GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE BILL 705

Short Title:     School Food Service Equipment/Lease-Purchase.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Crawford, Wray (Primary Sponsors);  Bell, Church, and Insko.
Referred to:	Finance.

March 15, 2007

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to permit local boards of education to enter into lease purchase or installment purchase contracts for food service equipment.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑528(a) reads as rewritten:

"(a)      Local boards of education may purchase or finance the purchase of automobiles; school buses; mobile classroom units; food service equipment, photocopiers; and computers, computer hardware, computer software, and related support services by lease purchase contracts and installment purchase contracts as provided in this section. Computers, computer hardware, computer software, and related support services purchased under this section shall meet the technical standards specified in the North Carolina Instructional Technology Plan as developed and approved under G.S. 115C‑102.6A and G.S. 115C‑102.6B."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.