CHAPTER 39-04.2 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 39-04.2-01. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1

"Public transportation" means the vehicular transportation of persons from place to place within this state, but does not include the provision of transportation facilities otherwise provided by public funds, such as roads, streets, highways, bridges, lighting equipment, or signs

"Ridership" means a one-way trip provided to any one person in a motorized vehicle designed to carry eight or more persons in an enclosed area with separate seating for each person

"Transportation provider" means a political subdivision, tribal agency, or any nonprofit corporation that provides transportation to the public, especially to elderly and handicapped citizens

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39-04.2-02. Public transportation fund - Administration of the fund

The director shall administer the public transportation fund. Payments disbursed under this chapter must be paid from moneys deposited in the fund. The expenses arising from administration of the fund must be paid from the fund within the limits of legislative appropriations

39-04.2-03. Additional registration fee - Deposit in fund

Repealed by S.L. 2009, ch. 40, ยง 26

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39-04.2-04. Distribution of funds - Continuing appropriation

1. Moneys in the public transportation fund must be disbursed under guidelines issued by the director. The funds must be used by transportation providers to establish and maintain public transportation, especially for the elderly and handicapped, and may be used to contract to provide public transportation, as matching funds to procure money from other sources for public transportation and for other expenditures authorized by the director. Moneys in the public transportation fund are appropriated to the department of transportation on a continuing basis for distributions authorized under this section

Each county shall receive a base amount of four-tenths of one percent of the appropriation for the program plus one dollar and fifty cents per capita of population in the county, based upon the latest regular or special official federal census. Each year the director shall increase or decrease the one dollar and fifty cents per capita amount in order to distribute all funds appropriated for the biennium. If there are multiple transportation providers in one county, then the base amount must be divided equally among the providers and the additional per capita amount must be based upon the percentage of elderly and handicapped ridership provided by each transportation provider within the county. Funds not expended by a county during a contract period, or previous contract periods, may be redistributed under guidelines established by the director. In addition, unexpended funds may also be used by the director for transit coordination purposes

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