GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 131

HOUSE BILL 167

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO RAISE AND LOWER THE STATUTORY SPEED LIMITS ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES HAVING A NONFUNCTIONING GOVERNMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-141 is amended by adding a new paragraph to G.S. 20-141(f) to read as follows:

"The Department of Transportation is authorized to raise or lower the statutory speed limit on all highways on the State Highway System within municipalities which do not have a governing body to enact municipal ordinances as provided by law. The Department of Transportation shall determine a reasonable and safe speed limit in the same manner as is provided in G.S. 20- 141(d)(1) and G.S. 20-141(d)(2) for changing the speed limits outside of municipalities, without action of the municipality."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective July 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1983.