GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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SENATE BILL 1030
State Government, Local Government, and Personnel Committee Substitute Adopted 4/24/97

Short Title:  Public Contract Disputes.	(Public)

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PROJECT EXPEDITERS ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.   G.S. 143-128(e) reads as rewritten:
"(e)	Project expediter; scheduling; public body to resolve project disputes. – The State, county, municipality, or other public body may, if specified in the bid documents, provide for assignment of responsibility for expediting the work on the project to a single responsible and reliable person, firm or corporation, which may be a prime contractor.  In executing this responsibility, the designated project expediter may recommend to the State, county, municipality, or other public body whether payment to a contractor should be approved.  The project expediter, if required by the contract documents, shall be responsible for the preparation of the project schedule and shall allow all contractors and subcontractors performing any of the branches of work listed in subsection (d) of this section equal input into the preparation of the initial schedule.  Notwithstanding an assignment of responsibility for expediting the work, whenever separate contracts are awarded and separate contractors engaged for a project pursuant to this section, the State, county, or municipality or other public body, or their designee, may issue decisions and directives concerning the work of the separate contractors and any project disputes between them."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1997, and applies to contracts entered into on or after that date.