NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 406

HOUSE BILL 654

 

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL G.S. 160-280 RELATING TO PUBLIC BUILDING CONTRACTS OF COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES, AND TO AMEND G.S. 143-128 SO AS TO MAKE THE SAME APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES, TO REQUIRE SEPARATE SPECIFICATIONS FOR BUILDING CONTRACTS WHEN THE COST EXCEEDS $20,000.00, AND TO PROVIDE FOR COMBINED BIDS FOR HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING WHEN INSTALLED BY THE SAME CONTRACTOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 160-280 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-128 is hereby amended by inserting between the word "State," in the third line thereof and the word "when" in the fourth line thereof the words "or for any county or municipality,".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 143-128 is amended by deleting the words and figures "fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00)" from the fourth and fifth lines thereof, and substituting in lieu thereof the words and figures "twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00)".

Sec. 4.  G.S. 143-128 is further amended by deleting the period following the word "subdivisions" in the thirteenth line thereof, substituting a comma therefor, and adding the following: "provided, however, that when heating and ventilating, and air conditioning for comfort cooling, is to be constructed using essentially the same conductive facilities or duct work, or the said systems for heating, ventilating and/or air conditioning are to be constructed as parts of the same contract, a combined bid for these two classes of work may be submitted."

Sec. 5.  G.S. 143-128 is further amended by inserting between the word "State" and the word "or" in the fourteenth line thereof the words and punctuation ", or by a county or municipality,".

Sec. 6.  G.S. 143-128 is further amended by inserting between the word "Carolina" in the twenty-second line thereof and the word "and" at the beginning of the twenty-third line thereof the words and punctuation ", or to the county or municipality,".

Sec. 7.  G.S. 143-128 is further amended by inserting between the word "State" in the twenty-eighth line thereof and the word "for" in the twenty-ninth line thereof the words and punctuation ", or with any county or municipality,".

Sec. 8.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 9.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1963.