GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 218
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 thirty thousand dollars ($30,000), 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 'ten thousand
dollars ($10,000)' 'twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)'."
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives