GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2003-112
HOUSE BILL 22
AN ACT TO authorize the department of transportation to use the portion of contract MAINTENANCE RESURFACING funds ALLOCATED to widening EXISTING narrow pavements scheduled for resurfacing to widen any existing narrow pavements and to authorize the department of transportation to use HIGHWAY Trust fund secondary road paving funds allocated to each county for the additional purpose of safety IMPROVEMENTS on paved and unpaved roads in the same county, as recommended by the Joint LEGISLATIVE Transportation Oversight committee.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 136-44.16 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136-44.16.
Resurfaced roads may be widened.Authorized use of contract
maintenance resurfacing program funds.
Of the contract maintenance resurfacing program funds
appropriated by the General Assembly to the Department of Transportation, an
amount not to exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the Board of Transportation's
allocation of these funds may be used for widening existing narrow pavements
that are scheduled for resurfacing.pavements."
SECTION 2. G.S. 136-182 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136-182. Supplement for secondary road construction.
Funds are allocated from the Trust Fund to increase
allocations for secondary road construction made under G.S. 136-44.2A so that
all State-maintained unpaved secondary roads with a traffic vehicular
equivalent of at least 50 vehicles a day can be paved by the 1998-99
2009-2010 fiscal year. This supplement shall be discontinued when the
Department of Transportation certifies that, with funds available from sources
other than the Trust Fund, all State-maintained unpaved secondary roads,
regardless of their traffic vehicular equivalent, can be paved during the
following six years. If all the State-maintained roads in a county have been
paved under G.S. 136-44.7, except those that have unavailable rights-of-way or
for which environmental permits cannot be approved to allow for paving, then
the funds may be used for safety improvements on the paved or unpaved secondary
roads in that county. If the supplement is discontinued before the Trust
Fund terminates, the funds that would otherwise be allocated under this section
shall be added to the allocation from the Trust Fund for projects of the
Intrastate System."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of May, 2003.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Richard T. Morgan
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 11:30 a.m. this 31st day of May, 2003