NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 978

SENATE BILL 760

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES TO EXPEND FUNDS FOR IMPROVEMENTS UPON STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM STREETS IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 136-66.1 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (4) to read as follows:

"(4)      In the event that the governing body of any municipality shall determine that it is in the best interest of its citizens to do so, it may expend its funds for the purpose of making the following improvements on streets within its corporate limits which form a part of the State Highway system:

(a)        construction of curbing and guttering;

(b)        adding of lanes for automobile parking;

(c)        bearing that portion of the cost of constructing street drainage facilities which may by reasonable engineering estimates be attributable to that amount of surface water collected upon and flowing from municipal streets which do not form a part of the State Highway system;

(d)        constructing sidewalks; provided, that no part of the funds allocated to the municipality by G.S. 136.41.1 may be expended for sidewalk purposes.

In exercising the authority granted herein, the municipality may, with the consent of the State Highway Commission, perform the work itself, or it may enter into a contract with the State Highway Commission to perform such work. Any work authorized by this subsection may be financed jointly by the municipality and the State Highway Commission pursuant to a cost-sharing agreement entered into by each.

The cost of any work financed by a municipality pursuant to this subsection may be assessed against the properties abutting the street or highway upon which such work was performed in accordance with the procedures of either Article 9 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes or any charter provisions or local acts applicable to the particular municipality."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1969.