HB 5710 Summary

• Amends the Public Roads Act to clarify that "county road commission" includes the county board of commissioners in counties that have dissolved their board of county road commissioners.

• Removes duplicative definitions of "county road commission" from sections 9a and 20a by consolidating them into section 10c.

• Modifies section 20a to allow townships with a population of 15,000 or more that levy at least 1 mill in property tax to contract with county road commissions for preservation of local roads, with the road commission paying up to 90% of specified amounts.

• Establishes that the transportation asset management council must develop procedures for asset management administration including training, data collection, reporting, and multiyear programming within 90 days of first meeting.

• Clarifies terminology throughout the act by replacing "which" with "that" and making other minor grammatical corrections.