NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 977

SENATE BILL 838

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 136 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO PERMIT THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PAVED STREETS AND ROADS UPON THE CAMPUS OF EACH INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING, EACH HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY, AND EACH SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, OR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 136 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by adding a new subdivision at the end of G.S. 136-18, to be designated subdivision (24), to read as follows:

"(24)    The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to design, construct, repair, and maintain paved streets and roads upon the campus of each of the State's institutions of higher education, at State-owned hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis, State-owned orthopedic hospitals, juvenile correction centers, mental health hospitals and retarded centers, schools for the deaf, and schools for the blind, when such construction, maintenance, or repairs have been authorized by the General Assembly in the Appropriations Bills enacted by the General Assembly. Cost for such construction, maintenance, and repairs shall be borne by the Highway Fund. Upon the General Assembly authorizing the construction, repair, or maintenance of a paved road or drive upon any of the above- mentioned institutions, the Highway Commission shall give such project priority to insure that it shall be accomplished as soon as feasible, at the minimum cost to the State, and in any event during the biennium for which the authorization shall have been given by the General Assembly."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of July, 1971.