Bill Text: NC S889 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: RPO Area Definition
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-20 - Ch. SL 2012-44 [S889 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S889-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2012-44
SENATE BILL 889
AN ACT to change the definition on an area that can be REPRESENTED by a rural planning ORganizATION, as recommended by the joint LEGISLATIVE TRANSPORTATION oversight committee.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 136‑211 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136‑211. Department authorized to establish Rural Transportation Planning Organizations.
(a) Authorization. – The Department of Transportation is authorized to form Rural Transportation Planning Organizations.
(b) Area Represented. – Rural
Transportation Planning Organizations shall include representatives from
contiguous areas in three to fifteen counties, with or a total
population of the entire area represented of at least 50,000 persons according
to the latest population estimate of the Office of State Planning.Office
of State Budget and Management. Noncontiguous counties adjacent to the same
Metropolitan Planning Organization may form a Rural Transportation Planning
Organization. Areas already included in a Metropolitan Planning Organization
shall not be included in the area represented by a Rural Transportation
Planning Organization.
(c) Membership. – The Rural Transportation Planning Organization shall consist of local elected officials or their designees and representatives of local transportation systems in the area as agreed to by all parties in a memorandum of understanding.
(d) Formation; Memorandum of Understanding. – The Department shall notify local elected officials and representatives of local transportation systems around the State of the opportunity to form Rural Transportation Planning Organizations. The Department shall work cooperatively with interested local elected officials, their designees, and representatives of local transportation systems to develop a proposed area, membership, functions, and responsibilities of a Rural Transportation Planning Organization. The agreement of all parties shall be included in a memorandum of understanding approved by the membership of a proposed Rural Transportation Planning Organization and the Secretary of the Department of Transportation."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 2012.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 12:03 p.m. this 20th day of June, 2012
