FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to exempt certain purchases and leases of communications and computer technologies and equipment from bidding requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 5-18-18 be amended to read as follows:
     5-18-18.   The provisions of § §   5-18-1 to 5-18-17, inclusive, do not regulate or apply to contracts entered into and purchases made by the Department of Transportation or by the Bureau of Administration or to the purchase of electric power, light, water, or gas; or any municipal corporation for the purchase of materials, supplies, or equipment for any utility owned or operated by such municipal corporation, if the purchase does not exceed the limits established pursuant to §   5-18-3; or to contracts of any municipal corporation in time of war to acquire, establish, construct, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate, or regulate an airport or landing field for the use of airplanes or other aircraft, of the United States armed forces or its members, students, and mechanics; or to contracts of any public corporation for the purchase of materials, supplies, or equipment from the United States or its agencies; or to equipment repair contracts; or to the contracts of any school district , municipality, or county for

the purchase or lease of communications technologies, computers, peripheral equipment, and related connectivity; or to the purchase of surplus property from another public corporation; or to the purchase by one local government entity from the lowest responsible bidder of an item competitively bid in the previous twelve months by itself or another local government entity or the state at the bid price or less; or to animals purchased by a municipality for a zoo.

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BILL HISTORY
1/20/98 First read in House and referred to State Affairs.   H.J.   126
1/23/98 Scheduled for Committee hearing on this date.
1/23/98 State Affairs Do Pass Amended, Passed, AYES 9, NAYS 3.   H.J.   195