GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997
SESSION LAW 1998-156
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 120-32.1(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) For the purposes of this section, the term "State legislative buildings and grounds" means:
(1) At all times:
a. The State Legislative Building;
a1. The areas
between the outer walls of the State Legislative Building and the near curbline
of those sections of Jones, Wilmington, and Salisbury Streets which border land
on which it is situated;
a2. The area areas
between the outer walls of the State Legislative Building and the far
curbline of those sections of Jones, Wilmington, Salisbury, and Lane Streets
that border that section of Lane Street which borders the land on
which it is situated;
b. The
Legislative Office Building Building, its garden area and outer
stairway, and the areas between its outer walls and the near curbline of
those sections of Lane and Salisbury Streets that border the land on which it
is situated;
c. Any
State-owned parking lot which is leased to the General Assembly; and
d. The bridge
between the State Legislative Building and the State Governmental Mall. Mall;
and
e. A portion of the brick sidewalk surface area of the State Government Mall, described as follows: beginning at the northeast corner of the Legislative Office Building, thence east across the brick sidewalk to the inner edge of the sidewalk adjacent to the grassy area of the Mall, thence south along the inner edge of the sidewalk to the southwest outer corner of the Mall water fountain, thence east along the southern outer edge of the fountain to a point north of the northeast corner of the pedestrian surface of the Lane Street pedestrian bridge, thence south from that point to the northeast corner of the pedestrian surface of the bridge, thence west along the southern edge of the brick sidewalk area of the Mall to the southeast corner of the Legislative Office Building, thence north along the east wall of the Legislative Office Building, to the point of beginning.
(2) In addition,
the surface area to the far curbline of those sections of Jones, Wilmington,
and Salisbury Streets which border the land on which the State Legislative
Building is situated:
a. When
the General Assembly is in regular or extra session; and
b. On
other days on which one or more standing committees of either or both houses of
the General Assembly are meeting and the Legislative Services Officer
determines that additional parking is needed for the functioning of the General
Assembly and files notice of the committee's or committees' meetings and his
finding that additional parking is needed in the office of the Secretary of
State and that of Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake County."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of September, 1998.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 3:36 p.m. this 24th day of September, 1998