Title: DRS15236-LK-205A (5/6)
Category: Bill Draft

General Assembly of North Carolina	Session 2003

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
S	D
SENATE DRS15236-LK-205A  (5/6)

Short Title:	Small Urban Contingency Funds. | (Public)
Sponsors: | Senator Jenkins.
Referred to: |

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide for small urban contingency funds.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation in the Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2004:
(1)	Twenty‑eight million dollars ($28,000,000) shall be allocated in fiscal year 2004‑2005 for small urban construction projects. These funds shall be allocated equally in each fiscal year of the biennium among the 14 Highway Divisions for the small urban construction program for small construction projects that are located within the area covered by a two‑mile radius of the municipal corporate limits.
(2)	Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) in fiscal year 2004‑2005 shall be used statewide for rural or small urban highway improvements and related transportation enhancements to public roads and public facilities, industrial access roads, and spot safety projects.
None of these funds used for rural secondary road construction are subject to the county allocation formulas in G.S. 136‑44.5(b) and (c).
These funds are not subject to G.S. 136‑44.7.
The Department of Transportation shall report to the members of the General Assembly on projects funded pursuant to this section in each member's district prior to the Board of Transportation's action. The Department shall make a quarterly comprehensive report on the use of these funds to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee and the Fiscal Research Division.
SECTION 2.  Section 29.2 of S.L. 2003‑284 is repealed.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.

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