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[CITE: 23USC302]

 
                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
                      CHAPTER 3--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 302. State transportation department

    (a) Any State desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this 
title shall have a State transportation department which shall have 
adequate powers, and be suitably equipped and organized to discharge to 
the satisfaction of the Secretary the duties required by this title. In 
meeting the provisions of this subsection, a State may engage, to the 
extent necessary or desirable, the services of private engineering 
firms.
    (b) Effect of Compliance.--Compliance with subsection (a) shall have 
no effect on the eligibility of costs.

(Pub. L. 85-767, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 912; Pub. L. 89-574, Sec. 11, 
Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 770; Pub. L. 105-178, title I, Sec. 1212(a)(1), 
(2)(A)(i), (B)(ii), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 193.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-178, Sec. 1212(a)(2)(B)(ii), substituted ``State 
transportation department'' for ``State highway department'' in section 
catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-178, Sec. 1212(a)(1)(A), (2)(A)(i), 
substituted ``State transportation department'' for ``State highway 
department'' and struck out after first sentence ``Among other things, 
the organization shall include a secondary road unit.''
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-178, Sec. 1212(a)(1)(B), added subsec. (b) 
and struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: ``The State 
highway department may arrange with a county or group of counties for 
competent highway engineering personnel suitably organized and equipped 
to the satisfaction of the State highway department, to supervise 
construction and maintenance on a county-unit or group-unit basis, for 
the construction of projects on the Federal-aid secondary system, 
financed with secondary funds, and for the maintenance thereof.''
