13-1205 Department of Roads; powers, duties, and responsibilities; enumerated.
13-1205. Department of Roads; powers, duties, and responsibilities; enumerated.The department shall have the following powers, duties, and responsibilities:(1) To collect and maintain data on the level of public transportation services and needs in the state and identify areas not being adequately served by existing public or private transportation services;(2) To assess the regional and statewide effect of changes, improvement, and route abandonments in the state's public transportation system;(3) To develop a six-year statewide transit plan and programs for public transportation in coordination with local plans and programs developed by municipalities, counties, and transit authorities;(4) To provide planning and technical assistance to agencies of the state, political subdivisions, or groups seeking to improve public transportation;(5) To advise, consult, and cooperate with agencies of the state, the federal government, and other states, interstate agencies, political subdivisions, and groups concerned with public transportation;(6) To cooperate with the Public Service Commission by providing periodic assessments to the commission when determining the effect of proposed regulatory decisions on public transportation;(7) To administer federal and state programs providing financial assistance to public transportation, except those federal and state programs in which a municipality, county, transit authority, or other state agency is designated as the administrator;(8) To prepare and submit a biennial report to the Governor, the State Energy Office, and the Clerk of the Legislature detailing its activities under the Nebraska Public Transportation Act. The report shall make recommendations to strengthen, expand, and improve public transportation in the state; and(9) To exercise all other powers necessary and proper for the discharge of its duties, including the adoption and promulgation of reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the act.Each member of the Legislature shall receive a copy of the report required by subdivision (8) of this section by making a request for such report to the director. SourceLaws 1975, LB 443, § 9; Laws 1979, LB 322, § 4; Laws 1981, LB 545, § 4; Laws 1981, LB 144, § 4; R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3905; Laws 1993, LB 158, § 4.