NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 182

SENATE BILL 37

 

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE THRESHOLD AMOUNT OF PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION PROJECT COST REQUIRING COMPETITIVE BIDDING FROM TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND TO REPEAL THE PROVISION ALLOWING CONTRACTS TO BE AWARDED UPON RECEIPT OF ONLY TWO BIDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-129, as the same appears in 1978 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the words and figures "ten thousand dollars ($10,000)" appearing in line 3 and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "thirty thousand dollars ($30,000)".

Sec. 2.  The last paragraph of G.S. 143-132 is repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of March, 1979.