Sec. 748.106. - Definitions.

In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) Cash flow schedule means the document by which work is to be undertaken or completed to accomplish the projects listed on the road program and by which the work is to be paid for from the surplus gas tax funds or otherwise funded. (b) City street system has the same definition as in F.S. § 334.03. (c) Construction means the building of a new road or the complete rebuilding of an existing road such that its estimated life is lengthened or its vehicular carrying capacity by weight or volume of traffic is increased. (d) County road system has the same definition as in F.S. § 334.03. (e) Division means the Right-of-Way and Stormwater Maintenance Division. (f) Emergency means a reasonably unforeseen and sudden obstruction of or deterioration in the surface or supporting structures of a road requiring immediate action to restore the road to a safe traveling condition. (g) J.U.A.T.S. refers to the Jacksonville Urban Area Transportation Study, a transportation coordinating system of the City, managed by a Technical Coordinating Committee and the Jacksonville Urbanized Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. (h) Maintenance includes routine maintenance and periodic maintenance, and: (1) Routine maintenance means minor repairs and associated tasks necessary to maintain a safe and efficient transportation system. The term includes pavement patching; shoulder repair; cleaning and repair of drainage ditches, traffic signs and structures; mowing; bridge inspection and maintenance; pavement striping; litter cleanup and similar activities. (2) Periodic maintenance means an activity which is large in scope and requires a major work effort to restore deteriorated components of the transportation system to a safe and serviceable condition, including the repair of large bridge structures, major repairs to bridges and bridge systems and the mineral sealing or resurfacing of lengthy Sections of roadway. (i) Obligation authority means the authority contained on the road program approved by the Council to obligate the City for the payment of money concurrently with or in advance of appropriations. (j) Project means a planned under-taking to construct a road or related structures (including drainage) or to perform periodic maintenance on a road or related structure (including drainage), which undertaking is self-contained and will generally be constructed or performed as a unit or within a definite period of time, although this definition shall not be construed to exclude a project that is designed to be completed in distinct phases. The term project includes all engineering, design, right-of-way and easement acquisition, construction, contract administration, construction engineering and inspection related to the undertaking. (k) Road means a way open to travel by the public, including, but not limited to, a street, highway, or alley. The term includes associated sidewalks, the roadbed, the right-of-way, and all culverts, drains, sluices, ditches, water storage areas, waterways, embankments, slopes, retaining walls, bridges, tunnels, and viaducts necessary for the maintenance of travel and all ferries used in connection therewith. (l) Road program means the document listing the projects for construction of roads in the City streets and highways system using the surplus gas tax funds, and all amendments thereof, approved by the Council as provided in Part 2. (m) Surplus gas tax funds means and includes the 80 percent portion of the fifth and sixth cents of the second gas tax levied by Section 16, Article IX of the Constitution of 1885, as amended, and continued by Section 9(c), Article XII of the State Constitution, or so much thereof as is available to the City pursuant to the constitutional and statutory formulas and applicable bond covenants and pledges. (Ord. 78-329-131, § 1; Ord. 78-744-361, § 2; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1; Ord. 2013-209-E, § 22) Note— Former § 620.106.