Title 54, Highways, Bridges And Ferries

The county clerk shall make out a list of the propositions reported by the county mayor, and give it to the sheriff, who shall immediately advertise at the different fords proposed to be cleared, or at some public place near the fords, that contracts will be given to bidders at t…

Each contractor shall return to the August session of the county legislative body, or some subsequent session, a certificate, with two (2) responsible freeholders signed as witnesses, that the contractor has complied with the law set forth in § 54-11-103. Then the county mayor sh…

Bridges shall be made by the overseer and the overseer's assistants, through swamps and over small runs and creeks, for which purpose, as well as for making causeways, the overseer may cut poles and other necessary timber, without incurring any penalty.

Bridges that cannot be built by the overseer and the overseer's assistants shall be a county charge, and the county legislative body shall make a levy on the taxables to raise money for the purpose, and shall contract and agree for building, keeping, and repairing the bridges.

When a bridge is necessary over any creek or river that divides one county from another, the legislative body of each county shall join in an agreement for building, keeping, and repairing it, and the charge shall be defrayed by both counties in proportion to the number of taxabl…

Every contract, agreement, and order for bridges shall bind the county that makes or enters into it.

It is the duty of the county legislative bodies, in letting out all contracts for the erection of bridges, to require that they be made secure, with good and substantial railing of the height of three feet (3′).

In addition to the powers vested in and exercised by county legislative bodies over public roads and bridges, the county legislative bodies respectively are empowered, the same being a county purpose, to build a bridge or bridges over and across any stream or river running throug…

(a) The bridge or bridges shall be paid for by special tax, not to exceed, in any year, twenty cents (20¢) on the one hundred dollars' ($100) worth of property, to be levied by the county legislative body annually on all taxable property of the county, until the bridge or bridges…

Should it, in the opinion of the county legislative body, appear that the cost of the bridge or bridges will exceed the amounts raised by taxation the county legislative body sees as proper to levy during the time the bridge or bridges are being constructed, the excess may be pro…

(a) Whenever, in the opinion of the county legislative body, it will be best so to do, it may submit to a vote of the people of the county the question of whether any bridge shall be built or not. (b) The county legislative body shall direct the county election commission to hold…

(a) If a petition filed under § 54-13-103 is for building a bridge or causeway at the expense of the county, the county legislative body shall, at the same session when it is presented, appoint three (3) commissioners to receive proposals for the work, which proposals shall clear…

Of the proposals reported, the county legislative body may receive and accept that which seems to it best; and shall then direct the work to progress under regulations and securities it deems proper.

(a) Upon being notified that the work is completed, the county legislative body shall appoint three (3) commissioners, unconnected either by affinity or consanguinity with the contractor, to examine and report upon the work. (b) The county legislative body, if satisfied that the …

The county legislative body shall fill all vacancies on any board of town, or bridge commissioners, and any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall execute the same bond, if a bond is required, take the same oath, and have the same powers and emoluments, as the predecessor.

Public bridges and causeways on public roads, erected by order of the county legislative body, shall be paid for by a tax on polls and other taxables, to be set by the county legislative body, and not to exceed, in any year, the amount of the state tax.

The moneys shall be collected by the county trustee and be kept by the county trustee subject to the order of the county legislative body, which order, together with the receipt of the person in whose favor it is made, shall be a sufficient voucher for the county trustee in settl…

A county legislative body is empowered, the same being a county purpose, to build, or assist in building, or in obtaining within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation that is the county seat of the county, a toll-free bridge across any river running through and dividing…

(a) The bridge shall be located upon or near and convenient to a public highway traversing the county, due regard being had both to the advantages of location and convenience of the citizens of the county having to pass over the bridge. (b) The bridge shall be forever free to all…

(a) The bridge shall be paid for by a special tax, not to exceed, in any year, the amount of the state tax, to be levied by the county legislative body, annually, on all the taxables of the county. (b) Nothing in this section shall prevent the county legislative body from paying …

(a) The county, acting through the county legislative body, has the power to unite with any municipal corporation in the erection and regulation of bridges for public travel and traffic, over any stream, running by or through the municipality, upon terms agreed upon by the county…

For the purpose of providing funds to erect bridges, the county and municipality have the power to issue bonds pursuant to title 9, chapter 21.

The county and municipal corporation erecting a bridge as provided in §§ 54-11-222 and 54-11-223 have the power to fix the tolls to be charged and collected and provide for the collection of the tolls, and make all necessary rules and regulations for the keeping up and management…

The county legislative body has full power, at any session of the county legislative body, when, in its opinion, the public good demands it, to appoint commissioners, who shall have power to contract for, and have completed, any repairs of bridges, levees or causeways, upon any p…

It is the duty of the commissioners under § 54-11-225 to report to the first session of the county legislative body after the completion of any work that they may have had under contract, which report shall set forth the kind of repairs that have been made, by whom made, and for …

Upon the filing of the report of the commissioners, it shall be the duty of the county legislative body to order the repairs to be paid as other claims against the county.

A county is empowered, through its county legislative body, to establish free public ferries over any stream running through or bounding the county, at a point or points as may be determined, and to purchase and provide all necessary equipment, boats, etc., and employ labor requi…

(a) It is lawful for any two (2) or more counties separated by a stream, navigable or unnavigable, to unite in the erection, establishment, and operation of a ferry over the stream, each of the counties, if not more than two (2), paying one-half (½) of all the expenses incurred i…

(a) The counties are authorized to appropriate money for the purposes set forth in §§ 54-11-301 — 54-11-303. (b) The counties may place the oversight of all the work and improvement under the county road commissioners or under the road commissioner for the district in which the f…

The county legislative body at any session may select and fix the salary of the ferry operators for ferries established under this part; however, in cases of vacancy occasioned by death or permanent disability, the county mayors are authorized to name a successor to serve until t…

(a) The county legislative body has the power to make appropriations of money for the establishment of ferries and ferry roads on any of the navigable streams of this state, and also for the construction of all proper and necessary roads, leading across the river bottom lands, an…

(1) The county legislative body has the power to: (1) Make appropriations of money, from time to time, to pay persons for operating the ferries, which they may establish;(2) Appoint one (1) or more persons as commissioner, to contract for the building of ferry boats, construction…

(a) The commissioner of transportation has the power to acquire by donation, purchase, or exercise of the power of eminent domain under the general law the assets of any ferry service business operating as a connection between state roads and is authorized to operate the business…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), no person shall charge as ferriage on any stream on any highway included in the state highway system or maintained in whole or part by the department of transportation more than the rate fixed as follows:Automobile and passenger…