136-66.1. Responsibility for streets inside municipalities. Responsibility for streets and highways inside the corporate limits of municipalities is hereby defined as follows: (1) The State Highway System. – The State highway system inside the corporate limits of municipalities shall consist of a system of major streets and highways necessary to move volumes of traffic efficiently […]
136-66.2. Development of a coordinated transportation system and provisions for streets and highways in and around municipalities. (a) Each municipality, not located within a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) as recognized in G.S. 136-200.1, with the cooperation of the Department of Transportation, shall develop a comprehensive transportation plan that will serve present and anticipated travel demand […]
136-66.3. Local government participation in improvements to the State transportation system. (a) Municipal Participation Authorized. – A municipality may, but is not required to, participate in the right-of-way and construction cost of a State transportation improvement approved by the Board of Transportation under G.S. 143B-350(f)(4) that is located in the municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction. […]
136-66.4. Rules and regulations; authority of municipalities. The Department of Transportation shall have authority to adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the responsibilities of the Department of Transportation under this Article, and municipalities shall have and may exercise such authority as is necessary to carry out their responsibilities under this […]
136-66.5. Improvements in urban areas to reduce traffic congestion. (a) The Department of Transportation is authorized to enter into contracts with municipalities for improvement projects which are a part of an overall plan authorized under the provisions of section 135 of Title 23 of the United States Code, the purpose of which is to facilitate […]
136-66.6. Arrangements in a consolidated city-county. The provisions of this Article applying to municipalities apply to each consolidated city-county with respect to each urban service district defined by its governing board that includes the total area of a previously existing municipality in the same manner as if the urban service district were a municipality. The […]
136-66.7. Authority to include a Municipal Street System street in right-of-way of State Highway System. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of Article 3A of Chapter 136, the provisions of Article 15 of Chapter 160A, or of any other statute, the Department of Transportation may include all or part of a Municipal Street System street as […]
136-66.8. Agreements with units of local government to expedite projects. (a) Agreements Authorized. – The Department of Transportation may enter into agreements with units of local government for either of the following purposes: (1) Expediting transportation projects currently programmed in the Transportation Improvement Program. (2) Funding preliminary engineering for projects not currently programmed in the […]
