STATE OF LOUISIANA

WASHINGTON PARISH

RESOLUTION NO. 11-540

A RESOLUTION INITIAL ANNUAL

CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH

STATE OF LOUISIANA

OFF - SYSTEM BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM

WHEREAS, the Code of Federal Regulations as enacted by the United States Congress mandates that all structures defined as bridges located on all public roads shall be inspected, rated for safe load capacity and posted in accordance with the National Bridge Inspection Standards and that an inventory of these bridges be maintained by each State; and

WHEREAS, the responsibility to inspect, rate and load post those bridges under the authority of Washington Parish in accordance with those standards is delegated by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to Washington Parish.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the governing authority of Washington Parish (herein referred to as the Parish) that the Parish in Regular Meeting assembled does hereby certify to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (herein referred to as the DOTD) that for the period of October 12, 2010 through October 30, 2011:

1. The parish will perform all interim inspections on all Parish owned or

maintained bridges in accordance with the National Bridge Inspection Standards.

2. All bridges owned or maintained by the Parish will be structurally analyzed

and rated by the parish as to the safe load capacity in accordance with AASHTO Manual for Maintenance Inspection of Bridges. The load posting information that has been determined by the LA DOTD for all bridges where the maximum legal load under Louisiana State law exceeds the load permitted under the operating rating as determined above will be critically reviewed by the Parish. Load posting information will be updated by the Parish to reflect all structural changes, any obsolete structural ratings or any missing structural ratings.

3. All Parish owned or maintained bridges which require load posting or closing

shall be load posted or closed in accordance with the table in the DOTD Engineering Directives and Standards Manual Directive No. 1.1.8. All DOTD supplied load posting information concerning a bridge shall be critically reviewed by the Parish Engineer prior to load posting.

4. All bridges owned or maintained by the Parish are shown on the attached list

in the format specified by the DOTD. Corrections to date supplied to the Parish by the LA DOTD are noted.

These stipulations are prerequisites to participation by the Parish in the Off-System Bridge Replacement Program.

This resolution was considered section by section and as a whole and upon motion by __Michael Fussell_____, being seconded by __Greg Route___, was

adopted on the _11th__day of __October___, 2011.

Having submitted to a vote, the vote resulted as follows:

YEAS: (7) Johnson, Thomas, Route, Wheat, Fussell and Nassauer

NAYS: (0)

ABSENT: (0)

ABSTAINED: (0)

WASHINGTON PARISH COUNCIL

___SIGNATURE________

Aubrey Posey, Chairman

WASHINGTON PARISH GOVERNMENT

______SIGNATURE____________

Richard N. Thomas, Jr., President

CERTIFICATION

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Washington Parish Council duly convened in regular session _October 10__, 2011, in Franklinton, Louisiana.

GIVEN UNDER MY OFFICIAL SIGNATURE AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this __11th_day of ___October__, 2011, Franklinton, Louisiana.

____SIGNATURE_____________

Sharon Lyons, Clerk of the Council

Washington Parish

Resolution No.11-540