GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 709

SENATE BILL 1671

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG TO WAIVE BID BONDS ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-129 as it applies to the County of Mecklenburg is amended to provide that the County Manager or his designee may waive the requirement for a bid bond or deposit for the purchase of apparatus, supplies, material, or equipment where the successful bidder does not have any past experience of nonperformance with the County.  The Board of County Commissioners may consider a bid for the purchase of apparatus, supplies, materials, or equipment and award a contract on such bid notwithstanding the fact that the proposal is not accompanied by a bid deposit with the Board of County Commissioners.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 1994.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives