§ 8915.1. Conversion of Interstate 80.
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§ 8915.1. Conversion of Interstate 80.
In order to facilitate vehicular traffic across this Commonwealth, the commission is authorized and empowered to do all of the following:
(1)Convert Interstate 80 to a toll road and maintain and operate it as a toll road.
(2)Construct, reconstruct, widen, expand, extend, maintain and operate Interstate 80 from a point at or near the Ohio border to a point at or near the New Jersey border, together with connecting roads, interchanges, slip ramps, tunnels and bridges.
(3)Issue turnpike revenue bonds, notes or other obligations, payable solely from revenues of the commission, including tolls, or from funds as may be available to the commission for that purpose, to pay the cost of constructing, reconstructing, widening, expanding or extending Interstate 80 or any other costs of Interstate 80 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
(4)Provide quarterly reports and periodic updates regarding significant developments with respect to the conversion of Interstate 80 to the chairman and minority chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman of the Transportation Committee of the House of Representatives. These reports shall include, at a minimum, the status of outstanding discussions with the United States Department of Transportation regarding Interstate 80, the location and construction of tolling-related equipment for Interstate 80, planned capital improvements for Interstate 80 and other information important to implementation of this section.
75c8915.1v
(July 18, 2007, P.L.169, No.44, eff. imd.)
2007 Amendment. Act 44 added section 8915.1.
75c8915.2s