NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1226

HOUSE BILL 1011

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143‑129 SO AS TO REQUIRE SEALED COMPETITIVE BIDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143‑129 as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph after the seventh paragraph of said Section to read as follows:

"Bids shall be sealed if the invitation to bid so specifies and, in any event, the opening of a bid or the disclosure or exhibition of the contents of any bid by anyone without the permission of the bidder prior to the time set for opening in the invitation to bid shall constitute a general misdemeanor."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1961.