28-6540. Arizona highway user revenue fund
distribution; state highway fund; county, city and town
proportions


Each month the state treasurer shall distribute all revenues credited to the Arizona
highway user revenue fund pursuant to the proportions prescribed in section 28-6538,
subsection A as follows:


1. Revenues allocated to the counties shall be further distributed to each
individual county, the distribution to which was not restricted pursuant to section
28-6543, subsection A, as follows:


(a) Seventy-two per cent based on the proportion that all reported sales of motor
vehicle fuel subject to sections 28-5619 and 28-5620 and the estimated consumption of use
fuel in the county bear to the total sales of motor vehicle fuel and the estimated
consumption of use fuel throughout this state during the preceding calendar month.


(b) Twenty-eight per cent based on the proportion that the population of the
unincorporated area of each county bears to the population of the unincorporated areas of
all counties in this state.


2. Revenues allocated to the incorporated cities and towns pursuant to section
28-6538, subsection A, paragraph 3 shall be distributed on the basis of the following
apportionments:


(a) One-half shall be apportioned to each city or town, the distribution to which
was not restricted pursuant to section 28-6543, subsection A, on the basis that the
population of each bears to the population of all cities and towns in this state.


(b) Subject to section 28-6543, subsection A, the remaining one-half shall be
apportioned first on the basis of the county origin of all reported sales of motor
vehicle fuels in this state subject to sections 28-5619 and 28-5620, which amount shall
be further apportioned among the several incorporated cities and towns in each county in
the proportion that the population of each city or town bears to the total population of
all cities and towns in the county.


3. Revenues allocated to incorporated cities with a population of three hundred
thousand or more persons shall be apportioned among the cities, the distribution to which
was not restricted pursuant to section 28-6543, subsection A, for the acquisition of
rights-of-way or construction of streets or highways based on population.