SF 2557 Senate Long Description
Modifying certain provisions regulating highway safety rest areas and+ travel (tourist) information centers; authorizing and providing for the +commissioner of transportation (DOT) to enter into lease agreements with public, +nonprofit or private entities for the use of safety rest areas and travel +information centers; authorizing sales of certain merchandise by the commissioner+ at rest areas, authorizing advertising and the charging of certain fees; +authorizing the commissioner to enter into agreements for public or private +sponsorship of rest areas by transportation or tourism related entities; authorizing+ the sale of surplus rest area property and appropriating the proceeds to the commissioner for sale costs; prohibiting commissioner actions +resulting in the loss of federal highway funds or requiring the payment of highway +funds to the federal government; establishing a safety rest area account in the +trunk highway fund, requiring commissioner deposit of certain revenue in +the account and authorizing use of money in the account to fund safety rest +areas; changing the travel information franchise program to the travel information +advertising program and authorizing and providing for commissioner lease of +advertising space under the program and for certain vendor agreements, +authorizing the commissioners of transportation and employment and economic +development (DEED) to enter into an interagency agreement to define the distribution of +revenues under the program; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference+ change instructions to the revisor of statutes (je)