A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of transportation to remove or relocate AT‑Grade Railroad crossings in municipalities that have populations  greater than five hundred thousand people.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for the removal or relocation of at‑grade railroad crossings in municipalities that have populations greater than 500,000 persons, according to the most recent centennial federal census, to encourage economic development of undeveloped lands. The Department of Transportation may contract with an approved developer to remove or relocate the at‑grade railroad crossings and reimburse the developer from the appropriate funds.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.