A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the department of transportation to acquire replacement right‑of‑way and to assign the easement rights of the replacement right‑of‑way to a utility, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE house Select Committee on Strategic Transportation Planning and Long Term Funding Solutions.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 136‑19.5(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Whenever the Department of Transportation requires the relocation of utilities, including cable service as defined in G.S. 105‑164.3, located in a right‑of‑way for which the utility owner contributed to the cost of acquisition, the Department of Transportation shall reimburse the utility owner for the cost of moving those utilities. The Department may, with the agreement of the utility owner, acquire a replacement right‑of‑way and assign the easement rights of the replacement right‑of‑way to the utility owner."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.