NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1129

SENATE BILL 538

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS WITH ADJOINING STATES RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS CONNECTING THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM WITH THE HIGHWAYS OF ADJOINING STATES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 136-18 is amended by adding a new subsection, to be designated subsection (23), immediately following the end of subsection (22) and reading as follows:

"(23)    When in the opinion of the State Highway Commission an economy in the expenditure of public funds can be effected thereby, the State Highway Commission shall have authority to enter into agreements with adjoining states regarding the planning, location, engineering, right of way acquisition and construction of roads and bridges connecting the North Carolina State Highway System with public roads in adjoining states, and the State Highway Commission shall have authority to do planning, surveying, locating, engineering, right of way acquisition and construction on short segments of roads and bridges in adjoining states with the cost of said work to be reimbursed by the adjoining state, and may also enter into agreements with adjoining states providing for the performance of and reimbursement to the adjoining state of the cost of such work done within the State of North Carolina by the adjoining state: Provided, that the State Highway Commission shall retain the right to approve any contract for work to be done in this State by an adjoining state for which the adjoining state is to be reimbursed."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1967.