GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION

CHAPTER 875
HOUSE BILL 1066

AN ACT TO FACILITATE CONSTRUCTION OF RANGER'S RESIDENCES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  (a) If the State owns an appropriate design for a ranger's residence or if the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Parks and Recreation, intends to use a modular unit for a ranger's residence, the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Parks and Recreation may contract for and supervise all aspects of architecture, engineering, and construction of that ranger's residence, including examination and approval of all changes in plans and specifications made after the contract for work has been awarded, without being subject to the requirements of the following:
(1)	G.S. 143-128 and 143-132, and rules implementing those statutes;
(2)	G.S. 143-31.1 and 143-341(3) and rules implementing that statute; provided, however, the Department of Administration shall, if the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Parks and Recreation so requests, assist the Division in the prefinal and final inspections of the ranger's residence;
(3)	State Statutes, rules, and executive orders referred to in Chapter 2, Section 203.1 b. 16 a), b), d), and f) of the North Carolina Construction Manual (6th Edition) prepared by the Division of State Construction, North Carolina Department of Administration.
Funds appropriated for a ranger's residence for which the State owns an appropriate design or for which the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, intends to use a modular unit shall be allotted by the Director of the Budget within 60 days of the effective date of the appropriation.
The provisions of G.S. 143-135.3 shall apply to contracts entered into pursuant to this section.
If State employees are not available to adapt a State-owned design for a ranger's residence for a particular use or to fit a modular unit for a particular use for a ranger's residence, the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Parks and Recreation may use funds appropriated to design ranger's residences to hire a consultant to adapt the State-owned design or to fit the modular unit to the use.
(b)	The Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Parks and Recreation, shall report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations prior to entering into any contracts for or performing any work on a project subject to the provisions of this act.  The report shall include a description of any contracts the Division intends to enter into for the project, a description of any work the Division intends to perform on the project, the projected cost of the project and the schedule for completion of the project.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1987, and shall remain in effect until June 30, 1989.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of August, 1987.