NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1172

SENATE BILL 149

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 136 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO REQUIRE THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO MARK PAVED ROADS WITH CENTER AND PAVEMENT EDGE LINES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by inserting a new section immediately following G.S. 136-30 and immediately preceding G.S. 13631, to be designated G.S. 136-30.1 and reading as follows:

"Sec. 136-30.1.  Center line and pavement edge line markings.

"(a)       The State Highway Commission shall mark with center lines and edge lines all Inter-state and primary roads and all paved secondary roads having an average traffic volume of 200 vehicles per day or more, and which are traffic service roads forming a connecting link in the State Highway System. The State Highway Commission shall not be required to mark with center and edge lines local subdivision roads, loop roads, dead-end roads of less than one mile in length or roads the major purpose of which is to serve the abutting property, nor shall the Commission be required to mark with edge lines those roads on which curbing has been installed or which are less than sixteen feet in width.

"(b)      Whenever the State Highway Commission shall construct a new paved road, relocate an existing paved road, resurface an existing paved road, or pave an existing road which under the provisions of Subsection (a) hereof is required to be marked with lines, the Commission shall, within thirty days from the completion of the construction, resurfacing or paving, mark the said road with the lines required in Subsection (a) hereof.

"(c)       The center and pavement edge lines required by this section shall be installed and maintained in conformance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads, dated June 1, 1961, or any subsequent revisions thereof approved by the State Highway Commission."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1969.