NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 559

HOUSE BILL 771

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-169 RELATING TO THE ERECTION OF TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES ON STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM STREETS WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES, AND AUTHORIZING THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO ASSUME THE COST THEREOF.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-169, as the same appears in the 1961 Supplement to the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding after the period "(.)" in the last sentence of that Section, the following:

"Provided, that all traffic signs, signals, markings, islands, and all other traffic control devices installed or erected on streets or highways on the State highway system within the corporate limits of a municipality shall be subject to the approval of the State Highway Commission and be installed or erected in substantial conformance with the specifications set forth in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, or any subsequent revisions of the same, published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads and dated June, 1961. Provided further that the State Highway Commission is authorized and directed to assume the cost of installing and erecting such traffic control devices provided the same are installed and erected with the approval of the State Highway Commission and in conformity with this Section, and the State Highway Commission is authorized and directed to assume the costs of altering existing traffic control devices on the State highway system to conform to the said specifications set out above."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective on and after October 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of May, 1963.