A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO WIDEN HIGHWAY 601 TO FOUR‑LANES LIMITED ACCESS FROM THE MONROE CITY LIMITS TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE, AND pending the completion of the widening TO GENERALLY provide a speed limit OF FORTY‑FIVE MILES PER HOUR ON THAT SEGMENT OF THE HIGHWAY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation the sum of thirty‑five million dollars ($35,000,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to complete the four‑laning of US Highway 601 as a limited access highway from US Highway74 to the South Carolina State line.
SECTION 2.  On any cross section of US Highway 601 that is not four lanes or more, except if either:
(1)	A lower speed limit is provided by law; or 
(2)	The Department of Transportation finds upon the recommendation of its safety engineers that a 45 mile per hour speed limit on any particular section of the road would be unsafe,
the maximum speed limit from the South Carolina state line to the Monroe City limits on that highway is 45 miles per hour.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.