GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 231
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 14-234(d1) reads as rewritten:
"(d1) The first sentence of subsection
(a) shall not apply to (i) any elected official or person appointed to fill an
elective office of a village, town, or city having a population of no more than
7,500 according to the most recent official federal census, (ii) any elected
official or person appointed to fill an elective office of a county within
which there is located no village, town, or city with a population of more than
7,500 according to the most recent official federal census, (iii) any elected
official or person appointed to fill an elective office on a city board of
education in a city having a population of no more than 7,500 according to the
most recent official federal census, (iv) any elected official or person
appointed to fill an elective office as a member of a county board of education
in a county within which there is located no village, town or city with a
population of more than 7,500 according to the most recent official federal
census, and (v) any physician, pharmacist, dentist, optometrist,
veterinarian, or nurse appointed to a county social services board, local health
board, or area mental health board serving one or more counties within which
there is located no village, town, or city with a population of more than 7,500
according to the most recent official federal census, and (vi) any member of
the board of directors of a public hospital if:
(1) The undertaking or
contract or series of undertakings or contracts between the village, town,
city, county, county social services board, county or city board of education,
local health board or area mental health, mental retardation, and substance
abuse board board, or public hospital and one of its officials is
approved by specific resolution of the governing body adopted in an open and
public meeting, and recorded in its minutes and the amount does not exceed ten
thousand dollars ($10,000) for medically related services and fifteen thousand
dollars ($15,000) for other goods or services within a 12-month period; and
(2) The official entering into the contract or undertaking with the unit or agency does not in his official capacity participate in any way or vote; and
(3) The total annual amount of undertakings or contracts with each official, shall be specifically noted in the audited annual financial statement of the village, town, city, or county; and
(4) The governing board of
any village, town, city, county, county social services board, county or city
board of education, local health board, or area mental health,
mental retardation, and substance abuse board board, or public
hospital which undertakes or contracts with any of the officials of their
governmental unit shall post in a conspicuous place in its village, town, or
city hall, or courthouse, as the case may be, a list of all such officials with
whom such undertakings or contracts have been made, briefly describing the
subject matter of the undertakings or contracts and showing their total
amounts; this list shall cover the preceding 12 months and shall be brought
up-to-date at least quarterly."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1989.