TITLE 40

HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES

CHAPTER 8

TAXES

40-801.  Authority and procedure for levies. (1) The commissioners of a county highway system, the commissioners of a county-wide highway district, and the commissioners of highway districts are empowered, for the purpose of construction and maintenance of highways and bridges under their respective jurisdictions, to make the following highway ad valorem tax levies as applied to the market value for assessment purposes within their districts:

(a)  Two-tenths per cent (0.2%) of market value for assessment purposes for construction and maintenance of highways and bridges; provided that if the levy is made upon property within the limits of any incorporated city, fifty per cent (50%) of the funds shall be apportioned to that incorporated city.

(b)  A special levy of eighty-four thousandth per cent (0.084%) of market value for assessment purposes to be used for any one (1) or all of the following purposes:

1.  bridge maintenance and construction;

2.  matching state and federal highway funds;

3.  secondary highway construction;

4.  secondary highway maintenance and improvements;

5.  maintenance during an emergency.

No part of this levy shall be apportioned to any incorporated city.

(2)  The tax levies authorized by this section shall be certified to the county auditor of the county in which the levies are made, at the same time that other tax levies are certified for other county purposes, shall be collected by the same officers and in the same manner as any other county taxes are collected, and paid into the county treasury and apportioned to the districts or taxing units in the amount that their respective levies produced, exclusive of ordinary collection fees to the county and the proper apportionment to the incorporated cities.

(3)  The total levies for construction and maintenance of highways and bridges, secondary highway matching funds and construction and maintenance of bridges only, shall not exceed two hundred eighty-four thousandth per cent (0.284%) of the market value for assessment purposes.

History:

[40-801, added 1985, ch. 253, sec. 2, p. 627.]