NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 798

SENATE BILL 639

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES TO MAINTAIN HIGHWAY SYSTEM STREETS BY CONTRACT WITH THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 66.1 of Chapter 136 as appears in 1964 Replacement Volume 3B of the North Carolina General Statutes is amended by adding thereto subsection (3) as follows:

"(3)      Maintenance of State Highway System by Municipalities. Any city or town, by written contract with the State Highway Commission, may undertake to maintain, repair, improve, construct, reconstruct or widen those streets within municipal limits which form a part of the State highway system, and may also, by written contract with the State Highway Commission, undertake to install, repair and maintain highway signs and markings, electric traffic signals and other traffic control devices on such streets. All work to be performed by the city or town under such contract or contracts shall be in accordance with State Highway Commission standards, and the consideration to be paid by the State Highway Commission to the city or town for such work, whether in money or in services, shall be adequate to reimburse the city or town for all costs and expenses, direct or indirect, incurred by it in the performance of such work."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1969.