NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 121

SENATE BILL 226

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF WINSTON-SALEM TO PERMIT THE SALE OF BY-PRODUCTS OF CITY OPERATIONS WITHOUT PUBLIC ADVERTISING AND BIDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 110 of Chapter 232 of the Private Laws of 1927, as amended, is hereby amended by adding to the first of the two new paragraphs which were added to this section by Chapter 63 of the 1969 Session Laws of North Carolina.  This new amendment will immediately follow the sentence which ends with the words "to the public, without advertisement or bidding." and reads as follows:

"Furthermore, the City, pursuant to resolution or ordinance duly adopted by the Board of Aldermen, may enter into franchise agreements or other contracts for the wholesale or retail marketing, distribution, purchase or sale of by-products of City operations, such as, but not limited to, soil conditioners or fertilizers produced from sludge at the City's wastewater treatment plant, upon such terms and conditions as the Board finds to be in the best interest of the City. Such agreement and contracts may, in the discretion of the Board of Aldermen, be negotiated, without public advertisement or bidding."

Sec. 2.  The authority contained herein shall be in addition to any authority which the Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem may have under any other law, public or private.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of March, 1971.