2005 Vermont Code - § 5089. — Planning

§ 5089. Planning

(a) By January 31, 1996, all public transit systems shall have completed a short-range public transit plan. In the meantime, the agency of transportation may continue to provide funding for capital, statewide operating and new services.

(b) The short-range public transit plans must be coordinated with the efforts of the regional planning commission under the transportation plan.

(c) The agency of transportation's public transit plan for the state shall be updated no less frequently than every five years so as to include, and incorporate the public transportation elements of regional plans that have not been disapproved under the provisions of chapter 117 of this title. Regional plans, together with the agency of transportation's public transit plan shall function to coordinate the provision of public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit regional public transit services, in order to ensure effective local, regional and statewide delivery of services. (Added 1989, No. 262 (Adj. Sess.); amended 1993, No. 211 (Adj. Sess.), § 17, eff. June 17, 1994; 2001, No. 64, § 18, eff. June 16, 2001.)