GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 526
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/13/95

Short Title:  Greensboro Bid Limits Increased.	(Local)

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March 22, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE INFORMAL BID LIMITS RELATING TO THE LETTING OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS BY THE CITY OF GREENSBORO.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 153 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  The first sentence of G.S. 143-129 is amended to read:
'No construction or repair work requiring the estimated expenditure of public money in an amount equal to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for street construction or repair and appurtenances connected therewith, or in an amount equal to or more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for other construction or repair work, or purchase of apparatus, supplies, materials, or equipment requiring an estimated expenditure of public money in an amount equal to or more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), except in cases of group purchases made by hospitals through a competitive bidding purchasing program or in cases of special emergency involving the health and safety of the people or their property, shall be performed, nor shall any contract be awarded therefor, by any board or governing body of the State, or of any institution of State government, or of any county, city, town or other subdivision of the State, unless the provisions of this section are complied with.'"
Sec. 2.  Section 3 of Chapter 53 of the 1987 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.  G.S. 143-131 is amended by deleting 'two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500)', and substituting 'twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)'."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.