Regional Rail Act (672)
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The Purpose is to expand railroads into places not identified by the Ministry of Transportation. Allowing local governments to build regional railroads to connect places of interest and makes it easier for those governments to fund rail projects with Federal assistance.
Article 1: Regional Rail Program
1.1. A Region is defined as a province or two provinces that border each other in the nation.
1.2. Allowing the right for any province to operate their own provincial railroad company to serve communities not served by the National Railroad Act.
1.3. Allocating 1 billion florins per year or 250,000,000 florins quarterly for grants to provinces to build these railroads.
Article 2: Management
2.1. The Ministry of Transportation is responsible to managing the fund to the provinces.
2.2. Provinces are responsible for preforming preliminary engineering studies all corridors it identifies to build a rail line. The railline must connect to the national rail network to be considered for funding.
2.3. Provinces must design the railway to the standards the Ministry of Transportation defines as accordance to The National Railroad Act (667) Article 5.4 and connect to the national system.
2.4. To apply for funding. Provinces must submit its preliminary engineer study to the Ministry of Transportation for review. If the project has been determined to be feasible by the Ministry of Transportation along with complying to railroad standards, the Ministry of Transportation will provide 50% of the funding for the construction of the railroad.
Article 3: Military Use
3.1. During a State of Emergency as described by the chancellor's office. The Military has the right to take temporary control of all railroads during times of war.
3.2. During times of military emergency, the military may not block the use of railroads by public use including passenger services or cargo services.
3.3. When the state of emergency is over, the military must give up control back to the Ministry of Transportation along with the provinces that it temporarily took control over.
Written by Joseph Dean Fala, Minister of Transportation, KSDP
