GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2011-207

HOUSE BILL 229

AN ACT to allow a public transportation authority or Regional Public transportation authority to apply for elderly and disabled transportation and assistance funds on behalf of the counties that the public transportation authority or regional public transportation authority serves.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 136-44.27 reads as rewritten:

"§ 136-44.27.  North Carolina Elderly and Disabled Transportation Assistance Program.

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(e)        Funds distributed by the Department under this section shall be used by counties counties, public transportation authorities, or regional public transportation authorities in a manner consistent with transportation development plans which have been approved by the Department and the Board of County Commissioners. To receive funds apportioned for a given fiscal year, a county shall have an approved transportation development plan. Funds that are not obligated in a given fiscal year due to the lack of such a plan will be distributed to the eligible counties based upon the distribution formula prescribed by subsection (d) of this section.

(f) A regional public transportation authority created pursuant to Article 25 or Article 26 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes may, upon written agreement with the municipalities served by a public transportation authority or counties served by the regional public transportation authority, apply for and receive any funds to which the member municipality or counties are entitled to receive based on the distribution formula set out in subsection (d) of this section."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15^th day of June, 2011.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

Approved 11:58 a.m. this 23^rd day of June, 2011