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Chapter 68 ROADS AND BRIDGES
Article 5 COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP ROADS
- 68-501. County engineer, appointment, qualifications, approval; termination of appointment, when.
- 68-502. Duties of county engineer.
- 68-503. Joint county engineer districts; employment of engineer.
- 68-504. Office, assistants, supplies and clerical help for county or district engineer.
- 68-505. Bond of engineer.
- 68-506. Classification and designation of roads in noncounty unit road system counties.
- 68-506a. City connecting link in county highway; city tax levy and bonds.
- 68-506b. Same; validation of certain acts of cities; letting of contracts; change of route; eminent domain.
- 68-506c. Same; apportionment of costs.
- 68-506d. Same; city to maintain roads.
- 68-506e
- 68-506f. City connecting links in county highway system; agreements for maintenance; compensation or maintenance by county.
- 68-506g. Designating certain roads located in and out of city as part of county system; improvement and maintenance of.
- 68-507
- 68-508. Maps of county roads; filing by county engineer for correction and approval.
- 68-509. Elimination of grade crossings; division of costs between railroad and county; eminent domain; publication notice; appeal from award; warning signals.
- 68-510 to 68-515
- 68-515a
- 68-515b. Adoption of county road unit system; procedure.
- 68-516. Classification of highways in county unit road counties.
- 68-516a. County unit system; payment over and use of township funds.
- 68-516b. Same; delivery of machinery and equipment; appraisement; expenditures within township; assumption of township contracts.
- 68-516c. Same; issuance of county no-fund warrants, when.
- 68-516d
- 68-516e. County unit system; payments to county from surplus in township general fund; use.
- 68-517. Abandonment of county road unit system; election; contracts.
- 68-518. Same; petition for election.
- 68-518a, 68-518b
- 68-518c. Tax levies by townships in noncounty unit counties; limitation; petition for election.
- 68-519
- 68-520. County road work by or without contract; machinery and equipment; plans and specifications to be filed.
- 68-521. Letting of certain contracts; plans and specifications; publication notice; bids, surety; award; bond of contractor; duty of county attorney; inspection by engineer; roads damaged or destroyed by disaster.
- 68-522. Itemized bills for county road work, construction or repairs.
- 68-523. Township board of highway commissioners.
- 68-524. Same; meetings.
- 68-525. Township board of highway commissioners; records and accounts; compensation.
- 68-526. Duties of township board; plans, materials and equipment; traffic-control devices and signs.
- 68-527. Maintenance, improvement and inspection of roads on county or township lines.
- 68-527a. Settlement of disputes over maintenance, improvement or inspection of roads on county or township lines; district courts; appeal.
- 68-528
- 68-529. Deflection of road on county, township or city line; division of cost.
- 68-530. Township road overseer; assistants; trustee as overseer in certain counties; repair and improvement work on township roads; limitation; compensation.
- 68-531. Same; compensation; bond; tenure.
- 68-532. Letting township contracts.
- 68-533
- 68-534. Dragging township roads; patrolman; compensation; penalties for unlawful acts.
- 68-535
- 68-536. Township roads; use of tax moneys.
- 68-537
- 68-538. Reports of township overseer.
- 68-539. Reports of the township clerk.
- 68-540. Reports by county engineers or road supervisors.
- 68-541. Forms for accounts and reports.
- 68-542. Meetings of county and township road officials; compensation.
- 68-543. In counties under county unit road system; culverts over ditches in front of private property; costs by county or city; additional culverts or new entrances; costs to owner; procedures; penalty.
- 68-543a. In counties not under county united road system; culverts over ditches in front of private property; costs; additional culverts or new entrances; procedures; penalty.
- 68-544. Tunnels under roads by landowners; approval; costs.
- 68-545. Unlawful obstructions, excavations, removal of materials, dumping trash or other materials or plowing of roads; penalty; payment of cost to restore.
- 68-546
- 68-547. Highways subject to act[*].
- 68-548. Penalties for violations by officers.
- 68-549. Penalties for violations by individuals.
- 68-550. Continuance of special laws.
- 68-551. Mail route inspections; repair.
- 68-552. Same; act supplemental.
- 68-553. Uniform standard specifications for lumber and timber products for highway purposes.
- 68-554. Carload lots; engineer's specifications to bidders; certificate of inspection; affidavit as to preservative treatment.
- 68-555. Unlawful purchases.
- 68-556. Competitive bids required for carload purchases; proposal forms; time.
- 68-557. Penalty for noncompliance.
- 68-558, 68-559
- 68-559a. Roads and bridges, construction and reconstruction; tax levy, use of proceeds; extension of period for levy; protest petition and election.
- 68-559b. Same; expenditures.
- 68-559c. Same; federal or state aid.
- 68-560. Certain townships may turn over maintenance, repair and construction of roads to county; election; resolution; petition; abandonment.
- 68-561. Same; procedure upon adoption of act; tax levies; use of machinery.
- 68-562, 68-563
- 68-564
- 68-565
- 68-566 to 68-569
- 68-570
- 68-571
- 68-572. Intergovernmental agreements for road construction and maintenance; county, city and township.
- 68-573. Certain counties over 175,000; adoption of master highway development plan; preliminary plans and specifications, approval, filing, cost, how paid.
- 68-574. Same; notice of filing of plans; adoption of master development plan; resolution, contents; publication; election.
- 68-575. Same; form of ballot.
- 68-576. Same; procedure when plan approved; application of 68-704.
- 68-577. Same; issuance of bonds; limitations.
- 68-578, 68-579
- 68-580. Designation of streets and roads as arterial highways; definitions.
- 68-581. Same; primary arterial highways; designation and financing.
- 68-581a. Same; use of moneys received from special city and county highway fund by certain cities; purpose.
- 68-582. Designation of secondary arterial highways, when; cooperative financing; agreement; use of funds.
- 68-583. Same; acquisition of lands for rights of way; costs.
- 68-584. Secondary arterial highways; issuance of bonds to pay costs; election, when.
- 68-585. Same; feasibility studies by boards; costs, how paid.
- 68-586. Counties between 130,000 and 170,000; highway bonds; election.
- 68-587. Same; bond debt limitation.
- 68-588. Same; construction contracts; standards.
- 68-589. Special highway improvement fund; definitions.
- 68-590. Same; fund provided; transfers; budget effect.
- 68-591. General county rural highway system; procedure for adoption; election required.
- 68-592. Classifications of highways; definitions.
- 68-593. Procedure upon adoption; payment of funds by townships to county treasurer; use; duties of treasurer.
- 68-594. Same; transfer of equipment and road machinery.
- 68-595. Same; surplus in general fund of township; payment to county treasurer, when.
- 68-596. County rural highway system; tax levy, use of proceeds; election required.
- 68-597. Procedure upon adoption; abandonment of system.
- 68-598. Same; petition for election.
- 68-599
- 68-5,100. County roads; construction and maintenance; tax levy, use of proceeds; election required.
- 68-5,101. County roads and bridges; tax levies, use of proceeds.
- 68-5,102. Declaration of minimum maintenance roads; procedure; posting of road; limitation of tort liability.
- 68-5,103. Road improvements in counties over 300,000; bonds; election; limitation.
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