GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 632 
HOUSE BILL 565 

AN ACT ALLOWING THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM TO ESTABLISH, AGREE TO AND COMPLY WITH MINIMUM MINORITY AND WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the City of Winston-Salem, being Chapter 232 of the Private Laws of 1927 as amended, is further amended by designating the existing language of Section 38 of the Charter as subsection (a) and by adding at the end of Section 38 a new subsection (b) to read: 
"(b)	The Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem may establish, agree to and comply with minimum minority and women's business enterprise participation requirements in projects financed by public funds to ensure equal employment opportunities or to redress past discrimination, by including such minimum requirements in the specifications for contracts to perform all or part of such projects and awarding bids pursuant to G.S. 143- 129 and 143-131, provided that nothing in the specifications or requirements allow the award of contracts or sub-contracts to be made to other than contractors or sub-contractors who submit the lowest responsible bid and meet the bonding requirements of G.S. 44A-26. In addition, any contract between the City and a developer or developers pursuant to Chapter 289, Session Laws of 1981 (Uptown Development Projects) may contain provisions ensuring the use of a designated number or percentage (as determined by the Board of Aldermen) of minority and female subcontractors in the construction of the Uptown Development Project." 
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1985.