North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 19A - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 02 - DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS › Subchapter A - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Section .0100 - CHIEF ENGINEER › Section 02A .0102 - DUTIES OF CHIEF ENGINEER

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The duties and responsibilities of the Chief Engineer
					 conferred by law and delegated or prescribed by the Secretary or Board of
					 Transportation include:
(1) recommend
				  ordinances based upon engineering studies of the Traffic Engineering
				  Branch;
(2) enter into agreements
				  and contracts for the board;
(3)
				  carry out Board programs and functions;
(4) powers and duties concerning highway
				  right of way acquisitions which may be subdelegated to the right of way
				  branch;
(5) negotiate and execute
				  contracts with right of way fee appraisers;
(6) negotiate and enter into agreements under
				  the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies
				  Act;
(7) make spot safety
				  improvement funds for primary, secondary, and urban safety projects available
				  as needed and that said authority may be delegated to the Manager of Traffic
				  Engineering by the Chief Engineer;
(8) execute lease or rental agreements on
				  behalf of the State;
(9) inspect
				  the State roadway system annually to determine the need, priorities, and
				  scheduling for major maintenance, retreatment or resurfacing (subject to the
				  Board's approval) in each engineering division;
(10) determine the need for temporary traffic
				  control devices for special events;
(11) review and approve median opening
				  requests;
(12) review and approve
				  civic, non-profit, or charitable organization safety rest stop
				  activities;
(13) handle and execute
				  bicycle trails joint use rights of way;
(14) consider and issue or deny permits for
				  intermittent closing of secondary roads within watershed improvement
				  projects;
(15) issue special
				  overweight and over-dimension permits;
(16) authorize crop cultivation within rights
				  of way;
(17) authorize garbage
				  collection container sites on rights of way;
(18) authorize construction within the right
				  of way;
(19) permit construction of
				  railroad tracks across any portion of the roadway system;
(20) review, investigate and allow or deny
				  contractor settlement claims for construction;
(21) determine existence of emergency
				  situation justifying the waiver of the bidding requirements as described in the
				  general statutes;
(22) implement,
				  subject to discretionary review by the Secretary of Transportation, those rules
				  and ordinances pertaining to highway matters which are delegated to him by the
				  Secretary of Transportation;
(23)
				  submit a priority list and consult with Board of Transportation members in each
				  major maintenance, retreatment or resurfacing project as requested by the Board
				  members;
(24) hold bid withdrawal
				  hearings;
(25) submit applications
				  to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and to execute the assurances and
				  agreements and other documents on behalf of the Department of Transportation
				  necessary for Federal Disaster Assistance, including the Designation of
				  Applicants Agents, Assurances and Agreements, Damage Survey Reports and
				  Requests for Payments. The Chief Engineer is further authorized to subdelegate
				  the authority and duty for Federal Disaster Assistance on behalf of the
				  Department of Transportation to the Chief Engineer's designee.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 20-119;
					 133-5 thru 17; 136-18(5);
					 136-18(11); 136-18.3; 136-19; 136-28.1; 136-29; 136-30; 136-44.1; 136-64.1(d);
					 136-71.9; 136-89.51; 136-93; 143B-10(j); 143B-350(f); 143B-350(g);
Eff. July 1, 1978;
Amended Eff. December 1, 2012; December 1, 1993;
					 November 1, 1991; October 1, 1991; January 1, 1986;
Pursuant to
					 G.S.
					 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. September 6,
					 2016.