GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
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HOUSE DRH60073-RWz-8* (12/2)
Short Title: DOT Driveway Connection Changes. |
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Sponsors: |
Representative Cole. |
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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.