In the latest chapter in years of battling about a Northwest Florida bridge, a Leon County circuit judge will hear arguments next week about whether he should force the state Department of Transportation to reinstate tolls on the span.

Representatives of bondholders want Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper to order collection of tolls on the Garcon Point Bridge. The state has not collected tolls on the bridge since Hurricane Sally in September, after bondholders and the Department of Transportation had clashed for years about raising tolls.