GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1090

HOUSE BILL 1793

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO PAY FOR NONBETTERMENT COSTS OF CERTAIN WATER LINE RELOCATIONS IN THE HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 2 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 136-27.1.  Relocation of water lines of municipalities and nonprofit water corporations and associations. - The Department of Transportation shall pay the nonbetterment cost for the relocation of water lines, located within the existing State highway right-of-way, which are necessary to be relocated for a State highway improvement project and which are owned by: (1) a municipality with a population of 5,000 or less according to the latest decennial census; or (2) a nonprofit water association or corporation."

Sec. 2.  This act shall apply to State highway improvement projects let to contract after the effective date of this act.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1984.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1984.