Enacts new GS 13618(46). Authorizes the Department of Transportation (DOT) to enter into agreements with municipalities,counties, and other governmental entities to install automatic license plate reader systems, subject to conditions that preserve rightofway use by other public utilities. Authorizes DOT to approve requests by municipalities, counties, and other governmentalentities to use land or rightsofway owned by the DOT that are encumbered by utility easements for the installation and use of anautomatic license plate reader, so long as specified criteria are met including that the use is temporary, and the license plate readersystem is aboveground and does not contain combustible fuel. Directs the removal of the system at the request of any affectedpublic utility, and grants affected public utilities the right to move the system when they need immediate access to their facilities.The public utility is only liable for damages to the system resulting from gross negligence or willful misconduct.
