Indiana Administrative Code
Title 135 - INDIANA FINANCE AUTHORITY
Article 4 - TOLLS AND TOLL ENFORCEMENT ON THE OHIO RIVER BRIDGES
Rule 2 - Applicability; Bi-State Governance
Section 2-1 - Applicability; bi-state governance

Authority: IC 8-15.5-7-8; IC 9-21-3.5

Affected: IC 8-15.5-7; IC 9-21-3.5

Sec. 1.

The states' parties have entered into various agreements among each other with respect to development, tolling operations, and governance of the Ohio River bridges, including a bi-state development agreement, an interlocal cooperation agreement, and a toll policy agreement. Pursuant to an interlocal cooperation agreement, a joint board and a tolling body have been created and authorized to provide for the exercise of certain shared powers of the states' parties with respect to the Ohio River Bridges Project, including the power to establish tolls, using all-electronic tolling for the Ohio River Bridges Project, the power to charge and collect tolls and fees for administrative and operational expenses and for toll violations, the power to utilize the services of a toll operator in connection with the Ohio River Bridges Project and the power to enforce collection of tolls and fees by the enforcement of infractions or violations or the institution of suits to collect debts representing tolls and fees. It is understood that powers granted to any of the states' parties as described in this article, or by law, may be exercised pursuant to the interlocal agreement, at the direction of the joint board or tolling body, by any of the states' parties, by the toll operator, acting on behalf of the states' parties, or by all of the states' parties.