NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1022

SENATE BILL 759

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115-129 TO PROVIDE FOR THE TEMPORARY USE OF MOBILE CLASSROOM UNITS WHERE PERMANENT SCHOOL BUILDINGS DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT CLASSROOMS TO HOUSE THE ANTICIPATED ENROLLMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115-129 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end of said Section, which said paragraph shall read as follows:

"Upon determination by a county or city board of education that the existing permanent school building does not have sufficient classrooms to house the pupil enrollment anticipated for such school, then such city or county board of education is authorized to acquire and utilize as temporary classrooms for the operation of such school, relocatable or mobile classroom units, which units and method of use shall meet the approval of the School Planning Division of the State Board of Education, and which units shall comply with all applicable requirements of the North Carolina State Building Code and of the local building and electrical codes applicable to the area in which such school is located. The acquisition and installation of such units shall be subject in all respects to the provisions of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes. The provisions of Chapter 87, Article 1, of the General Statutes, shall not apply to persons, firms or corporations engaged in the sale or furnishing to county and city boards of education and the delivery and installation upon school sites of classroom trailers as a single building unit or of relocatable or mobile classrooms delivered in less than four units or sections."

Sec. 2.  This Act shall be retroactive in its application and shall apply to all proceedings where offers have been submitted and bids have been obtained and to all contracts for the acquisition of such relocatable, temporary, mobile classrooms whether same have been delivered or not.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  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 25th day of June, 1969.