H.B. 23 Enrolled

JOINT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
AMENDMENTS
2004 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Rebecca D. Lockhart

LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill modifies the Transportation Code to amend the Department of Transportation
administration provisions.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
. defines a metropolitan planning organization;
. requires the Department of Transportation to cooperate with metropolitan planning
organizations for transportation planning and project programming;
. requires that the department cooperate with metropolitan planning organizations
with contiguous boundaries, if those organizations have:
. coordinated transportation plans and improvement programs; and
. submitted joint comprehensive, integrated transportation plans to the
department; and
. provides that the governor and local units of government may redesignate or realign
metropolitan planning organizations if the governor and the affected local units of
government jointly determine that metropolitan planning organizations have failed to
cooperate and submit joint transportation plans.
Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:

ENACTS:
72-1-208.5, Utah Code Annotated 1953

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 72-1-208.5 is enacted to read:
72-1-208.5. Definition -- Cooperation with metropolitan planning organizations --
Cooperation in plans and programs required.
(1) As used in this section, "metropolitan planning organization" means an organization
established under 23 U.S.C. Sec. 134.
(2) The department shall cooperate with a metropolitan planning organization in the
metropolitan planning organization's responsibility to carry out a continuing, cooperative, and
comprehensive process for transportation planning and project programming.
(3) If a metropolitan planning organization has a contiguous boundary with another
metropolitan planning organization, the department shall cooperate with those organizations if the
metropolitan planning organizations have:
(a) coordinated project priorities, transportation plans, and transportation improvement
programs; and
(b) submitted joint priorities, plans, and programs to the department as comprehensive,
integrated transportation plans.
(4) Subject to the provisions of 23 U.S.C. Sec. 134, if the governor and the affected local
units of government jointly determine that metropolitan planning organizations have failed to meet
the guidelines under Subsection (3), the governor and local units of government may redesignate
or realign the metropolitan planning organizations.

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