GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 917

Short Title:  Toll Roads.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Odom.
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Referred to:  Transportation.
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE THE METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING TOLL ROADS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article to read:
"ARTICLE 6F.
"Toll Roads.
"§ 136-89.80.  Authority of county commissioners with regard to toll roads.
(a)	Upon a petition of ten percent (10%) of the citizens of the county, or upon its own motion, the Board of County Commissioners, after consultation with the Department of Transportation, and after a public hearing, may designate a proposed highway within the county as suitable as a toll road.
(b)	After the highway has been designated as suitable as a toll road, the citizens of the county in which the toll road is to be established shall vote, in a binding referendum, on the question of the establishment of that toll road.  If the referendum results in a majority vote in favor of the establishment of the toll road, then the Department of Transportation shall prepare the plans for, and the Board of Transportation shall approve, within one year, as part of the Transportation Improvement Program, the required construction to create the toll road.
(c)	For a proposed highway that crosses several counties, the Boards of County Commissioners and the voters of each of the counties through which the highway will pass shall approve the establishment of the toll road before any part of the highway is established as a toll road.  The referenda on the proposal shall be held at the same time in each county.  The counties bear the costs of any referendum under this section."
Sec. 2.  Prior to the construction of any toll road in North Carolina, the Department of Transportation shall submit to the General Assembly the legislation required to create a toll road authority to collect and distribute the tolls on the particular toll road.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective January 1, 1994.