Urban-Rural Initiative Program
NEW URIP changes under LD 2092, passed as PL 565, signed by the
Governor on 3/27/2002
23 MRSA §1803-B, sub-§1, ¶A, is
amended to read:
A. Rural Road Initiative funds must be distributed as follows.
(1) Funds are distributed at a rate of $600 per year per lane
mile for all rural state aid minor collector roads and all public
roads maintained by a municipality located outside urban compact
areas as defined in section 754, except that funds are distributed
at a rate of $300 per year per lane mile for all seasonal public
roads.
(2) Effective July 1, 2000, funds must be used for capital improvements
as defined by this chapter, or for capital improvements to state
aid minor collector roads as described in subsection 5. Prior
to July 1, 2000, funds may be used only for the maintenance and
improvement of public roads. In municipalities, counties and Indian
reservations in which there are no rural state aid minor collector
roads, funds may also be used for winter highway maintenance,
acquisition of highway maintenance equipment or the construction
of highway maintenance buildings if the governing legislative
body affirmatively votes that its town ways and local bridges
are in sufficiently good condition so as to not require significant
repair or improvement for at least 10 years.
This means that if your town is one of the 132 municipalities with
no State Aid minor collector roads, then your URIP funds can be
used as noted above ONLY if there is a majority vote at Town Meeting
or by the Town Council which states that all the local roads and
bridges in town are in satisfactory condition so as not to require
major work in the next 10 years. (click BELOW for a list)
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Current Documents in PDF Format:
- Listing
of towns with no State Aid -Minor Collector Highway
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PDF Document, please contact Fred Hutchinson at the following e-mail
address: fred.hutchinson@maine.gov
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