GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 58
HOUSE BILL 289

AN ACT TO EXTEND TO MOST COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUILDINGS THE REVIEW, SUPERVISION, AND INSPECTION OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-336 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-336.  Definitions.
As used in this Article:
'Agency' includes every agency, institution, board, commission, bureau, council, department, division, officer, and employee of the State, but does not include counties, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, county and city boards of education, and other local public bodies.
'Community college buildings' means all buildings, utilities, and other property developments located at a community college, which is defined in G.S. 115D-2(2).
'Department' means the Department of Administration, unless the context otherwise requires.
'Public buildings' means all buildings owned or maintained by the State in the City of Raleigh, but does not mean any building which a State agency other than the Department of Administration is required by law to care for and maintain.
'Public buildings and grounds' means all buildings and grounds owned or maintained by the State in the City of Raleigh, but does not mean any building or grounds which a State agency other than the Department of Administration is required by law to care for and maintain.
'Public grounds' means all grounds owned or maintained by the State in the City of Raleigh, but does not mean any grounds which a State agency other than the Department of Administration is required by law to care for and maintain.
'Secretary' means the Secretary of Administration, unless the context otherwise requires.
'State buildings' mean all State buildings, utilities, and other property developments except the State Legislative Building, railroads, highway structures, and bridge structures.
But under no circumstances shall this Article or any part thereof apply to the judicial or to the legislative branches of the State." 
Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-341(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3)	Architecture and Engineering:
a.	To examine and approve all plans and specifications for the construction or renovation of:
1.	All State buildings; and
2.	All community college buildings requiring the estimated expenditure for construction or repair work for which public bidding is required under G.S. 143-129
	prior to the awarding of a contract for such work; and to examine and approve all changes in those plans and specifications made after the contract for such work has been awarded.
b.	To prepare preliminary studies and cost estimates and otherwise to assist all agencies in the preparation of requests for appropriations for the construction or renovation of all State buildings.
c.	To supervise the letting of all contracts for the design, construction or renovation of all State buildings and all community college buildings whose plans and specifications must be examined and approved under a.2. of this subdivision.
d.	To supervise and inspect all work done and materials used in the construction or renovation of all State buildings and all community college buildings whose plans and specifications must be examined and approved under a.2. of this subdivision; and no such work may be accepted by the State or by any State agency until it has been approved by the Department."
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of April, 1989.