NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 274

HOUSE BILL 498

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 382 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1967 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE TO JOIN WITH FORSYTH COUNTY AND THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM IN JOINT PURCHASING ARRANGEMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 382 of the 1967 Session Laws of North Carolina is hereby rewritten as follows:

"Section 1. That G.S. 153-246 be amended by adding a paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

In addition to the authority granted herein for counties, and for cities and counties, to enter into joint administrative functions and activities through consolidated agencies, Forsyth County, the City of Winston-Salem and the Town of Kernersville, or any two of these units of local government, are hereby expressly authorized to enter into agreements for the joint purchasing of goods, supplies, materials and services, with or without consolidating their respective purchasing departments. The Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County, the Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem and the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Kernersville, or any two of these Boards desiring to enter into joint purchasing arrangements, are authorized to adopt resolutions setting out the manner in which this authority is to be exercised and the procedures to be followed in carrying out such joint purchasing arrangements. Said resolutions may provide that the joint purchasing arrangements and practice will continue until revoked by the Board of any party to such arrangement."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of April, 1969.