GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-264
SENATE BILL 637

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO SET CERTAIN SPEED LIMITS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the City of Charlotte, being Chapter 713 of the 1965 Session Laws, is amended by adding the following new section to Article 1 of Subchapter A of Article VI:
"Section 6.27. Speed Limits.  The Director of Transportation may establish speed limits, as required by G.S. 20-141, on streets within the City of Charlotte, on behalf of the local governing body, the Charlotte City Council."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of July, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives