GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 231
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 14-234(d1) reads as rewritten:
"(d1) The first sentence of subsection (a) shall not
apply to (i) any elected official or person appointed to fill an elective
office of a village, town, or city having a population of no more than 7,500
according to the most recent official federal census, (ii) any elected official
or person appointed to fill an elective office of a county within which there
is located no village, town, or city with a population of more than 7,500
according to the most recent official federal census, (iii) any elected
official or person appointed to fill an elective office on a city board of
education in a city having a population of no more than 7,500 according to the
most recent official federal census, (iv) any elected official or person
appointed to fill an elective office as a member of a county board of education
in a county within which there is located no village, town or city with a
population of more than 7,500 according to the most recent official federal
census, and (v) any physician, pharmacist, dentist, optometrist,
veterinarian, or nurse appointed to a county social services board, local
health board, or area mental health board serving one or more counties within
which there is located no village, town, or city with a population of more than
7,500 according to the most recent official federal census, and (vi) any
member of the board of directors of a public hospital if:
(1) The undertaking or contract or series of
undertakings or contracts between the village, town, city, county, county
social services board, county or city board of education, local health board or
area mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse board board,
or public hospital and one of its officials is approved by specific resolution
of the governing body adopted in an open and public meeting, and recorded in
its minutes and the amount does not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for
medically related services and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for other
goods or services within a 12-month period; and
(2) The official entering into the contract or undertaking with the unit or agency does not in his official capacity participate in any way or vote; and
(3) The total annual amount of undertakings or contracts with each official, shall be specifically noted in the audited annual financial statement of the village, town, city, or county; and
(4) The governing board of any village, town, city,
county, county social services board, county or city board of education, local
health board, or area mental health, mental retardation, and substance
abuse board board, or public hospital which undertakes or
contracts with any of the officials of their governmental unit shall post in a
conspicuous place in its village, town, or city hall, or courthouse, as the
case may be, a list of all such officials with whom such undertakings or
contracts have been made, briefly describing the subject matter of the
undertakings or contracts and showing their total amounts; this list shall
cover the preceding 12 months and shall be brought up-to-date at least
quarterly."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1989.