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Senate Transportation reviews H.488 provisions to codify rules for state-owned rail trails
Summary
Legislative counsel described language in H.488 that renames a Title 5 chapter to cover state-owned railroads and rail trails, directs the Agency of Transportation to adopt rules for interim trail use of rail-banked right-of-way, and lists activities the state would be able to regulate on those trails.
At a Senate Transportation Committee review of H.488, Damien Leonard of the Office of Legislative Council outlined provisions that would add explicit statutory authority to regulate interim trail uses of state-owned rail rights-of-way placed in rail-bank status.
The bill would retitle the Title 5 chapter from “state acquisition of railroads” to “state-owned railroads and rail trails” and require the secretary of transportation to adopt rules governing interim trail use that are consistent with the new statutory provisions, Leonard said.
The change reflects existing practice, Leonard said: "If you have a railroad that is no longer in use, the state can place it in rail bank status, which basically means ... it could go…
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