GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2003-177
HOUSE BILL 344
AN ACT requiring the motor fleet management division to use Best MANAGEMENT practices in operating the central motor pool, to use a formula to determine the most cost-effective replacement of VEHICLES, AND to report semiannually to the General ASSEMBLY on the cost savings resulting FROM use of the formula.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 143-341(8)i.4. reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-341. Powers and duties of Department.
The Department of Administration has the following powers and duties:
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(8) General Services:
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i. To establish and operate a central motor pool and such subsidiary related facilities as the Secretary may deem necessary, and to that end:
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4. To
maintain, store, repair, dispose of, and replace state-owned motor vehicles
under the control of the Department. Department, using best
management practices. The Department shall ensure that state-owned vehicles
are not normally replaced until they have been driven for 110,000
miles or more.when most cost effective using a replacement formula
developed by the Department and reviewed periodically for appropriateness of
use. The Department shall report semiannually to the cochairs of the Joint
Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government, on or before October 15 and
March 15, on the effect of any new or revised replacement formula on the cost
of operating the central motor pool, including the amount of any savings from
use of any new or revised replacement formula."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of June, 2003.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Richard T. Morgan
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 10:06 a.m. this 12th day of June, 2003