GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

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HOUSE BILL 249*

Short Title:     DOT Driveway Connection Changes.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative Cole.
Referred to:	Transportation.

February 16, 2005

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to amend the authority of the DEPARTMENT of TRANSPORTATION CONCERNING driveway connections to state highways.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. G.S. 136-18(29) reads as rewritten:

"§ 136-18.  Powers of Department of Transportation.

"(29)   The Department of Transportation may establish policies and adopt rules about the size, location, direction of traffic flow, and the construction of driveway connections into any street or highway which is a part of the State Highway System. The Department of Transportation may require the construction and public dedication of acceleration and deceleration lanes, and traffic storage lanes lanes, traffic control devices, and medians by others for the driveway connections into onto any United States route, or North Carolina route, and on any secondary road route with an where the combined existing traffic and projected traffic generated by the proposed development meets or exceeds an average daily traffic volume of 4,000 vehicles per day or more. if, in the opinion of the Department of Transportation, an unsafe condition will be created."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.