association or corporation desiring the use of any part thereof,
including the right-of-way adjoining the paved portion, for
placing thereon telephone, telegraph, electric light or power
lines, gas stations, garages, stores, hotels, restaurants and
advertising signs or for any other purpose, except [for service
plazas in the right-of-way along Interstate 80 and] for tracks
for railroad or railway use; and to fix the terms, conditions,
rents and rates of charges for use. Tolls shall be fixed and
adjusted as to provide funds at least sufficient with other
revenues of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System, if any, to pay all
of the following:
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Section 2. Section 8915 introductory paragraph of Title 75
is amended to read:
§ 8915. Conversion to toll roads.
In order to facilitate vehicular traffic within and across
this Commonwealth, and to facilitate the completion of the
turnpike extensions and improvements authorized in section 8911
(relating to improvement and extension authorizations), and
subject to [prior legislative] State legislation enacted after
April 30, 2017, and approval by [the General Assembly and] the
United States Congress, the commission is hereby authorized and
empowered to convert to toll roads such portions of
Pennsylvania's interstate highway system as may facilitate the
completion of the turnpike extensions and improvements
authorized in sections 8912 (relating to subsequent extension
authorizations), 8913 (relating to additional subsequent
extension authorizations) and 8914 (relating to further
subsequent authorizations) and to operate and maintain such
converted interstates as toll roads upon the approval by the
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