A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to Amend the Provisions of G.S. 105‑550 to Permit the Use of the Vehicle Rental Tax by Certain Regional Public Transportation Entities that Operate by Interlocal Agreement Among the Municipalities in a Single County.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  S.L. 1997‑417 is amended by adding a new section to read:
"SECTION 3.1. Any county where Section 1 of this act applies shall be considered to be an authority for the purpose of Section 3 of this act. Any reference to the board of trustees of an authority under Section 3 of that act means the board of commissioners as that section applies to a county under this section. Funds may be used only for financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining local public transportation systems, and the county shall appropriate and transfer the proceeds of the tax to the largest city in that county operating a public transportation system."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 105‑510(b), as enacted by Section 1 of S.L. 1997‑417, reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Use. – A county must allocate the net proceeds distributed to it in accordance with its financial plan adopted pursuant to G.S. 105‑507 and use the net proceeds only for financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining local public transportation systems. Any other unit of local government may use the net proceeds distributed to it under this Article only for financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining local public transportation systems. Every unit of government shall use the net proceeds to supplement and not to supplant or replace existing funds or other resources for public transportation  systems, except that if a unit receives the proceeds from an additional tax dedicated to public transportation, such proceeds may be used to supplant or replace existing funds or other resources."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.