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Get a Document - by Citation - N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136 -102.6 <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />01 - . 7 <br />the minimum standards of the Board of Transportation. <br />(e) No person or firm shall place or erect any utility in, over, or upon the existing or proposed <br />right -of -way of any street in a subdivision to which this section applies, except in accordance <br />with the Division of Highway's policies and procedures for accommodating utilities on highway <br />rights -of -way, until the Division of Highways has given written approval of the location of such <br />utilities. Written approval may be in the form of exchange of correspondence until such times <br />as it is requested to add the street or streets to the State system, at which time an <br />encroachment agreement furnished by the Division of Highways must be executed between the <br />owner of the utility and the Division of Highways. The right of any utility placed or located on a <br />proposed or existing subdivision public street right -of -way shall be subordinate to the street <br />right -of -way, and the utility shall be subject to regulation by the Department of Transportation. <br />Utilities are defined as electric power, telephone, television, telegraph, water, sewage, gas, oil, <br />petroleum products, steam, chemicals, drainage, irrigation, and similar lines. Any utility <br />installed in a subdivision street not in accordance with the Division of Highways accommodation <br />policy, and without prior approval by the Division of Highways, shall be removed or relocated at <br />no expense to the Division of Highways. <br />(f) Prior to entering any agreement or any conveyance with any prospective buyer, the <br />developer and seller shall prepare and sign, and the buyer of the subject real estate shall <br />receive and sign an acknowledgment of receipt of a separate instrument known as the <br />subdivision streets disclosure statement (hereinafter referred to as disclosure statement). Said <br />disclosure statement shall fully and completely disclose the status (whether public or private) of <br />the street upon which the house or lot fronts. If the street is designated by the developer and <br />seller as a public street, the developer and seller shall certify that the right -of -way and design <br />of the street has been approved by the Division of Highways, and that the street has been or <br />will be constructed by the developer and seller in accordance with the standards for subdivision <br />streets adopted by the Board of Transportation for acceptance on the highway system. If the <br />street is designated by the developer and seller as a private street, the developer and seller <br />shall include in the disclosure statement an explanation of the consequences and responsibility <br />as to maintenance of a private street, and shall fully and accurately disclose the party or parties <br />upon whom responsibility for construction and maintenance of such street or streets shall rest, <br />and shall further disclose that the street or streets will not be constructed to minimum <br />standards, sufficient to allow their inclusion on the State highway system for maintenance. The <br />disclosure statement shall contain a duplicate original which shall be given to the buyer. Written <br />acknowledgment of receipt of the disclosure statement by the buyer shall be conclusive proof of <br />the delivery thereof. <br />(g) The provisions of this section shall apply to all subdivisions located outside municipal <br />corporate limits. As to subdivisions inside municipalities, this section shall apply to all proposed <br />streets or changes in existing streets on the State highway system as shown on the <br />comprehensive plan for the future development of the street system made pursuant to G.S. <br />136 -66.2, and in effect at the date of approval of the map or plat. <br />(h) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any subdivision that consists only of lots <br />located on Lakes Hickory, Norman, Mountain Island and Wylie which are lakes formed by the <br />Catawba River which lots are leased upon October 1, 1975. No roads in any such subdivision <br />shall be added to the State maintained road system without first having been brought up to <br />standards established by the Board of Transportation for inclusion of roads in the system, <br />without expense to the State. Prior to entering any agreement or any conveyance with any <br />prospective buyer of a lot in any such subdivision, the seller shall prepare and sign, and the <br />buyer shall receive and sign an acknowledgment of receipt of a statement fully and completely <br />disclosing the status of and the responsibility for construction and maintenance of the road <br />upon which such lot is located. <br />(i) The purpose of this section is to insure that new subdivision streets described herein to be <br />dedicated to the public will comply with the State standards for placing subdivision streets on <br />http: / /www.lexis.com/ research /retrieve ?_m= d628eb09de4b406l 84c7514e0fac4ac 5 &_bro... 12/18/2014 <br />