GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-226
HOUSE BILL 682
AN ACT to adjust the exemption limits for small local governments in the public contracting statutes to account for inflation since last adjusted seven years ago.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-234(d1) reads as rewritten:
"(d1) Subdivision (a)(1) of this section does not apply to (i) any elected official or person appointed to fill an elective office of a village, town, or city having a population of no more than 15,000 according to the most recent official federal census, (ii) any elected official or person appointed to fill an elective office of a county within which there is located no village, town, or city with a population of more than 15,000 according to the most recent official federal census, (iii) any elected official or person appointed to fill an elective office on a city board of education in a city having a population of no more than 15,000 according to the most recent official federal census, (iv) any elected official or person appointed to fill an elective office as a member of a county board of education in a county within which there is located no village, town or city with a population of more than 15,000 according to the most recent official federal census, (v) any physician, pharmacist, dentist, optometrist, veterinarian, or nurse appointed to a county social services board, local health board, or area mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse board serving one or more counties within which there is located no village, town, or city with a population of more than 15,000 according to the most recent official federal census, and (vi) any member of the board of directors of a public hospital if all of the following apply:
(1)
The undertaking or contract or series of undertakings or contracts between the
village, town, city, county, county social services board, county or city board
of education, local health board or area mental health, developmental
disabilities, and substance abuse board, or public hospital and one of its
officials is approved by specific resolution of the governing body adopted in
an open and public meeting, and recorded in its minutes and the amount does not
exceed twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) twenty thousand
dollars ($20,000) for medically related services and twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,000) forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for
other goods or services within a 12-month period.
(2) The official entering into the contract with the unit or agency does not participate in any way or vote.
(3) The total annual amount of contracts with each official, shall be specifically noted in the audited annual financial statement of the village, town, city, or county.
(4) The governing board of any village, town, city, county, county social services board, county or city board of education, local health board, area mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse board, or public hospital which contracts with any of the officials of their governmental unit shall post in a conspicuous place in its village, town, or city hall, or courthouse, as the case may be, a list of all such officials with whom such contracts have been made, briefly describing the subject matter of the undertakings or contracts and showing their total amounts; this list shall cover the preceding 12 months and shall be brought up-to-date at least quarterly."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 2009.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 5:47 p.m. this 30th day of June, 2009