructed by it;
(5) To combine for financing purposes any two (2) or more turnpike projects;
(6) To establish rules and regulations for the use of any turnpike project;
(7) To acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property in the exercise of its
powers and the performance of its duties under KRS 177.390 to 177.570,
without reference to KRS Chapter 56;
(8) To designate the locations and establish, limit and control such points of
ingress and egress from each turnpike project as the department may
determine to be necessary or desirable in the judgment of the department to
insure the proper operation and maintenance of such project, and to prohibit
entrance to such project from any point or points not so designated;
(9) To make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to
the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under KRS
177.390 to 177.570;
(10) To employ consulting engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction and
financial experts, superintendents, managers, and such other employees and
agents as may be necessary in its judgment, and to fix their compensation;
(11) To receive and accept from any federal agency grants for or in aid of the
construction of any turnpike project, and to receive and accept aid or
contributions from any source of either money, property, labor or other things of
value, to be held, used and applied only for the purposes for which such grants
and contributions may be made;
(12) To expend any funds provided under the authority of KRS 177.390 to 177.570
in advertising the facilities and services of a turnpike project or projects to the
traveling public; and
(13) To do all acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers
expressly granted in KRS 177.390 to 177.570.
Effective:March 25, 1960
History: Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 174, sec. 3, effective March 25, 1960. --
Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 4.
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