Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 603 - TRANSPORTATION CABINET › Chapter 5 - Traffic › Section 603 KAR 5:230 - The extended weight coal or coal by-products haul road system and associated bridge weight limits

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				177.9771,
				189.230
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				177.9771(10) authorizes the
				Secretary of the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative
				regulations necessary to administer the provisions of
				KRS
				177.9771,
				177.9772,
				177.979,
				and
				189.230.
				KRS
				177.9771(2) requires the
				Secretary of the Transportation Cabinet to certify those public highways that
				meet certain criteria as the extended weight coal or coal by-products haul road
				system.
				KRS
				177.9771(1) requires that
				roads that are currently, or have been in the past, state-maintained toll roads
				always be included on the extended weight coal or coal by-products haul road
				system.
				KRS
				189.230(2) authorizes the
				Department of Highways to prescribe a gross vehicle weight limit for a bridge
				lower than a limit prescribed in
				KRS
				177.9771 on a bridge that may be damaged or
				destroyed to the point of catastrophic failure if gross vehicle weights exceed
				certain limits.
				KRS
				177.9771(9) requires the
				Transportation Cabinet Secretary to meet with certain local governing bodies
				and consider the concerns of those bodies before adding to or deleting from the
				extended weight coal or coal byproducts haul road system. This administrative
				regulation establishes requirements for the extended weight coal or coal
				by-products haul road system and associated bridge weight limits.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "AASHTO" means the American Association
			 of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
(2) "Catastrophic failure" means a failure
			 that is marked by sudden or unpredictable extreme damage.
(3) "CO" means county.
(4) "Coal by-product" means fly ash, bottom
			 ash, wet bottom boiler slag, scrubber sludge, burned coal waste (red dog), coal
			 slag, or coal cinders.
(5) "CR"
			 means a public highway, road, or street not maintained by the Kentucky
			 Department of Highways.
(6) "FROM"
			 means the beginning milepoint and terminus of a road segment on the extended
			 weight coal or coal by-product haul road system.
(7) "I" means an interstate and defense
			 highway maintained by the Kentucky Department of Highways.
(8) "KY" means a state numbered highway
			 maintained by the Kentucky Department of Highways.
(9) "LN" means line.
(10) "Local governing body" means the fiscal
			 court of a county, the city council or commission of a city of the first
			 through fourth classes, or the council of an urban county government.
(11) "P" means parallel bridge.
(12) "PKWY" means parkway.
(13) "TO" means the ending milepoint and
			 terminus of a road segment on the extended weight coal or coal by-product haul
			 road system.
(14) "TY I" means a
			 single unit truck consisting of two (2) single axles.
(15) "TY II" means a single unit truck
			 consisting of one (1) steering axle and two (2) axles in tandem
			 arrangement.
(16) "TY III" means a
			 single unit truck consisting of one (1) steering axle and three (3) axles in
			 tridem arrangement.
(17) "TY IV"
			 means a tractor-semitrailer combination with five (5) or more axles.
(18) "US" means a United States numbered
			 highway maintained by the Kentucky Department of Highways.