GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 846

HOUSE BILL 2085

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT PURCHASING PROCEDURES AND CONTRACTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE TOWN OF TOPSAIL BEACH SHALL BE GOVERNED BY GENERAL LAW.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 18 of the Charter of the Town of Topsail Beach, being Chapter 67, Session Laws of 1963, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 18. Purchase Procedure. Before making any Any purchase for supplies, materials or equipment, opportunity shall be given for competition under such rules and regulations, and with such exceptions, as the board of commissioners may prescribe by ordinance.  All expenditures for supplies, materials, equipment, involving more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) shall be made on a written contract, and such contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after such public notice and competition shall be made as is required by law in North Carolina."

Sec. 2.  Section 19 of the Charter of the Town of Topsail Beach, being Chapter 67, Session Laws of 1963, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 19. Contracts for Town Improvements.  Any contract for town improvement costing more than thirty-five hundred dollars ($3500.00) shall be executed by written contract.  All such contracts for more than thirty-five hundred dollars ($3500.00) shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after such public notice and competition as may be prescribed by law in North Carolina, provided the board of commissioners shall have the power to reject all bids and advertise again.  Alterations in any contract may be made when authorized by the board of commissioners."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of July, 1990.