§ 143-64.2. Authority and duties of the State agency for federal surplus property. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 143‑64.2. Authority and duties of the State agency for federal surplus property.

(a)        The State agency for federal surplus property is herebyauthorized and empowered

(1)        To acquire from the United States of America such property,including equipment, materials, books, or other supplies under the control ofany department or agency of the United States of America as may be usable andnecessary for educational purposes, public health purposes, or civil defensepurposes, including research;

(2)        To warehouse such property; and

(3)        To distribute such property to tax‑supported ornonprofit and tax‑exempt (under section 501(c)(3) of the United StatesInternal Revenue Code of 1954) medical institutions, hospitals, clinics, healthcenters, school systems, schools, colleges, universities, schools for thementally retarded, schools for the physically handicapped, radio and televisionstations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as educational radioor educational television stations, public libraries, civil defenseorganizations, and such other eligible donees within the State as are permittedto receive surplus property of the United States of America under the FederalProperty and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.

(b)        The State agency for federal surplus property may adoptrules necessary to carry out Part 2 of this Article.

(c)        The State agency for federal surplus property may appointadvisory boards or committees as needed to ensure that Part 2 of this Articleand the rules adopted under Part 2 of this Article are consistent with federallaw concerning surplus property.

(d)        The State agency for surplus property is authorized andempowered to take such action, make such expenditures and enter into suchcontracts, agreements and undertakings for and in the name of the State,require such reports and make such investigations as may be required by law orregulation of the United States of America in connection with the receipt,warehousing, and distribution of property received by the State agency forfederal surplus property from the United States of America.

(e)        The State agency for federal surplus property is authorizedand empowered to act as clearinghouse of information for the public and privatenonprofit institutions and agencies referred to in subsection (a) of thissection, to locate property available for acquisition from the United States ofAmerica, to ascertain the terms and conditions under which such property may beobtained, to receive requests from the above‑mentioned institutions andagencies and to transmit to them all available information in reference to suchproperty, and to aid and assist such institutions and agencies in every waypossible in the consummation or acquisition or transactions hereunder.

(f)         The State agency for federal surplus property, in theadministration of Part 2 of this Article, shall cooperate to the fullest extentconsistent with the provisions of Part 2 of this Article, with the departmentsor agencies of the United States of America and shall make such reports in suchform and containing such information as the United States of America or any ofits departments or agencies may from time to time require, and it shall complywith the laws of the United States of America and the rules and regulations ofany of the departments or agencies of the United States of America governingthe allocation, transfer, use, or accounting for, property donable or donatedto the State. (1953, c. 1262, s.2; 1965, c. 1105, ss. 1, 2; 1987, c. 827, s. 218; 1991, c. 358, s. 3.)