GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 488
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 136-18(12) reads as rewritten:
"(12) The Department of Transportation shall
have such powers as are necessary to comply fully with the provisions of the present
or future federal aid acts. Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency
Act of 1991, Pub. L. No. 102-240, 105 Stat. 1914 (1991), as amended, and all other
federal aid acts and programs the Department is authorized to administer.
The said Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to enter into
all contracts and agreements with the United States government relating to
survey, construction, improvement and maintenance of roads, urban area traffic
operations studies and improvement projects on the streets on the State highway
system and on the municipal system in urban areas, under the provisions of the
present or future congressional enactments, to submit such scheme or program of
construction or improvement and maintenance as may be required by the Secretary
of Transportation or otherwise provided by federal acts, and to do all other
things necessary to carry out fully the cooperation contemplated and provided
for by present or future aid acts of Congress for the construction or
improvement and maintenance of federal aid of State highways. The good
faith and credit of the State are further hereby pledged to make available
funds necessary to meet the requirements of the acts of Congress, present or
future, appropriating money to construct and improve rural post roads and
apportioned to this State during each of the years for which federal funds are
now or may hereafter be apportioned by the said act or acts, to maintain the
roads constructed or improved with the aid of funds so appropriated and to make
adequate provisions for carrying out such construction and maintenance.
The good faith and credit of the State are further pledged to maintain such roads
now built with federal aid and hereafter to be built and to make adequate
provisions for carrying out such maintenance. Upon request of the
Department of Transportation and in order to enable it to meet the requirements
of acts of Congress with respect to federal aid funds apportioned to the State
of North Carolina, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized, with the approval
of the Governor and Council of State, to issue short term notes from time to
time, and in anticipation of State highway revenue, and to be payable out of
State highway revenue for such sums as may be necessary to enable the
Department of Transportation to meet the requirements of said federal aid
appropriations, but in no event shall the outstanding notes under the
provisions of this section amount to more than two million dollars
($2,000,000)."
Sec. 2. G.S. 136-44.20(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) Of the amount
appropriated to the Department each year for State construction under the
Transportation Improvement Program, the Department may use up to five million
dollars ($5,000,000) to develop economical transit alternatives to highway
construction. These alternatives may include high occupancy vehicle lanes
and rail routes. routes and providing the matching share of federal
grants for transit alternatives to highway construction."
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of July, 1993.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives