GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 71*

Short Title:  Emergency Use of Prison Laundries.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Cunningham; Bowman, Fussell, Gardner, Gist, Hensley, Russell, Smith, and Stamey.
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Referred to:  Business and Labor.
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February 8, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PERMIT THE USE OF THE PRISON ENTERPRISE LAUNDRY OPERATION IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 66-58(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to:
(1)	Counties and municipalities.
(2)	The Department of Human Resources, the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, or the Department of Agriculture for the sale of serums, vaccines, and other like products.
(3)	The Department of Administration, except that said agency shall not exceed the authority granted in the act creating the agency.
(4)	The State hospitals for the insane.
(5)	The Department of Human Resources.
(6)	The North Carolina School for the Blind at Raleigh.
(7)	The North Carolina Schools for the Deaf.
(8)	The Greater University of North Carolina with regard to its utilities and other services now operated by it nor to the sale of articles produced incident to the operation of instructional departments, articles incident to educational research, articles of merchandise incident to classroom work, meals, books, or to articles of merchandise not exceeding twenty-five cents (25¢) in value when sold to members of the educational staff or staff auxiliary to education or to duly enrolled students or occasionally to immediate members of the families of members of the educational staff or of duly enrolled students nor to the sale of meals or merchandise to persons attending meetings or conventions as invited guests nor to the operation by the University of North Carolina of an inn or hotel and dining and other facilities usually connected with a hotel or inn, nor to the hospital and Medical School of the University of North Carolina, nor to the Coliseum of North Carolina State College, and the other schools and colleges for higher education maintained or supported by the State, nor to the comprehensive student health services or the comprehensive student infirmaries maintained by the constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina.
(9)	The Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, except that said Department shall not construct, maintain, operate or lease a hotel or tourist inn in any park over which it has jurisdiction. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission may sell wildlife memorabilia as a service to members of the public interested in wildlife conservation.
(10)	Child-caring institutions or orphanages receiving State aid.
(11)	Highlands School in Macon County.
(12)	The North Carolina State Fair.
(13)	Rural electric memberships corporations.
(13a) 	State Farm Operations Commission.
(13b) 	The Department of Agriculture with regard to its lessees at farmers' markets operated by the Department.
(13c)	The Western North Carolina Agricultural Center.
(14)	Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the engagement in any of the activities described in subsection (a) hereof by a firm, corporation or person who or which is a lessee of space only of the State of North Carolina or any of its departments or agencies; provided such leases shall be awarded by the Department of Administration to the highest bidder, as provided by law in the case of State contracts and which lease shall be for a term of not less than one year and not more than five years.
(15)	The State Department of Correction is authorized to purchase and install automobile license tag plant equipment for the purpose of manufacturing license tags for the State and local governments and for such other purposes as the Department may direct.
		The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, or such other authority as may exercise the authority to purchase automobile license tags is hereby directed to purchase from, and to contract with, the State Department of Correction for the State automobile license tag requirements from year to year.
		The price to be paid to the State Department of Correction for such tags shall be fixed and agreed upon by the Governor, the State Department of Correction, and the Motor Vehicle Commissioner, or such authority as may be authorized to purchase such supplies.
(16)	Laundry services performed by the Department of Correction may be provided only for agencies and instrumentalities of the State which are supported by State funds and for county or municipally controlled and supported hospitals presently being served by the Department of Correction, or for which services have been contracted or applied for in writing, as of May 22, 1973, or for which services are provided for six months or less and no more than a total of six months in any 24-month period, due to the malfunction of laundry equipment which is being repaired or replaced or due to renovations to the hospital laundry facility.  In addition to the prior sentence, laundry services performed by the Department of Correction may be provided for the Governor Morehead School and the North Carolina School for the Deaf, and for hospitals or state or local governments in response to an emergency, whether or not such emergency occurs within or without the state and whether or not the services are performed for an entity located within or without the State.  The term 'emergency' as used herein shall mean a situation declared by the governor of the state as an emergency in response to an unusual disruption of normal services and facilities and shall last only so long as the governor shall declare.
		Such services shall be limited to wet-washing, drying and ironing of flatwear or flat goods such as towels, sheets and bedding, linens and those uniforms prescribed for wear by such institutions and further limited to only flat goods or apparel owned, distributed or controlled entirely by such institutions and shall not include processing by any dry-cleaning methods; provided, however, those garments and items presently being serviced by wet-washing, drying and ironing may in the future, at the election of the Department of Correction, be processed by a dry-cleaning method.
(17)	The North Carolina Air Cargo Airport Authority or a lessee of the Authority.
(18)	The activities and products of private enterprise carried on or manufactured within a State prison facility pursuant to G.S. 148-70."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.