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AN ACT

RELATING TO THE STATE FAIR COMMISSION; EXCLUDING THE STATE

FAIR COMMISSION FROM PROCUREMENT THROUGH THE STATE PURCHASING

AGENT FOR PURCHASES UNDER TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000).

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 13-1-99 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1984,

Chapter 65, Section 72, as amended) is amended to read:

"13-1-99. EXCLUDED FROM CENTRAL PURCHASING THROUGH THE

STATE PURCHASING AGENT.--Excluded from the requirement of

procurement through the state purchasing agent but not from

the requirements of the Procurement Code are the following:

A. procurement of professional services;

B. small purchases having a value not exceeding

one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

C. emergency procurement;

D. procurement of highway construction or

reconstruction by the department of transportation;

E. procurement by the judicial branch of state

government;

F. procurement by the legislative branch of state

government;

G. procurement by the boards of regents of state

educational institutions named in Article 12, Section 11 of

the constitution of New Mexico;

H. procurement by the state fair commission of

tangible personal property, services and construction under

twenty thousand dollars ($20,000);

I. purchases from the instructional material fund;

J. procurement by all local public bodies;

K. procurement by regional education cooperatives;

L. procurement by charter schools;

M. procurement by each state health care

institution that provides direct patient care and that is, or

a part of which is, medicaid certified and participating in

the New Mexico medicaid program; and

N. procurement by the public school facilities

authority."

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