NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 325

SENATE BILL 297

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO LEASE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 40 TO THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM FOR A PARKING FACILITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to lease to the City of Winston-Salem the portion of the right-of-way of Interstate Highway 40 below the elevated roadway and lying between Trade Street and Liberty Street, exclusive of any railroad right-of-way, for a parking facility, the lease to provide for subleasing of the right-of-way in whole or in part by the City of Winston-Salem for private parking; provided, in the opinion of the Department of Transportation such parking facility will not unreasonably interfere with or impair any property rights and easements of abutting owners, unreasonably interfere with or obstruct the public use of Interstate Highway 40 nor unreasonably interfere with or obstruct the maintenance of the highway structure located on the right-of-way.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1981.