2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 13a - Highways and Bridges
Chapter 239 - Tolls
Section 13a-162b - Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund.

(a) There is established and created a fund to be known as the “Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund”. Such fund may contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in such fund and shall be held by the State Treasurer separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Investment earnings credited to the assets of such fund shall become part of the assets of such fund. Any balance remaining in such fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in such fund for the fiscal year next succeeding.

(b) The State Treasurer shall apply the resources in the Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund, upon their receipt, first, to pay or provide for the payment of any cost associated with the removal of toll booths and the reconstruction of the toll plazas on such parkways.

(c) Any remaining resources of said fund shall be applied and expended for the maintenance and repair of such parkways.

(P.A. 86-391, S. 7, 9–12; P.A. 87-453, S. 1, 2; P.A. 91-407, S. 15, 42.)

History: P.A. 87-453 amended Subsec. (d) by changing the date from which funds collected from the tolls on the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways are to be credited to the Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund from July 1, 1987, to July 2, 1987, and by requiring the treasurer to credit to such fund an amount equal to the amount received from such tolls during the period from April 1, 1987, to July 2, 1987, inclusive; P.A. 91-407 deleted Subsecs. (a), (b) and (d) re collection of tolls and the removal of toll plazas on the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways, relettering remaining Subsecs. accordingly.