Bill Text: NC H287 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Red Light Cameras/Hope Mills & Spring Lake

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-04-21 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [H287 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2017-H287-Amended.html

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

H                                                                                                                                                    2

HOUSE BILL 287

Committee Substitute Favorable 4/19/17

 

Short Title:      Red Light Cameras/Hope Mills & Spring Lake.

(Local)

Sponsors:

 

Referred to:

 

March 9, 2017

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to make changes to the law governing red light cameras in the towns of hope mills and spring lake.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑300.1(d) reads as rewritten:

"(d)      This section applies only to the Cities of Albemarle, Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Greenville, High Point, Locust, Lumberton, Newton, Rocky Mount, and Wilmington, to the Towns of Chapel Hill, Cornelius, Hope Mills, Huntersville, Matthews, Nags Head, Pineville, and Spring Lake, and to the municipalities in Union County."

SECTION 2.  Section 3 of S.L. 2007‑341, as amended by Section 1 of S.L. 2016‑64, reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act applies to the Cities of Albemarle, Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greenville, Locust, and Rocky Mount Mount, the Towns of Hope Mills and Spring Lake, and to the municipalities in Union County."

SECTION 3.  G.S. 160A‑300.1(c), as amended by S.L. 2007‑341, is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(4a)    A municipality enacting an ordinance implementing a traffic control photographic system may enter into a contract with a contractor for the lease, lease‑purchase, or purchase of the system. The municipality may enter into only one contract for the lease, lease‑purchase, or purchase of the system, and the duration of the contract may be for no more than 60 months. After the period specified in the contract has expired, the system shall either be the property of the municipality or be removed and returned to the contractor."

SECTION 4.  G.S. 160A‑300.1(c)(2), as amended by S.L. 2007‑341, reads as rewritten:

"(2)      A violation detected by a traffic control photographic system shall be deemed a noncriminal violation for which a civil penalty of seventy‑five dollars ($75.00) one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be assessed, and for which no points authorized by G.S. 20‑16(c) shall be assigned to the owner or driver of the vehicle nor insurance points as authorized by G.S. 58‑36‑65."

SECTION 5.(a)  The Town of Hope Mills and the Cumberland County Board of Education may enter into an interlocal agreement necessary and proper to effectuate the purpose and intent of G.S. 160A‑300.1 and this act. Any agreement entered into pursuant to this section may include provisions on cost‑sharing and reimbursement that the Cumberland County Board of Education and the Town of Hope Mills freely and voluntarily agree to for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of G.S. 160A‑300.1 and this act.

SECTION 5.(b)  The Town of Spring Lake and the Cumberland County Board of Education may enter into an interlocal agreement necessary and proper to effectuate the purpose and intent of G.S. 160A‑300.1 and this act. Any agreement entered into pursuant to this section may include provisions on cost‑sharing and reimbursement that the Cumberland County Board of Education and the Town of Spring Lake freely and voluntarily agree to for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of G.S. 160A‑300.1 and this act.

SECTION 6.  This act applies only to the Towns of Hope Mills and Spring Lake and the Cumberland County Board of Education.

SECTION 7.  Section 4 of this act becomes effective October 1, 2017, and applies to violations committed on or after that date. The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 2017.

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