GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

SESSION LAW 2007-1

HOUSE BILL 33

AN ACT increasing the force account limit for catawba county as to the construction of certain landfills in that county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 143-135 reads as rewritten:

"§ 143-135.  Limitation of application of Article.

Except for the provisions of G.S. 143-129 requiring bids for the purchase of apparatus, supplies, materials or equipment, this Article shall not apply to construction or repair work undertaken by the State or by subdivisions of the State of North Carolina (i) when the work is performed by duly elected officers or agents using force account qualified labor on the permanent payroll of the agency concerned and (ii) when either the total cost of the project, including without limitation all direct and indirect costs of labor, services, materials, supplies and equipment, does not exceed one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) or the total cost of labor on the project does not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000). This force account work shall be subject to the approval of the Director of the Budget in the case of State agencies, of the responsible commission, council, or board in the case of subdivisions of the State. Complete and accurate records of the entire cost of such work, including without limitation, all direct and indirect costs of labor, services, materials, supplies and equipment performed and furnished in the prosecution and completion thereof, shall be maintained by such agency, commission, council or board for the inspection by the general public. Construction or repair work undertaken pursuant to this section shall not be divided for the purposes of evading the provisions of this Article."

SECTION 2.  This act applies only to the construction of the Catawba County Blackburn Landfill Construction and Demolition Landfill Unit 2.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective June 1, 2007, and expires December 1, 2008.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12^th day of March, 2007.

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives