A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the department of TRANSPORTATION secondary road construction formula, as recommended by the Joint LEGISLATIVE Transportation oversight committee.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 136‑44.5(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The first sixty‑eight million six hundred seventy thousand dollars ($68,670,000) shall be allocated as follows: Each county shall receive a percentage of these funds, the percentage to be determined as a factor of the number of miles of paved and unpaved State‑maintained secondary roads in the county divided by the total number of miles of paved and unpaved State‑maintained secondary roads in the State, excluding those unpaved secondary roads that have been determined to be eligible for paving as defined in subsection (a) of this section. Beginning in fiscal year 2010‑2011, allocations pursuant to this subsection shall be based on the total number of secondary miles in a county in proportion to the total State‑maintained secondary road mileage."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.