PART IV

Private Advertisements and Miscellaneous Notifications

Kerala Road Fund Board

NOTIFICATION

No. KRF/RBDC/1/2003.

17th November 2008.

In exercise of powers conferred by Section 8 (2)

of Kerala Road Fund Act, 2001 regarding levy of user

fee on motor vehicles using the transport facility, the

Kerala Road Fund Board hereby notifies that there shall

be levied and paid user fee on mechanical vehicles for the

use of the two ROBs constructed by Roads and Bridges

Development Corporation of Kerala Ltd. as per schedule-

I at the rates specified in the schedule-II and hereby

authorize the Managing Director, Roads and Bridges

Development Corporation of Kerala Limited (RBDCKL),

Kochi or his authorized representative to collect and

retain user fees at the rates specified in the schedule.

The notification shall come into force on the date of its

publication.

SCHEDULE - I

Details of the Road Over Bridges with location

Sl.

Name of ROB/LC. No. and

Location

No.

Rly. K.M.

1

Nandi-206, 695/12-13

Between Koilandy

(Kozhikode District)

and Thikkody

2

Muzhupilangadu - 232, 738/7-8

Between Edakkad

(Kannur District)

and Dharmadam

SCHEDULE - II

Rates of user fee to be recovered from the users of

the Bridge

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Particulars of Vehicles

Rates of fees to be

No.

charged per trip

Rs.

1

Motor car, taxi, jeep and pick up

5.00

vans

2

Light Commercial Vehicles

8.00

3

Bus, 2-axle truck/tanker,

15.00

multi-axle truck/ tanker

The user fee in subsequent years shall be set/revised

as per the following guide lines.

1. An increase of 5% by every two years.

2. The user fee shall be rounded off to the nearest

rupees.

3. No user fee would be levied on the following types

of vehicles.

(a)

VIP vehicles and other special categories of

vehicles notified as exempted as per

notification to be published by Government of

Kerala.

(b) Two wheelers, three-wheelers and non-motorized

vehicles.

For frequent users of the transport facility, user fee

would be levied on the following basis.

(a) For a return journey at the rate equal to one and

a half (1.5) times the user fee for a single

journey.

(b) For two return trips or more in a single day at a

rate equal to 3 times the rate of a single journey.

(c) For a monthly pass an amount equal to the

aggregate user fee for 30 single journeys.

The above mentioned rates shall be conspicuously

displayed on boards erected at suitable places in the

vicinity of the Bridge/user fee collection booth legibilly

written or printed in English, Hindi and the regional

language of the area in which the bridge is situated.

Every driver, owner or person in-charge of the mechanical

vehicle shall, before crossing the permanent bridge or

having crossed it, stop his vehicles at the cross bar and

pay the fee leviable in respect of the vehicle at the fee

collection booth. The person authorized by the Managing

Director, RBDCK, Kochi to collect user fee in respect of

any mechanical vehicle crossing the bridge shall in return,

prepare a receipt in duplicate in the prescribed form and

hand over one copy of the said receipt to the driver or

owner or person in-charge of the vehicle.

(Sd.)

Chief Engineer.

(For Kerala Road

Fund Board)

Explanatory Note

(This does not form part of the notification but is

intended to indicate its general purport.)

The Road Over Bridge (ROB) at Nandi (in lieu LC

No. 206) between Koilandy and Thikkody (Kozhikode

District) and Muzhupilangad (in lieu of LC No. 232)

Between Edakkad and Dharmadam (Kannur District) was

constructed by Roads and Bridges Development

Corporation of Kerala Ltd. will opened to traffic shortly.

The user fee has to be levied on motor vehicles entering

the bridge under the provisions of the Kerala Road Fund

Act, 2001. It is therefore necessary to issue a notification

declaring the rates of user fee fixed by the Kerala Road

Fund Board to be levied on motor vehicles entering this

bridge under subsection 2 of section 8 of the said Act.

The notification is intended to achieve the above

object.