A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the authority of the DEPARTMENT of TRANSPORTATION CONCERNING driveway connections to state highways.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 136‑18(29) reads as rewritten:
"§ 136‑18.  Powers of Department of Transportation.
"(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, traffic storage lanes, traffic control devices, and medians by others for the driveway connections onto any United States route, or North Carolina route, and on any secondary road route where the combined existing traffic and projected traffic generated by the proposed development meets or exceeds an average daily traffic volume of 4,000 vehicles per day or  if, in the opinion of the Department of Transportation, an unsafe condition will be created."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.