NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 644

HOUSE BILL 1195

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143-132 TO PERMIT AWARD OF PUBLIC CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR UPON RECEIPT OF FEWER THAN THREE BIDS WHEN DOING SO BEST SERVES THE PUBLIC INTEREST.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-132, as it appears in 1974 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"Provided, however, that any contract for construction or repairs requiring the estimated expenditure of public money in an amount in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) but not in excess of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) may be awarded by any board or governing body of the State or any subdivision thereof upon receipt of at least two such competitive bids without readvertising if such board or governing body finds as a fact that it would not be in the public interest to readvertise as above required and makes appropriate written entry in the minutes or records of such board or governing body."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1977.