North Carolina § 136-18 - 04. Product Evaluation Program.
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§ 136-18. 04. Product Evaluation Program.
The Product Evaluation Program, or any successor program operated by the Department of Transportation to review and approve or disapprove new and innovative technologies and products for use by the Department, shall complete its evaluation of a technology or product within one year from the date that the technology or product was submitted for evaluation. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the Product Evaluation Program or any successor program to review all technologies and products submitted to the Product Evaluation Program or any successor program. History (2015-241, s. 29.11(c).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2015-241, s. 29.11(d), made this section effective January 1, 2016, and applicable to technologies and products submitted for review on or after that date. Session Laws 2015-241, s. 29.11(a), (b), provides: "(a) Plan. - The Board of Transportation shall develop a plan to bring greater visibility and public awareness to the Product Evaluation Program, a unit of the Department of Transportation that reviews new and innovative technologies and products. As part of its plan, the Board shall add to its monthly public meeting an agenda item that highlights two new technologies, one technology that is under review by the Product Evaluation Program and one technology that was recently approved by the Product Evaluation Program. "(b) Report and Implementation. - The plan required under subsection (a) of this section shall be submitted to the chairs of the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee no later than December 1, 2015. The Board shall implement the plan required under subsection (a) of this section by February 15, 2016." Session Laws 2015-241, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as 'The Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2015.'" Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.4, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.6, is a severability clause.
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