NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 327

SENATE BILL 425

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE GASTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TO CONSTRUCT SCHOOL SIDEWALKS ON PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 115-131, the Gaston County Board of Education is authorized to construct sidewalks on the right-of-way of any public street or highway adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of any public school building when the board finds that such sidewalk is necessary or desirable for the safety of children attending that school and when permission to construct such sidewalk has been given by the agency having authority to license encroachments on the right-of-way.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1979.