Currituck calls special meeting to seek ferry-toll waiver for local vehicles
Currituck commissioners have scheduled a special meeting on Knotts Island to consider asking the state to waive ferry tolls and fees for locally registered vehicles. The meeting comes 30 minutes before NCDOT’s public tolling session begins.
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KNOTTS ISLAND, N.C. — Currituck County commissioners will consider asking the state to waive ferry tolls for locally registered vehicles during a Sept. 3 special meeting on Knotts Island.
The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. at Knotts Island Elementary School, 30 minutes before NCDOT opens its public ferry-toll listening session at the same location.
The agenda contains one business item:
“Consideration of Joint Resolution Requesting a Waiver of all Tolls and Fees on NC Ferry Routes for Locally Registered Vehicles.”
Currituck has already opposed tolling the Currituck–Knotts Island ferry. The new proposal seeks a narrower remedy: exempt local vehicles.
Friday's notice and agenda do not define “locally registered vehicles”, identify the governments expected to join the resolution or include a draft of the proposal.
The county's public notice says commissioners attending the NCDOT session may convene the special meeting if a quorum is present.
Any waiver would require state action. Currituck cannot create an exemption for a state ferry system on its own.
Whether the state can grant the requested exemption under current law remains unresolved.
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