A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require railroad corporations to pay some nonbetterment costs for the movement of utilities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 136-190.1.	  Railroad corporations to pay some nonbetterment costs.
A railroad corporation shall pay the nonbetterment costs of the relocation of water and sewer lines that are within existing railroad rights-of-way, that are owned by a sanitary district, and that have to be relocated as part of a rail transportation improvement project."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.