A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allocate the upper level of state parking deck 65 to the legislative services commission and to authorize a fee for the purpose of providing additional lighting and security to the parking deck.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 120‑32.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 120‑32.1.  Use and maintenance of buildings and grounds.
(a)	The Legislative Services Commission shall:
(1)	Establish policy for the use of the State legislative buildings and grounds.
(2)	Maintain and care for the State legislative buildings and grounds, but the Commission may delegate the actual work of the maintenance of those buildings and grounds to the Department of Administration, which shall perform the work as delegated.
(3)	Provide security for the State legislative buildings and grounds.
(4)	Allocate space within the State legislative buildings and grounds.
(5)	Have the exclusive authority to assign parking space in the State legislative buildings and grounds.
(6)	Have the authority to charge a fee of up to five dollars ($5.00) per month for parking spaces located in the upper level of State Parking Deck 65. This fee is in addition to any existing parking fee and shall be used to provide additional lighting and security features for the parking deck. The authority to charge the fee only applies when the General Assembly is in regular session.
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(d)	For the purposes of this section, the term "State legislative buildings and grounds" means:
(1)	
	The State Legislative Building.
	
(1a)	The areas between the outer walls of the State Legislative Building and the far curbline of those sections of Jones, Wilmington, Salisbury, and Lane Streets that border the land on which it is situated.
(1b)	The Legislative Office Building, which shall include the following areas:
a.	The garden area and outer stairway.
b.	The loading dock area bounded by the wall on the east abutting the Halifax Street Mall, the southern edge of the southernmost exit lane on Salisbury Street for the parking deck, and the Salisbury Street sidewalk.
c.	The area between its outer wall and the near curbline of that section of Lane Street that borders the land on which it is situated.
d.	The area bounded by its western outer wall, the extension of a line along its northern outer wall to the middle of Salisbury Street, following the middle line of Salisbury Street to the nearest point of the intersection of Lane and Salisbury Streets, and thence east to the near curbline of the Legislative Office Building at its southwestern corner.
(1c)	Any State‑owned parking lot which is leased to the General Assembly.
(1d)	The bridge between the State Legislative Building and the Halifax Street Mall.
(1e)	A portion of the brick sidewalk surface area of the Halifax Street Mall, described as follows: beginning at the northeast corner of the Legislative Office Building, thence east across the brick sidewalk to the inner edge of the sidewalk adjacent to the grassy area of the Mall, thence south along the inner edge of the sidewalk to the southwest outer corner of the grassy area of the Mall, thence east along the inner edge of the sidewalk adjacent to the southern outer edge of the grassy area of the Mall to a point north of the northeast corner of the pedestrian surface of the Lane Street pedestrian bridge, thence south from that point to the northeast corner of the pedestrian surface of the bridge, thence west along the southern edge of the brick sidewalk area of the Mall to the southeast corner of the Legislative Office Building, thence north along the east wall of the Legislative Office Building, to the point of beginning.
(1f)	From the center of Lane Street to the far curbline on the south side of the street; between the western edge of the Lane Street driveway to the gardens behind the State Records Center, and Wilmington Street.
(2)	Repealed by Session Laws 1998‑156, s. 1, effective September 24, 1998.
(3)	The upper level of State Parking Deck 65 located under the Halifax Street Mall."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.