Ariz. Admin. Code § 17-1-348

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R17-1-348 - Requirements to provide data pertaining to county highway miles

A. Each year prior to April 1, the county engineer for each county in the state shall certify under oath and deliver to the Motor Vehicle Division a report containing the number of county highway miles located in his county as of the preceding December 31. The report shall contain the designation of each highway included in the number of county highway miles, the location of its termini, and the length of the highway measured on its centerline to the nearest one tenth of a mile.

B. The Assistant Director shall give notice in writing to any county engineer who fails to deliver the report by March 31. The notice shall state that the report has not been received and demand that it be delivered to the Motor Vehicle Division within ten days of the mailing of the notice.

C. If a county engineer fails to deliver the report required by subsection (A) after being given the ten-day notice provided in subsection (B), the Assistant Director shall continue to perform the calculations required by A.R.S. § 28-1598 using the county road miles reported by the delinquent county for the prior year. However, commencing with distributions made in the month following the expiration of the ten-day notice, the funds due the delinquent county pursuant to the provisions of A.R.S. § 28-1598 shall not be distributed to the delinquent county until the County Engineer has provided the report to the Motor Vehicle Division required by subsection (A).

D. The report required by subsection (A) shall be available for inspection by all of the counties. A county may challenge the report made by any other county by filing a challenge in writing with the Assistant Director not later than April 30 of each year. In the case of reports received after April 1 of each year, the challenge must be received by the Assistant Director not later than 30 days after receipt of the report by the Assistant Director. The challenge shall specify the highways and the number of disputed miles being contested.

E. If the Assistant Director receives a challenge to a report, the Assistant Director of the Department of Transportation for Transportation Planning Division shall hold a hearing within 60 days upon receipt to resolve the challenge. The burden of proof at the hearing shall be on the county bringing the challenge. The decision of the Assistant Director of the Department of Transportation for Transportation Planning Division concerning the outcome of the challenge shall be final.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R17-1-348

Adopted effective October 8, 1987 (Supp. 87-4). Renumbered from R17-4-348 (Supp. 92-4).