AN ACT to allow the placement of traffic tables or traffic calming devices on those portions of state roads within a RESIDENTIAL subdivision.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Article 7 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 136‑102.8.  Subdivision streets; traffic calming devices.
The Department shall establish policies and procedures for the installation or utilization of traffic tables or traffic calming devices erected on State‑maintained subdivision streets adopted by the Department, pursuant to G.S. 136‑102.6, if all of the following requirements are met:
(1)	A traffic engineering study has been approved by the Department detailing types and locations of traffic calming devices.
(2)	Installation and utilization of traffic tables or traffic calming devices is within one of the following areas:
a.	A subdivision with a homeowners association.
b.	A neighborhood in which the property owners have established a contractual agreement outlining responsibility for traffic calming devices installed in the neighborhood.
(3)	The traffic tables or traffic calming devices are paid for and maintained by the subdivision homeowners association, or its successor, or pursuant to a neighborhood agreement.
(4)	The homeowners association has the written support, for the installation of each traffic table or traffic calming device approved by the Department pursuant to this section, of at least seventy percent (70%) of the member property owners, or the neighborhood agreement is signed by at least seventy percent (70%) of the neighborhood property owners.
(5)	The homeowners association, or neighborhood pursuant to its agreement, posts a performance bond with the Department sufficient to fund maintenance or removal of the traffic tables or calming devices, if the homeowners association, or neighborhood pursuant to its agreement, fails to maintain them, or is dissolved. The bond shall remain in place for a period of three years from the date of installation."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009, and applies to traffic tables and traffic calming devices installed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of July, 2009.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 5:29 p.m. this 17th day of July, 2009