NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1128

SENATE BILL 537

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND PART 3 OF ARTICLE 3 OF CHAPTER 136 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO CLARIFY THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION WITH REGARD TO THE ALTERATION OR ABANDONMENT OF PORTIONS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 136-54, as the same appears in the 1965 Supplement to Volume 3B, is amended by striking out immediately following the word "of" in line 1 thereof and immediately preceding "136-60" in line 2 thereof, the following: "§ 136-56, and".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 136-55 is amended by rewriting the same to read as follows:

"Section 136-55.  Notice of Relocation or Abandonment of Numbered Highways. Upon the approval by the Commission of the preliminary design for the relocation or construction upon new location of any State, Federal or Interstate numbered highways, the State Highway Commission shall post a map at the courthouse door in the county or counties where the proposed project is located showing the existing location and the new location of said highway. In addition, said map shall show any segments of the existing highways which are to be abandoned and removed from the State Highway System for maintenance by the Commission upon completion and opening to traffic of the new or relocated highway."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 136-55.1 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 136-55.1.  Notice of Abandonment. At least 60 days prior to any action by the State Highway Commission abandoning a segment of road and removing the same from the State Highway System for maintenance, except roads abandoned on request of the County Commissioners under G.S. 136-63, the State Highway Commission shall notify by registered mail or personal delivery all owners of property adjoining the section of road to be abandoned whose whereabouts can be ascertained by due diligence. Said notice shall describe the section of road which is proposed to be abandoned and shall give the date, place and time of the Commission meeting at which the action abandoning said section of road is to be taken."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 136-56 is hereby repealed in its entirety.

Sec. 5.  G.S. 136-59 is amended by striking out that portion of the statute immediately following the phrase "or municipal corporation," appearing in line 4 thereof and reading as follows: "other than the road governing body of the county in which said road is situated, or the county seat or principal town affected as defined in Section 136-55 by any change, alteration or abandonment."

Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1967.