GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 2000-61
HOUSE BILL 1648

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO PURCHASE PUBLIC TRANSIT EQUIPMENT USING THE COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL METHOD OF PROCUREMENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the City of Charlotte, being Session Law 2000-26, is amended by adding the following new section to Subchapter E of Chapter IX:
"Section 8.87.  Transit Procurements.  In addition to other authorized methods of procurement, the City of Charlotte may contract for the purchase, lease, or other acquisition of any apparatus, supplies, materials, or equipment for public transit purposes using the competitive proposal method provided in G.S. 143-129(h)."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2000.

s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives