Cooperative Programs Authorized. The Northern Marianas Technical Institute is authorized to enter into contracts with public or private organizations, firms, companies or individuals to provide technical manpower training and testing programs. Such contracts shall be utilized to provide for specialized training and testing in particular fields not otherwise available within the Institute which are designed to train or test local persons in needed skills and at the same time to train employees to carry on such courses. Any contract under this section may require the training of employees to continue teaching such a course on a self-sustaining basis. Northern Marianas Technical Institute will not supplant, replace, or duplicate the cooperative programs at Northern Marianas College. Source: PL 20-92 § 2 (Feb. 18, 2019), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission changed the capitalization of the word “section” for conformity pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(f).