NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1214

HOUSE BILL 1952

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING COUNTIES TO PROVIDE MASS TRANSIT SERVICES TO THE END THAT COUNTIES AND CITIES MAY COOPERATE IN PROVIDING ALTERNATIVES TO PRIVATE PASSENGER AUTOMOBILES.

 

Whereas, city governments have authority to provide mass transit services pursuant to G.S. Chapter 160A, Article 16; and

Whereas, cities and counties are authorized by G.S. Chapter 160A, Article 20 to jointly provide any public service that they may provide alone; and

Whereas, the current energy crisis has emphasized the need for local cooperation in providing mass transit services to the people as an alternative to private passenger automobiles, but counties are not presently authorized to provide such services; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-274, as enacted by Chapter 822 of the Session Laws of 1973, and as the same appears in Pamphlet No. 8 of the Advance Legislative Service to the General Statutes of North Carolina, is amended by changing the period at the end of the section to a comma and by inserting a new paragraph therein as follows:

"(6)      Bus lines and mass transit systems."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1974.