(1) Every driver, owner or person incharge of a mechanical vehicle shall, before crossing the National Highway Section or permanent bridge or having crossed it, stop his vehicle at the cross bar and pay the fee leviable in respect of the vehicles at the fee collection booths. The Fee Inspector shall in return, prepare a receipt in duplicate in Form A and hand over one copy of the receipt to the driver or owner or person incharge of the mechanical vehicle.
(2) Toll collection shall be done only at one place within a distance of 80 kms. from a point at the beginning of first National Highway Section or approach of entry of the first permanent bridge to be crossed under the jurisdiction of the same executing agency, regardless of number of projects falling within the length in order to facilitate free and unhindered movement of traffic. Where it is not feasible to do so, the number of collection point shall be kept minimum and shall be decided with the approval of Central Government. The fee may be collected from the driver, owner or person incharge of a vehicle on the first National Highway Section or permanent bridge which is intended to be crossed by such vehicle. The driver, owner or person incharge of the vehicle holding the receipt of such payment shall be allowed to pass through other Sections and bridges of such Highway unhindered after showing the receipt to the Fee Inspector posted on other sections or bridges. Details of such Sections and bridges shall be displayed at a conspicuous place near the fees collection booths of the Sections or bridges covered under this sub—rule legibly written or printed in English, Hindi and the regional language of the area in which such sections or bridges are situated.
(3) The Fee Inspector shall on receipt of the fee notified by the Central Government fill up a receipt in duplicate in Form A and deliver one copy thereof to the driver, owner or the person incharge of the vehicle in respect of which the fee has been paid and retain the second copy for record.
76 The National Highways (Fees for the use of National Highways Section and Permanent Bridge—Public Funded Project) Flu/es, 1997
(4) When the same vehicle has to cross the National Highway Section or bridge more than once in a day) the user shall have the option to pay one and a half times of rate notified by the Government while crossing such section or bridge in the first trip itself, or if the vehicle has to use the section or bridge frequently the vehicle owner can have a monthly pass on the payment of charges equal to 30 single rates,