GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1041

Short Title:  Model Plans for Public Schools.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Owens; Adams, Alexander, Allred, Arnold, Baker, Barnes, Black, Bowen, Bowie, Brawley, J. Brown, W. Brown, Buchanan, Cansler, Carpenter, Church, Clary, Cocklereece, Crawford, Culp, Culpepper, Cunningham, Daughtry, Davis, Dickson, Earle, Easterling, Eddins, Edwards, Fox, Gardner, Grady, Hiatt, Hightower, Hill, H. Hunter, Ives, Justus, Kiser, Lemmond, Locke, McAllister, McComas, McCombs, McLaughlin, Nichols, Nye, Oldham, Pate, Pulley, Rayfield, Redwine, Reynolds, Sexton, Sharpe, Sherrill, Sutton, Tolson, Wainwright, Warner, Watson, Weatherly, Wilkins, C. Wilson, and Wright.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 8, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO DEVELOP OR PURCHASE MODEL PLANS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  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.
e.	To develop or purchase, after consultation with the Department of Public Instruction, model plans and specifications for the construction of public schools.  The Department of Administration shall make a model plan available to a local school administrative unit at a fee of no more than one percent (1%) of the construction cost of the school.  Proceeds of the fees shall be used to develop or purchase additional model plans.
	   If a local school administrative unit uses a plan purchased from a designer by the Department of Administration, the designer from whom the plan was purchased is not required to use his or her seal on the plan upon its use."
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Administration, Office of State Construction, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to develop or purchase appropriate plans and specifications for public schools, pursuant to G.S. 143-341(3), as rewritten by Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.