Delaware Transportation Authority Act

Delaware · Transportation · §§ 2-1301 to 2-1335 · 35 sections

Overview

The act consolidates a state's transportation functions under a single public authority governed by a director, giving it responsibility for turnpike and highway operations, transit service, aeronautics, and passenger rail, and allowing it to form subsidiaries and absorb functions previously held by local or specialized transportation bodies. Its central financing mechanism is the issuance of revenue bonds secured by tolls, motor fuel tax receipts, and other pledged revenues held in trust, with the state's own credit expressly not pledged behind them; related provisions cover authorized projects, transfers of property and prior bond authority to the authority, and exemption of the authority and its obligations from taxation. It also sets the terms under which the authority operates alongside other government — limiting the jurisdiction of political subdivisions over its projects, subjecting it to audit and open-records requirements, and addressing employee status, liability, damage to private property, and time limits for recovering payments it collected in error.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

Del. Code tit. 2, § 1301Short title
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1302Legislative findings and determinations
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1303Definitions
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1304Established; Director
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1305Turnpike maintenance and operations
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1306Aeronautics within the Department
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1307Subsidiaries
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1308Termination of local and specialized transportation authorities [Repealed]
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1309Powers
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1310Revenues
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1311Bonds
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1312Authorized projects
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1313Projects transferred to Authority; cancellation of state general obligation bond authority
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1314Authorization of state highway projects
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1315Credit of State not pledged to Authority bonds
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1316Bonds as legal investments; legal deposit
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1317Revenues as trust funds; pledge or assignment of revenues; security interest
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1318Certain contract with bondholders
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1319Exemption from taxation
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1320Special provisions relating to Delaware Turnpike
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1321Limitation on jurisdiction of political subdivisions
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1322Conveyance to Authority
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1323Audit of books and accounts
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1324Damage to private property
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1325Employees of the Delaware Transit Corporation and subsidiaries
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1325AStatus of former DTA employees
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1326John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1327Operation of service stations
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1328Application of state Freedom of Information Act
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1329Liability of Authority
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1330Limitation of actions to recover payments erroneously or illegally collected by the Authority
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1331Motor fuel tax
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1332Passenger rail carriers
Del. Code tit. 2, §§ 1333, 1334[Reserved.]
Del. Code tit. 2, § 1335Maintaining adequate supplies of road materials [Operation of this statute was suspended by 85 Del. Laws, c. 64, § 113]

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