GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 408
SENATE BILL 918

AN ACT TO DECLARE PRIVATE NONPROFIT CHILD PLACING AGENCIES AND CHILD-CARE FACILITIES ELIGIBLE TO PURCHASE UNDER STATE CONTRACT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-49(6) reads as rewritten:
"(6)	To make available to nonprofit corporations operating charitable hospitals, to local nonprofit community sheltered workshops or centers that meet standards established by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Human Resources, to private nonprofit agencies licensed or approved by the Department of Human Resources as child placing agencies or residential child-care facilities, and to counties, cities, towns, governmental entities and other subdivisions of the State and public agencies thereof in the expenditure of public funds, the services of the Department of Administration in the purchase of materials, supplies and equipment under such rules, regulations and procedures as the Secretary of Administration may adopt. In adopting rules and regulations any or all provisions of this Article may be made applicable to such purchases and contracts made through the Department of Administration, and in addition the rules and regulations shall contain a requirement that payment for all such purchases be made in accordance with the terms of the contract. Prior to adopting rules and regulations under this subdivision, the Secretary of Administration may consult with the Advisory Budget Commission."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of June, 1989.