Bill 715.

Summary.

The bill would establish a condition for opening access points to highways, corridors and expressways developed by concessionaires. Article 1 would strictly prohibit those concessionaires from opening access points where there is no direct connection between the main arteries or roads and the relevant highway, corridor or expressway. The prohibition concerns the opening of an access point and ties that action to the existence of a direct connection between the roads concerned. The provision covers all three types of infrastructure identified in the bill’s title and applies the same condition to access points serving each type.

Article 2 would assign the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Obras Públicas) responsibility for ensuring that priority is given to projects that must be built to provide access or a direct connection between the city’s main roads and corridors or expressways. It places that responsibility in the context of the Ministry’s membership on the concessionaires’ boards of directors. It would also require the Ministry of Public Works to maintain its participation in concessionaires established in the future. The bill thus links the Ministry’s role on those boards with the priority accorded to construction projects intended to connect the city’s main roads with corridors or expressways.

Article 3 would direct the Executive Branch (Órgano Ejecutivo), acting through the Ministry of Public Works, to issue regulations implementing the proposed law. It would set a deadline of six months after promulgation for that action. The provision identifies both the authority responsible for the regulations and the Ministry through which that authority would act. Article 4 would provide that the proposed law take effect on the day after its promulgation. The bill therefore combines a prohibition addressed to concessionaires, a responsibility to ensure project priority assigned to the Ministry, a direction to issue regulations and an effective date.

The public bodies concerned are the Ministry of Public Works and the Executive Branch. The bill’s provisions could concern or affect concessionaires developing highway, corridor and expressway projects, sectors involved in constructing road access points and connections, and people who use the city’s main roads, corridors or expressways. The proposal addresses the physical relationship between those roads and the access points that concessionaires would open, the construction projects intended to establish direct connections, and the institutional participation prescribed for giving those projects priority.