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Committee staff recommends a "toehold" on trails maintenance; full S.4 debate deferred
Summary
Senate Transportation staff advised inserting limited maintenance language into the T bill to preserve trail upkeep while deferring the broader S.4 (legal trails) changes for additional testimony and legal review.
At a meeting of the Senate Transportation Committee, committee counsel recommended adding limited language on trail maintenance to the committee's T bill while postponing consideration of the broader S.4 (legal trails) provisions until after further testimony and legal research.
Damian Leonard, counsel with the Onslow Legislative Council, told the committee that maintenance is the clearer legal question and urged the committee to “put a toehold into the T bill, around the issue of maintenance,” while the more complex questions about permitted uses on trails be studied later.
Leonard explained the legal distinction the committee is weighing:…
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