GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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HOUSE BILL 941

Short Title:  DOT Toll Road Study.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Crawford; McMahan and Mitchell.

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Referred to:  Rules, Calendar and Operations of the House.

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April 7, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIRECT CERTAIN METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING DEMONSTRATION TOLL ROADS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Each Metropolitan Planning Organization encompassing a county with a population of 550,000 persons or more according to the latest county population estimate of the Office of State Planning shall, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, study the feasibility of establishing toll road facilities on specific roads within that county.
Section 2.  The study shall be financed with funds already available to the Department of Transportation.
Section 3.  The final study report shall include the designation of one route in each qualifying county to serve as a toll road facility demonstration project.  The report shall include preliminary planning information as to the location or locations of toll facilities and estimates of the anticipated costs and returns from those facilities.
Section 4.  The final report shall be submitted to the November 1999 meeting of the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee for its review and recommendation to the 2000 Session of the General Assembly.
Section 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.