SB 248 Text

ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 248
(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Ball,
Kessler, Plymale, White, Boley,
Buckalew, Minear and Scott)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported January 29, 1998.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article three, chapter five-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the purchasing division within the department of administration.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article three, chapter five-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. PURCHASING DIVISION.

§5A-3-1. Division created; purpose; director; applicability of article; continuation.

There is hereby created the purchasing division of the department of administration for the purpose of establishing centralized offices to provide purchasing, travel and leasing services to the various state agencies.
No person shall be appointed director of the purchasing division unless that person is, at the time of appointment, a graduate of an accredited college or university and shall have spent a minimum of ten of the fifteen years immediately preceding his appointment employed in an executive capacity in purchasing for any unit of government or for any business, commercial or industrial enterprise.
The provisions of this article shall apply to all of the spending units of state government, except as is otherwise provided by this article or by law: Provided, That the provisions of this article shall not apply to the legislative branch unless otherwise provided or the Legislature or either house thereof requests the director to render specific services under the provisions of this chapter, nor to purchases of stock made by the alcohol beverage control commissioner, nor to purchases of textbooks for the state board of education.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, the purchasing division within the department of administration shall continue to exist until the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ~~ninety-eight~~ ninety-nine.

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