GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	1
SENATE BILL 671

 
 
Short Title:	Cary Construct and Operate Toll Roads.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Gulley; and Lucas.	
Referred to:	Transportation.	
March 22, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF CARY TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE TOLL ROADS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑296(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	A city shall have general authority and control over all public streets, sidewalks, alleys, bridges, and other ways of public passage within its corporate limits except to the extent that authority and control over certain streets and bridges is vested in the Board of Transportation. General authority and control includes but is not limited to:
(1)	The duty to keep the public streets, sidewalks, alleys, and bridges in proper repair;
(2)	The duty to keep the public streets, sidewalks, alleys, and bridges open for travel and free from unnecessary obstructions;
(3)	The power to open new streets and alleys, and to widen, extend, pave, clean, and otherwise improve existing streets, sidewalks, alleys, and bridges, and to acquire the necessary land therefor by dedication and acceptance, purchase, or eminent domain;
(4)	The power to close any street or alley either permanently or temporarily;
(5)	The power to regulate the use of the public streets, sidewalks, alleys, and bridges;
(6)	The power to regulate, license, and prohibit digging in the streets, sidewalks, or alleys, or placing therein or thereon any pipes, poles, wires, fixtures, or appliances of any kind either on, above, or below the surface;
(7)	The power to provide for lighting the streets, alleys, and bridges of the city; 
(8)	The power to grant easements in street rights‑of‑way as permitted by G.S. 160A-273; and
(9)	The power to construct and operate toll roads."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the Town of Cary only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.