A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO require the department of TRANSPORTATION to pay the nonbetterment relocation cost for moving a county‑owned gas line located on a department of TRANSPORTATION right‑of‑way if the gas line must be moved due to a department of TRANSPORTATION construction project.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 136-27.2. Relocation of county-owned natural gas lines located on Department of Transportation right-of-way.
The Department of Transportation shall pay the nonbetterment cost for the relocation of county-owned natural gas lines, located within the existing State highway right-of-way, that the Department needs to relocate due to a State highway improvement project."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,250,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year for use to relocate county‑owned natural gas lines located on Department of Transportation right‑of‑way.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.