Title XXVI, Public Transportation

(1) Any county which has agreed prior to July 1, 1977, by resolution, to use the surplus of the constitutional gas tax to provide a connecting road to a planned interchange on the interstate system shall provide such connecting road.(2) Any surplus which is not otherwise used to …

Effective July 1, 1983, the State Board of Administration shall assume the responsibility for distribution of the counties’ 80-percent share of the constitutional gas tax in the same manner as the 20-percent share is currently distributed pursuant to s. 206.47; however, the State…

(1)(a) In addition to other taxes allowed by law, there may be levied as provided in ss. 206.41(1)(e) and 206.87(1)(c) a 1-cent, 2-cent, 3-cent, 4-cent, 5-cent, or 6-cent local option fuel tax upon every gallon of motor fuel and diesel fuel sold in a county and taxed under the pr…

Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 336.025, for calendar year 1993, the tax authorized in s. 336.025(1)(b) shall be imposed to November 1, 1993, to be effective January 1, 1994. Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 336.025: the county may, prior to September 1, 1993, establish …

The county engineer must be a registered professional engineer or engineering firm qualified to do business in this state. This does not apply to any county engineer who:(1) Was employed on or before June 30, 1967;(2) Was employed on less than a full-time basis; and(3) Was not em…

(1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Transportation continue to expand its current use of recovered materials in its construction programs.(2) The Legislature declares it to be in the public interest to find alternative ways to use certain recyclable mat…

(1) The department shall develop and adopt uniform minimum standards and criteria for the design, construction, and maintenance of all public streets, roads, highways, bridges, sidewalks, curbs and curb ramps, crosswalks, where feasible, bicycle ways, underpasses, and overpasses …

Any bus bench or transit shelter located on a sidewalk within the rights-of-way of any road on the county road system shall be located so as to leave at least 36 inches clearance for pedestrians and persons in wheelchairs. Such clearance shall be measured in a direction perpendic…

Whenever any road on the county road or city street system is repaired, reconstructed, or otherwise altered in a manner that necessitates the closing of one or more traveling lanes of the road for a period of time exceeding 2 hours, the party performing such work shall give notic…

(1) The commissioners are authorized to name and rename streets and roads, except state roads designated by number by the department, lying outside the boundaries of any incorporated municipality.(2) The commissioners are authorized to refuse to approve for recording in accordanc…

The commissioners may establish, locate, change, or discontinue public county roads by resolution.History.—s. 48, ch. 29965, 1955; s. 5, ch. 57-776; s. 72, ch. 84-309.

(1) The commissioners, with respect to property under their control may in their own discretion, and of their own motion, or upon the request of any agency of the state, or of the Federal Government, or upon petition of any person or persons, are hereby authorized and empowered t…

Before any such road shall be closed and vacated, or before any right or interest of the county or public in any land delineated on any recorded map or plat as a road shall be renounced and disclaimed, the commissioners shall hold a public hearing, and shall publish notice thereo…

The act of any commissioners in closing or abandoning any such road, or in renouncing or disclaiming any rights in any land delineated on any recorded map as a road, shall abrogate the easement theretofore owned, held, claimed or used by or on behalf of the public and the title o…

(1)(a) In addition to the authority provided in s. 336.12, the governing body of the county may abandon the roads and rights-of-way dedicated in a recorded residential subdivision plat and simultaneously convey the county’s interest in such roads, rights-of-way, and appurtenant d…

(1) The commissioners may employ labor and provide equipment as may be necessary, except as provided in subsection (4), for constructing and opening of new roads or bridges and repair and maintenance of any existing roads and bridges.(2) It shall be the duty of all persons to who…

(1) The commissioners shall let the work on roads out on contract, in accordance with s. 336.41(4).(2) Such contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, after publication of notice for bids containing specifications furnished by the commissioners in a newspaper publis…

A county or other governmental entity may enter into an agreement with the department to provide for the department to acquire rights-of-way for the county or other governmental entity.History.—s. 110, ch. 84-309; s. 42, ch. 2003-286.

(1) If any bond or interest coupon on a bond issued by a special road and bridge district is not paid within 60 days after it matures, a receiver may be appointed in the same manner as in s. 298.51. The qualifications, duties, and powers of the receiver shall be the same as those…

At any time subsequent to the expiration of 8 years from the creation of a road and bridge district, or after completion of all improvements for which the district was originally created, whichever occurs first, the commissioners may abolish such district upon a majority vote. Ho…

(1) The owner of real property located within both the boundaries of a community development district created under chapter 190 and within the boundaries of a special road and bridge district created by the alternative method of establishing special road and bridge districts prev…

(1) If a county receives a proposal, solicited or unsolicited, from a private entity seeking to construct, extend, or improve a county road or portion thereof, the county may enter into an agreement with the private entity for completion of the road construction project, which ag…