GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1205

Short Title:  Highway Logo Fees.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Gottovi.
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Referred to:  Finance.
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April 27, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO RAISE LOGO FEES ON STATE HIGHWAYS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 136-89.56 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136-89.56.  Commercial enterprises.
No commercial enterprises or activities shall be authorized or conducted by the Department of Transportation, or the governing body of any city or town, within or on the property acquired for or designated as a controlled-access facility, as defined in this Article, except for vending machines permitted by the Department of Transportation and placed by the Division of Services for the Blind, Department of Human Resources, as the State licensing agency designated pursuant to Section 2(a)(5) of the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 USC 107a(a)(5)).  The Department of Transportation shall regulate the placing of the vending machines in highway rest areas and shall regulate the articles to be dispensed.  In order to permit the establishment of adequate fuel and other service facilities by private owners or their lessees for the users of a controlled-access facility, the Department of Transportation shall permit access to service or frontage roads within the publicly owned right-of-way of any controlled-access facility established or designated as provided in this Article, at points which, in the opinion of the Department of Transportation, will best serve the public interest.  The location of such fuel and other service facilities may be indicated to the users of the controlled-access facilities by appropriate signs, the size, style, and specifications of which shall be determined by the Department of Transportation.
The location of fuel and other service facilities may be indicated to the users of the controlled access facilities by appropriate logos placed on signs owned, controlled, and erected by the Department of Transportation.  The owners, operators or lessees of fuel and other service facilities who wish to place a logo identifying their business or service on a sign shall furnish a logo meeting the size, style and specifications determined by the Department of Transportation and shall pay the Department for the costs of initial installation and subsequent maintenance.  The fees for logo sign installation and maintenance shall be set by the Board of Transportation based on cost.
Owners, operators, or lessees shall pay a fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per year for each logo placed in accordance with this section, in addition to the costs of initial installation and subsequent maintenance.  This fee shall be deposited into the Highway Fund."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.