R926-10-1. Purpose

(1) This rule is created for the planning, acquisition, design, financing, management, development, construction, reconstruction, replacement, improvement, maintenance, preservation, repair, enforcement, and operation of transportation projects utilizing public-private partnerships for development of tollways.

(2) The Department's objective in using public-private partnerships is to expand its ability to use innovative, non-traditional procurement, planning, funding, contracting, financing, delivery, and service methods to deliver transportation infrastructure in order to better meet the transportation needs of the state by utilizing resources more readily available in the private sector.