Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The board may:
(1) Cooperate with, and receive and expend aid and donations from the
federal government for transportation purposes, and receive and expend
donations from other sources for the construction and improvement of any state
highway or transportation project or any project on the federal-aid primary or
secondary systems or on the interstate system, including extensions of them
within urban areas; and, when authorized or directed by any act of congress or
any rule or regulation of any agency of the federal government, expend funds
donated or granted to the state of Idaho by the federal government for that
purpose, upon highways and bridges not in the state highway system.
(2) Contract jointly with counties, cities, and highway districts for the
improvement and construction of state highways.
(3) Cooperate with the federal government, counties, highway districts,
and cities for construction, improvement, and maintenance of secondary or
feeder highways not in the state highway system.
(4) Cooperate financially or otherwise with any other state or any county
or city of any other state, or with any foreign country or any province or
district of any foreign country, or with the government of the United States
or its agencies, or private agencies or persons, for the erecting,
construction, reconstructing, and maintaining of any bridge, trestle, or other
structure for the continuation or connection of any state highway across any
stream, body of water, gulch, navigable water, swamp or other topographical
formation requiring any such structure and forming a boundary between the
state of Idaho and any other state or foreign country, and for the purchase or
condemnation or other acquisition of right-of-way.
(5) Serve as the state's representative in the designation of forest
highways within the state.
(6) Negotiate and enter into bilateral agreements with designated
representatives of contiguous states. Agreements may provide for the manning
and operation of jointly occupied ports of entry, for the collection of
highway user fees, registration fees and taxes which may be required by law,
rule and regulation. Agreements may further provide for the collection of
these fees and taxes by either party state at jointly occupied ports of entry
before authorization is given for vehicles to legally operate within that
state or jurisdiction, and for the enforcement of safety, size and weight
laws, rules or regulations of the respective states. As to the provisions of
title 63, chapter 30, Idaho Code, the state tax commission is hereby
authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states concerning
the exemption of, or taxation of, persons employed by the state of Idaho or of
another state in jointly operated ports of entry. As used is this section,
"jointly operated ports of entry" shall mean any state operated facility
located within or without this state that employs persons that are direct
employees of the state of Idaho and of another state which operates for the
mutual benefit of both states.
(7) Enter into all contracts and agreements with the United States
government in the name of the state of Idaho, relating to the survey,
construction and maintenance of roads, under the provisions of any act of
congress including county and city highways, and submit a program of
construction and maintenance as may be required by the United States
government or any of its agencies, and do all other things necessary to
cooperate and complete those programs.

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