GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 916
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 9.5(a) of the Charter of the City of High Point, being Chapter 501, Session Laws of 1979, reads as rewritten:
"(a) Contracts on informal
bids. All contracts for construction or repair work or for the purchase of
apparatus, supplies, materials or equipment involving expenditure of public
funds in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more, but not in
excess of $10,000 fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or contracts for
the purchase of apparatus, supplies, materials or equipment involving
expenditure of public funds in the amount of $5,000 or more, but not in excess
of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), made by any officer, department, board
or commission of the city, when practical, shall be awarded to the lowest
responsible bidder taking into consideration quality, performance and the time
specified in the proposal for the performance of the contract, after informal
bids have been secured; provided, contracts may be awarded upon receipt of one
bid in all cases where there is only one (1) source of supply and in all cases
where only one (1) bid has been received after efforts have been made in
writing to secure more than one (1) bid, and it shall be the duty of such
officer, department, board or commission to keep record of all bids submitted,
and such records shall be subject to public inspection at any time."
Sec. 2. Section 9.5(b) of the Charter of the City of High Point, being Chapter 501, Session Laws of 1979, reads as rewritten:
"(b) Procedure for letting
Public Contracts. No construction or repair work or purchases of
apparatus, supplies, materials or equipment requiring estimated expenditure
of public money in an amount more than $10,000, fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000) or purchases of apparatus, supplies, materials or equipment
requiring estimated expenditure of public money in an amount of more than ten
thousand dollars ($10,000), except in cases of special emergencies as
determined by the council involving health and safety of the people or their
property, shall be performed and no contract shall be awarded therefor unless
the provisions of this section are complied with."
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1988.