East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22

AAA ES2 yin hOAOS AMI
HIGHWAYS, and read first
time February z, 1919.
A BILL
For an Act to provide for the
construction of roads and
highways in the State of
Oregon; to provide for the is
suance of bonds by the State
of Oregon to carry out the
purposes of this Act; to au-
thorize the State Highway
Commission to take such ac-
ton and perform such duties
as may be necessary to meet
the requirements of this
Act; to designate and auth
orize the construction of GER
tain hard-surfaced high
ways, and other roads; to re-
adopt the road system out
lined in Chapter 423 of the
General Laws of Oregon for
1917; to designate certain
funds and sources of reve-
nues as constituting the
General Road Fund, and pro-
viding for disbursements
therefrom; to constitute and
provide a fund to be known
as the yearly State highway
sinking fund, and to provide
for its disbursement; to pro-
vide for the letting of con-
tracts for the construction,
paving, betterment and
maintenance of roads and
highways; to authorize coun-
ties to bid and enter into con-
tracts for road construction
work in the respective coun-
ties; to authorize the High
way Commission to construct
the highways herein design
ated, by contract or by force
account; to provide for CO.
operation with the Federal
Government for road con-
struction; to define ''hard-
surfaced highway" to pro-
vide for declaring an emer-
gency..
Be It Enacted by the People of
the State of Oregon:
Section 1. State Highway
Fund.-The State Highway
Fund shall hereafter consist of
all moneys and revenues deriv-
ed under and by virtue of
Chapter 423, General Laws of
Oregon, 1917; under and by
virtue of Chapter IT'S, General
Laws of Oregon 1917; under
and by virtue of Chapter $780,
General Laws of Oregon 1913;
from the moneys and revenues
accruing from the one-fourth-
mill tax as provided in Chapter
237, General Laws of Oregon
1917; from all moneys and
revenues accruing from the
of motor vehicles and
.hauffeurs and by law author
zed and directed to be divert
I'd for road and highway pur-
poses; from moneys and reve-
1ues derived from any license
AK now levied or hereafter
evied on gasoline, distillate,
liberty fuel or other volatile
md inflammable liquid fuels
md by law diverted for the i'm
of roads and high
ways; from the moneys and 1
derived under the
of this Act and Acts
mandatory thereof; from all
moneys and revenues received
rom all other source or sources
which, by law, are diverted for
he improvement of the roads
nd highways of the State, I,
nd from the operation of all !
avs hereinafter enacted by
he Legislative Assembly of
oregon which direct that the
,oneys, licenses, revenues, ETC., s
hall be used in the construc- S
on and improvement of the I
Dads and highways of the 1
tate. The State Highway {
und shall be held by the State G
reasurer as a trust fund for {
pad and highway purposes. e
II interest earnings on such e
lnds shall be placed to the t
redit of the State Highway S
und. n
Section 2. The term Hard .
urfaced Highways" as used in q
lis Act and in all other High l
ay Acts, shall be deemed to I
ean any State road or high ~
ay constructed and surfaced =
: to be constructed and sur y
iced with such materials or 2
of materials as to d
-oduce what is commonly r
iown or styled pavement" u u