2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §48-5141  Regional bus system

A. The board shall establish and operate a regional bus system. The monies distributed under section 28-6305, subsection B shall be spent for incremental increases in a regional bus system and for community funded transportation services including dial-a-ride programs and special needs transportation services and shall not be used to supplant any existing sources of monies currently being used in operating an existing bus system. The monies shall only be spent for community funded transportation services including dial-a-ride programs and special needs transportation services and to establish and operate a regional bus system, including extending existing bus routes into regional routes, adding new regional routes, increasing the service on existing regional routes and capital expenditures.

B. The board may contract with a public agency or with a person on the terms and conditions the board finds in its best interest to operate a regional bus system.