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TN Code § 54-2-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 2 - State Highway Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-2-103. Department of Transportation Funds to Be Kept Separate — Manner of Drawing Out

 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the department of transportation state highway fund shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds; and, except as authorized by § 47-18-1311, no part shall be transferred or otherwise diverted to any other department or agency of state government and shall only be drawn out of the state treasury as provided in §§ 54-2-104 and 54-2-105.
TN Code § 54-2-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 2 - State Highway Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-2-104. Disbursement of Department of Transportation Funds — Voucher-Warrant — Preparation and Form

 Upon the receipt by the commissioner of transportation of any project estimate, account or other item of disbursement other than payroll payments, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to prepare a voucher-warrant for the amount for which the commissioner approves the account, project estimate or other disbursement, payable to the party entitled to the disbursement, and approved by the commissioner. The voucher-warrant shall be transmitted to the commissioner of finance and administration, together with the statement of account, estimate or other disbursement the commissioner may require, and when the voucher-warrant has been approved by the commissioner of finance and administration in accordance with law, the commissioner of finance and administration shall sign the voucher-warrant and shall deliver the voucher-warrant to the department of transportation for transmission to the party entitled to the voucher-warrant. When made out by the commissioner of transportation, the voucher-warrant shall contain the project number for which it is drawn and other memoranda or data the commissioner of transportation may deem requisite for purposes of identification and record. Upon presentation of the voucher-warrant, when properly signed by the commissioner of finance and administration and the commissioner of transportation, it shall be the duty of the state treasurer to pay the voucher-warrant.
TN Code § 54-2-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 2 - State Highway Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-2-105. Payroll Accounts — Depository Bond

 When, in the course of the work of the department of transportation, the commissioner of transportation finds it necessary to make payments of salaries or personal expenses, or both, now authorized by law to the personnel of the department, in all cases except where an appropriation for salaries and expenses and/or wages is made by the general appropriations act, the commissioner shall prepare in duplicate payrolls and/or expense accounts, showing in detail the payments due to each and every employee of the department, properly itemizing all expense accounts, which payrolls and expense accounts may be in one (1) document or in several, at the discretion of the commissioner. The original of the payrolls shall be filed in the department and a duplicate copy of the payrolls shall be certified by the commissioner as being correct, and the commissioner shall then draw a voucher-warrant for the total amount of the payroll or payrolls, and the voucher-warrant, when found to be correct by the commissioner of finance and administration, shall be signed by the commissioner of finance and administration. Upon presentation of the voucher-warrant to the state treasurer, it shall be the state treasurer's duty to pay the voucher-warrant and to deposit the proceeds of the voucher-warrant into a state depository the state treasurer selects, the voucher-warrant to be deposited to the credit of the commissioner of transportation, payroll account. The commissioner of transportation may then draw checks payable to the order of the respective parties to whom the salaries, wages and/or expenses may be due for the amounts due each. The payrolls, when in possession of the state depository designated by the state treasurer, shall be protected by the regular depository bond. All checks drawn by the commissioner of transportation on the payroll account shall be segregated month by month and preserved for a period of twelve (12) months and, at the expiration of the twelve-month period, the commissioner of transportation may transfer the checks to the archives of the state.
TN Code § 54-2-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 2 - State Highway Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-2-108. Short-Term Notes — Issuance in Anticipation of Collections to Start Construction of Any Project

 The commissioner of finance and administration and state treasurer shall anticipate the collection of highway funds, and issue short-term notes when requested by the department of transportation, to start the construction or reconstruction of any project that has been accepted by an officer or agency of the federal government, as provided in any act of congress granting funds for the construction of roads, and as provided in this chapter and chapters 1 and 5 of this title.
TN Code § 54-4-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 1 - County Aid Funds|§ 54-4-101. Source — Payment — Use

  All state moneys appropriated or allotted for the maintenance and improvement of county systems shall be known as county aid funds, to be paid over by the commissioner of finance and administration to the trustees of the several counties in the proportion directed in § 54-4-103, to be used by the county highway authorities in building or maintaining, or both, county roads and bridges; provided, that any county highway may be taken over and constructed, improved or maintained as a hard surface road by the department of transportation out of its own funds.   Any county has the power and authority by resolution of the governing body of the county, to pledge county aid funds to the punctual payment of principal of and interest on bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued for the purpose of building, maintaining or improving county roads and bridges, but only after receiving in writing the concurrence of the current superintendent of roads to pledge county aid funds to a bond issue.
TN Code § 54-4-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 1 - County Aid Funds|§ 54-4-102. Liability for Unauthorized Expenditures

  Any county official or person who authorizes, directs or permits the expenditure of county aid funds for any purpose, except those authorized by this part, shall be personally liable for any unauthorized expenditure of the funds.   Officials or persons violating this section in concert with others shall be jointly and severally liable.
TN Code § 54-4-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 1 - County Aid Funds|§ 54-4-104. Claims Paid Out of Fund

 In the event the task of administering a county's pro rata share of the county aid fund is placed on the department of transportation by resolution as provided in § 54-4-103, and, in carrying on the work on the county roads and bridges, an employee or other person is injured or killed or property damage caused so as to render the department liable to an award of the board of claims, then the award shall be paid out of the county's pro rata share of the county aid fund, regardless of whether the funds are being administered by the department on the date of the award.
TN Code § 54-4-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 1 - County Aid Funds|§ 54-4-105. Salary of Trustee Not Increased

 Nothing in § 54-4-103 shall be construed to increase the salary of trustees of the counties beyond that fixed by any salary law.
TN Code § 54-4-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 2 - Municipal Aid Funds|§ 54-4-201. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Municipal street aid fund” means the funds provided for municipalities by §§ 67-3-901 and 67-3-905;   “Municipality” means any incorporated city or incorporated town charged with the duty of constructing and maintaining streets within its corporate boundaries;   “Street” includes streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, publicly owned rights-of-way, bridges, tunnels, public parking areas or other public ways dedicated to public use and maintained for general public travel lying within a municipality's corporate boundaries; and   “Street improvements” means construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of streets, including paving, repaving, grading and drainage, repairs, cleaning, acquisition and maintenance of rights-of-way, extension and widening of existing streets, elimination of railroad grade crossings, acquisition or lease or lease/purchase of trucks or other equipment necessary in the construction and maintenance of streets, including the purchase, construction or leasing of facilities to store the equipment, street lighting, signage and other traffic control devices, and administrative and other necessary expenses, including labor and employee benefits, in connection with the street improvements.
TN Code § 54-4-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 2 - Municipal Aid Funds|§ 54-4-204. State Street Aid Fund — Funding Mass Transit

  Except as provided in subsection (f), each municipality shall keep all funds received from the municipal street aid fund in a separate fund designated as the state street aid fund” and may expend the funds only for one (1) or more of the following purposes:  Street improvements;   Principal of and interest on bonds or other indebtedness incurred to pay for street improvements issued after February 19, 1953. The funds may be specifically pledged as security for the bonds or other indebtedness;   The municipality's part of the cost of acquiring rights-of-way for approaches to bridges and tunnels;   To pay the city's part of the cost of grade eliminations on streets and highways, including state and federal highways; and   Not to exceed one third (1/3) of the total costs of rights-of-way for state or federal highways within the municipality's corporate boundaries.     A municipality, in its discretion, may use the funds to pay for street improvement work by the department of transportation or by a county highway or road department or by another municipality, performed under an agreement with the state, county or municipality.   Each municipality shall keep records of receipts into and expenditures from its state street aid fund, in accordance with sound municipal accounting practices, and shall have made an audit at the end of each fiscal year of the accounts of the fund by a certified public accountant, or a public accountant unless otherwise provided by law, and shall submit one (1) certified copy of the audit to the comptroller of the treasury to be reviewed for compliance with this part and minimum standards for municipal audits prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury.    All purchases made with state street aid funds by a municipality shall be made in conformity with public advertisement and competitive bidding laws applicable to the particular municipality.   Nothing in subdivision (d)(1) shall be interpreted as requiring any municipality to employ a licensed engineer to prepare bid specifications and estimates.     Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, funds in the municipal street aid fund may be expended by municipalities receiving the funds for the purpose of funding mass transit systems. No more than twenty-two and twenty-two one hundredths percent (22.22%) of the funds may be used for the purpose of funding mass transit.   Upon written request of a municipality, the comptroller of the treasury may authorize that funds received from the municipal street aid fund may be kept and accounted for in the general fund of the municipality; provided, that revenues and expenditures related to funds received from the municipal street aid fund shall be accounted for separately in the general fund in a manner that allows identification of the source of revenue and the expenditures related to the revenue.
TN Code § 54-4-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 2 - Municipal Aid Funds|§ 54-4-205. Unlawful Expenditures a Misdemeanor — Liability

 It is a Class C misdemeanor for any municipal official or employee to authorize, direct or permit the expenditure of the funds for any purpose, except those authorized by this part. Any municipal official or employee who violates this section shall be personally liable for any unauthorized expenditure of the funds.
TN Code § 54-4-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 3 - Metropolitan Government Aid Funds|§ 54-4-301. Counties to Keep One Fund

 Those counties having a metropolitan form of government shall keep all funds received under this chapter in one (1) fund to be used for the purposes set out in this chapter.
TN Code § 54-4-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 3 - Metropolitan Government Aid Funds|§ 54-4-302. Construction of Chapter

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require those counties having a metropolitan form of government to keep separate from each other the funds received under this chapter, to keep separate accounting of the funds or to spend the funds in a particular service district.
TN Code § 54-4-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 4 - State-Aid Highway System|§ 54-4-401. Establishment of System

 The commissioner is authorized to establish a state-aid highway system in cooperation with local officials.
TN Code § 54-4-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 4 - State-Aid Highway System|§ 54-4-402. Powers and Duties of Commissioner

  The commissioner has full power, and it is made the duty of the commissioner, after consultation with local officials, to designate those highways and roads that are considered of sufficient importance to be included in the state-aid highway system. In the selection and designation of highways and roads as part of the state-aid highway system, the commissioner shall consider any highways and roads that are not a part of the state highway system, the number of miles of highways and roads in each county, and the area and population of each county, traffic volume, type of traffic, land use, and function that each route serves in the county road network.   After consulting with local officials, the commissioner may make adjustments in the system that appear to be necessary as a result of any change in local conditions and traffic patterns as shown by studies and data of the planning division of the department.   The commissioner is authorized to lease to local officials any equipment of the department.
TN Code § 54-4-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 4 - State-Aid Highway System|§ 54-4-403. Annual Program of Work

 When the state-aid highway system has been designated as provided in § 54-4-402, the local authorities having authority over the selected roads shall submit an annual program to the department specifying the type of work to be performed in the local entity on the state-aid highway system. The types of qualifying work may include the planning, engineering, right-of-way acquisition, construction, improvement, and rehabilitation of roads and bridges. Upon approval of this annual program by the commissioner, within the funds allocated for the local agency, the program of work shall be carried out as provided in this part.
TN Code § 54-4-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 4 - State-Aid Highway System|§ 54-4-404. Allocation and Expenditure of Funds — Matching Funds — Bridge Replacement

  Funds appropriated to the state-aid highway system shall be allocated to the local agencies to be expended upon the designated highways and roads by the same formula as is set forth in § 54-4-103.   No funds shall be either obligated or expended under this program unless the local agency agrees to match the proposed expenditures in an amount of twenty-five percent (25%). All of the required match or a portion of the match may be provided by in-kind contributions.   A local agency may choose to transfer up to fifty percent (50%) of its funds allocated for the state-aid highway system to its state off-system bridge replacement program, in which case the matching requirements for bridge replacement projects as set forth in Acts 1982, ch. 916, § 11, Item 48, shall apply. It may choose to transfer up to that amount to participate in the federal-aid bridge replacement and rehabilitation program.   If any county has an unexpended balance of funds that have accrued in the state treasury and that are available for the benefit of the county under this part, then the county may use the unexpended balance, in whole or in part, to provide a portion of the local agency share required by subsection (b); provided, that the county shall provide at least two percent (2%) of the approved project costs from county funds or in-kind project work approved by the commissioner of transportation, or both.
TN Code § 54-4-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 4 - State-Aid Highway System|§ 54-4-405. Methods of Work

 Work authorized by this part shall be done in one (1) of the following methods:   Upon request of local officials, the department may agree and is fully empowered to act as agent for the local agency to carry out any phase of work authorized on the state-aid highway system;   All preconstruction activities may be performed by the local agency if accomplished in compliance with reasonable standards, which shall be established by the department; or   The construction of highways and roads provided for by this part shall be done in one (1) of the following methods:  By award of a construction contract by a local agency in accordance with procedures approved by the department, which shall include advertisement in a newspaper having circulation in the county in which the work is to be done for at least two (2) weekly issues prior to the date of accepting bids and compliance with a competitive bid procedure consistent with existing laws for the awarding of highway or road construction contracts; or   In accordance with a negotiated contract between the department and a local agency based upon unit prices to be established by the department; provided, that the department may prescribe rules and regulations necessary to ensure that counties with whom contracts are executed are equipped and qualified to do the work.
TN Code § 54-4-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 4 - State-Aid Highway System|§ 54-4-406. Maintenance of Roads

 Any road designated as a part of the state-aid highway system shall be maintained by the local agency in which the highway or road is located.
TN Code § 54-4-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 5 - 1990 Bridge Grant Program Act|§ 54-4-501. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “1990 Bridge Grant Program Act.”
TN Code § 54-4-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 5 - 1990 Bridge Grant Program Act|§ 54-4-502. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Commissioner” means the commissioner of transportation;   “Department” means the department of transportation; and   “Local government” means any county, incorporated city or town, and metropolitan form of government, or any of them.
TN Code § 54-4-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 5 - 1990 Bridge Grant Program Act|§ 54-4-503. Purpose

 The general assembly finds and declares it to be in the vital interest of the state that a highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program be established to enable the local governments to replace or rehabilitate certain bridges within their respective jurisdictions when the commissioner finds that a bridge is structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
TN Code § 54-4-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 5 - 1990 Bridge Grant Program Act|§ 54-4-504. Selection Process — Eligibility

  The commissioner shall develop a selection process for projects authorized to be funded under this part, and, furthermore, shall establish the policies and procedures by which this program shall be accomplished.   Eligible bridges shall be those located on public roads, other than those on a federal-aid system or the state system of highways.   In order for a local government to be considered eligible for participation in this program, it must be in compliance with any department recommendations, concerning the posting and enforcement of load limits, and the closure of structures, based upon national bridge inspection standards. Whenever the commissioner determines that no local government within a county geographical area has taken necessary action to assure maximum utilization of the program, the county geographical area may be considered ineligible to participate in the following fiscal year.
TN Code § 54-4-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 5 - 1990 Bridge Grant Program Act|§ 54-4-505. Allocation of Funds

 Subject to the conditions for local government participation set forth in this part, the allocation of funds appropriated to the 1990 bridge grant program each fiscal year shall be in accordance with the general appropriations act.
TN Code § 54-4-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - State Funds for Local Aid|Part 5 - 1990 Bridge Grant Program Act|§ 54-4-506. Expending Allocated Moneys for Other Roadway Purposes

 Once the local governments within a county geographical area have addressed the project priorities established by the commissioner, application may be made to the commissioner for permission to expend moneys allocated to the area under this part for other roadway purposes. The commissioner must approve the expenditure, and may require that certain conditions be met in conjunction with the expenditure.