Title 28, Transportation

A. The regional planning agency in the county shall establish a transportation policy committee consisting of the following members: 1. Eighteen members of the regional planning agency, including one member of the state transportation board who represents the county, one member o…

A. Beginning in 2010 and every fifth year thereafter, the auditor general shall conduct a performance audit, as defined in section 41-1278, of the plan and projects scheduled for funding during the next five years. B. With respect to light rail systems, the audit shall consider t…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Enhancement" means an addition that exceeds generally accepted engineering or design standards for the specific type of facility. 2. "Plan" means the comprehensive, performance-based, multimodal and coordinated regional …

A. The regional planning agency in the county shall develop and adopt a plan. The plan shall be multimodal and shall be developed in cooperation with state and local public transportation authorities and operators and in coordination with the department. The regional planning age…

A. In a county with a population of three million or more persons, beginning fiscal year 2026-2027, the regional public transportation authority, in coordination with the regional planning agency, shall conduct a farebox recovery audit of operating costs and revenues for the prev…

A. In a county with a population of five hundred thousand persons or less, the officer collecting transportation excise tax monies pursuant to section 42-6107 shall immediately transfer the monies to the state treasurer. The state treasurer shall deposit the monies in a fund desi…

A. Each month the state treasurer shall distribute the monies in the county's regional area road fund to the individual county and to the individual cities and towns in the county in the manner that is determined by the board of supervisors before the election and that is describ…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires or except as otherwise provided by statute, "highway user revenues" means all monies received in this state from licenses, taxes, penalties, interest and fees authorized by the following: 1. Chapters 2, 7, 8 and 15 of this ti…

A. The director shall file with the secretary of state a permanent record that contains a list of all highway user revenues collected, received or retained in this state in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. The list shall separately identify all sources of highway user revenu…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Arterial street or highway" means a street or highway used primarily for through traffic in such manner that vehicular traffic from intersecting streets and highways is required by law to stop or yield before entering or…

A. Except as provided by section 42-5033.01, the population as shown by the decennial census as certified by the United States bureau of the census shall be used as the basis for the apportionment of monies pursuant to this article on July 1 in the year after the decennial census…

A. The officer collecting all highway user revenues, as defined in section 28-6501 and in article IX, section 14, Constitution of Arizona, and all fees, penalties and fines collected under sections 28-1101, 28-1103, 28-1105 and 28-1521 shall transfer the revenues to the departmen…

Not later than June 15 of each fiscal year, the department shall allocate and transfer $2,500,000 of revenues from the Arizona highway user revenue fund to the state match advantage for rural transportation fund established by section 28-339.

For each fiscal year, the department of transportation shall allocate and transfer monies in the Arizona highway user revenue fund to the department of public safety for funding a portion of highway patrol costs in eight installments in each of the first eight months of a fiscal …

A. Each fiscal year the department shall allocate and the state treasurer shall distribute revenues of the Arizona highway user revenue fund remaining after the distribution provided in sections 28-6534 and 28-6537 as follows: 1. To the state highway fund, fifty and one-half perc…

Each month the state treasurer shall distribute all revenues credited to the Arizona highway user revenue fund pursuant to the proportions prescribed in section 28-6538, subsection A as follows: 1. Revenues allocated to the counties shall be further distributed to each individual…

The percentages, proportions, allocations and distributions prescribed by this article are subject to the following limitations: 1. If the total highway user revenues derived and credited to the Arizona highway user revenue fund equal or exceed the total highway user revenues der…

A. If the department determines that any of the amounts allocated and distributed as provided in this chapter during the preceding twenty-four months are incorrect, the department shall adjust future monthly allocations to correct any overages or shortages as provided in this sec…

Upon notice from the director, the state treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the Arizona highway user revenue fund in obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States or any of the senior debt of its agencies, sponsored agencies, corporations, sponsored corporations …

A. The board of supervisors may establish, alter or abandon a highway in the county and other legal subdivisions and acquire real property for these purposes by purchase, donation, dedication, condemnation or other lawful means. B. A highway in the county or any other legal subdi…

A. On filing the petition prescribed in section 28-6701, the board of supervisors shall: 1. Direct the county engineer to make a survey of the proposed highway and to file with the board a report of the proposed highway and a map as surveyed that shows the legal subdivision of th…

A. At the hearing provided for in section 28-6702, the board of supervisors: 1. Shall consider the feasibility, advantages and necessity of the highway sought to be established. 2. If the board determines the proposed highway is a public necessity, may approve the establishment o…

A. The county attorney of the county in which a highway is to be established shall file in superior court in the county in which the land is located a condemnation action pursuant to section 12-1116 in the name of the county if all of the following conditions exist: 1. The board …

A. The board of supervisors may spend public monies for maintenance of public roads and streets other than legally designated state and county highways located without the limits of an incorporated city or town. Before spending public monies under this section, the roads or stree…

A. The board of supervisors or the governing body of a city or town may designate a public road within its jurisdiction as a primitive road as prescribed in this section. B. Neither a county, city or town nor its employees are liable for damages or injuries resulting from the use…

A. The part of a highway located in an incorporated city or town may be constructed, improved or maintained through cooperation under this article in the same manner as if it were located outside an incorporated city or town. B. As part of the cooperation, the board of supervisor…

The streets of an unincorporated town are considered public highways and are under the control of the board of supervisors of the county in which the town is located. The board may designate which streets in the unincorporated towns are considered public highways and may give app…

The board of supervisors may vacate and abandon streets, alleys and avenues located outside the boundaries of incorporated cities and towns shown on recorded plats as dedicated to the public or to which the public or county may have received title by deed, in the same manner and …

A. If deemed necessary, the board of supervisors may install and construct cattle guards on county roads or may authorize private persons who own or who are in possession of real estate located adjacent to county roads to install and construct cattle guards on county roads. B. Th…

A. A railroad or street railway shall not be constructed along or on any portion of a highway improved under this article, except a crossing authorized by the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors shall not grant a franchise for the construction of a railroad or street r…

A. For road purposes the board of supervisors may levy a real and personal property tax of not more than twenty-five cents per one hundred dollars of property in the county as valued for tax purposes. The board of supervisors shall levy and collect the tax at the same time and in…

A. Except as provided in subsection G of this section, in a county with a population of two hundred fifty thousand persons or more as determined by the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532, bids for all items …

The bonds of a county that are authorized and issued for construction or improvement of public highways may be issued by complying with this article. The board of supervisors may, and on the petition of fifteen per cent of the qualified electors of the county, the board of superv…

A. If the contemplated bond issue is two million dollars or more, the board of supervisors shall appoint a county highway commission consisting of three members. If the contemplated bond issue is less than two million dollars, the board of supervisors shall be ex officio county h…

A. The county highway commission shall: 1. Investigate situations with respect to highways that in the board's judgment the greatest public necessity and convenience require highways to be constructed or improved. 2. Prepare a map of the highways that shows the location of, condi…

A. At least once every six months, the commission shall make and file with the board a detailed statement showing: 1. The amount of monies in the highway improvement fund at the time of its last statement. 2. The amount of monies received since its last statement and the purpose …

The county treasurer shall pay from the general fund of the county the traveling and other incidental expenses of county highway commission members that are actually and necessarily incurred and all other expenses incurred either by the board of supervisors or by the county highw…

A. In conducting the election called under section 28-6743, the board of supervisors may form road bond election precincts by consolidating not more than six general election precincts into one road bond election precinct. The board of supervisors shall appoint one inspector, two…

A. The board of supervisors shall: 1. Sell bonds issued under this article in the same manner as other county bonds. 2. Deposit the proceeds in the highway improvement fund to be paid out by the county treasurer only on order of the county highway commission and to be used only f…

A. The county highway commission shall supervise and direct the work for which the bonds are issued under this article. B. As soon as the proceeds of the bond sale are deposited in the treasury, the county highway commission shall: 1. Prepare plans, specifications and profiles fo…

A. The county highway commission may enter into cooperative contracts and agreements for construction of roads with the United States or any of its departments or agencies pursuant to an act of Congress. B. The provisions of law relating to methods of spending monies derived from…

The board of supervisors may construct and maintain bridges across streams whether wholly or partly within or outside the corporate limits of an incorporated city or town.

A. On filing a petition signed by a majority of the taxpayers of the county, the board of supervisors may contract for the county with a railroad company for the construction and maintenance of bridges across streams to be used jointly by the railroad company and the public. The …

For the purposes of this article, "toll road" includes trails for the passage of saddle and pack animals and foot passengers, as well as roads designed for the passage of vehicles, if the trails have been built in mountainous or precipitous places or in other places where the bui…

A. A person who desires to construct a toll road, bridge or ferry within one or more counties shall publish a notice in a newspaper that is published in each county, once each week for six successive weeks. The notice shall state: 1. The type and character of the road. 2. The ter…

A. If it appears to the board of supervisors that the public interest will be promoted by the application provided in section 28-6802, it may grant the application in whole or in part or as revised. B. The board of supervisors shall not grant an application if any of the followin…