GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 418

SENATE BILL 399

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE COUNTY OF DURHAM TO ADOPT AND COMPLY WITH MINIMUM MINORITY AND/OR WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REQUIREMENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The County of Durham, by and through its Board of Commissioners, may adopt minimum minority and/or women's business enterprise participation requirements in projects financed by public funds to ensure equal employment opportunities and/or to redress past discrimination, and to comply with these requirements by including them in the specifications for contract to perform all or part of such projects, soliciting proposals for said contracts from bidders pursuant to G.S. 143-129 and G.S. 143-131, if applicable, and awarding the contract to the lowest responsible bidder meeting these and all other specifications.

Sec. 2.  The minimum minority and/or women's business enterprise participation requirements authorized by this act shall be adopted only after appropriate public hearings before the Board of Commissioners, notice of which must be given not less than 10 days prior to the date set for said hearings.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1987.