GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 311

SENATE BILL 397

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR DRIVEWAY PERMIT PROCESSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 136-18 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(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 and medians by others for the driveway connections into any United States route, or North Carolina route, and on any service road route with an average daily traffic volume of 4,000 vehicles per day or more."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of June, 1987.