Oregon Statutes - Chapter 391 - Mass Transportation - Section 391.100 - Light Rail Construction Fund; purpose; requirements for expenditures from fund.

(1) There is created as a fund the Light Rail Construction Fund separate and distinct from the General Fund. The moneys in the fund and the interest earnings of the fund are appropriated continuously to the Department of Transportation for the purpose of financing that part of the Banfield Transitway Project that includes construction of a light rail system from the City of Portland to the City of Gresham to be routed along the corridor in which the Banfield Freeway, Interstate Highway 205 and East Burnside Street are located.

(2) No moneys shall be expended for construction from the fund created by subsection (1) of this section unless the Director of Transportation determines that the following conditions have occurred no later than the last day of June 1983:

(a) The United States Department of Transportation, subject to the appropriations process and to the satisfaction of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means or the Emergency Board, if the Legislative Assembly is not in session, has committed sufficient moneys to complete the Banfield Transitway Project; and

(b) The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District has entered into a binding, enforceable agreement with the State of Oregon in which:

(A) During the construction of the Banfield Transitway Project, the district agrees not to request or accept any state General Fund moneys for the light rail construction portion of that project other than those moneys appropriated to the fund created in this section by the Sixtieth Legislative Assembly;

(B) The district agrees to provide not less than $2,930,000 of the total funding for the light rail construction part of the Banfield Transitway Project; and

(C) In any instance where the actual expenditures for the light rail portion of the Banfield Transitway Project fall short of the estimated expenditures for the project, those moneys, other than federal moneys, that are not required for the project shall remain in the fund established by this section.

(3) The Director of Transportation shall certify the unobligated balance of the fund created by this section and that unobligated balance shall revert to the General Fund in accordance with the following:

(a) If at any time the Director of Transportation determines that the conditions required under subsection (2) of this section will not occur within the required time under that subsection, the director shall certify the unobligated balance of the fund and the unobligated balance shall revert.

(b) If the Director of Transportation determines that the conditions required under subsection (2) of this section have occurred and moneys from the fund are expended on the Banfield Transitway Project, the director shall certify the unobligated balance after the project is accepted by the Director of Transportation and all claims, suits and actions arising out of the project have been resolved. [1979 c.586 §1; 1981 c.262 §1]

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