Title 11, Public Finance

Any public procurement unit may enter into an agreement independent of the requirements of Articles 5 and 15 of this chapter with any other public procurement unit for the cooperative use of supplies, services, or information technology under the terms agreed upon between the par…

Any public procurement unit may enter into agreements for the common use or lease of warehousing facilities, capital equipment, and other facilities with another public procurement unit or an external procurement activity under the terms agreed upon between the parties.

(1) Supply of Personnel. Any public procurement unit is authorized, in its discretion, upon written request from another public procurement unit or external procurement activity, to provide personnel services to the requesting public procurement unit or external procurement activ…

All payments from any public procurement unit or external procurement activity received by the Division of Procurement Services in connection with sponsoring or administering a cooperative purchase, must be deposited in the State Treasury in a special account and expended only fo…

Where the public procurement unit administering a cooperative purchase complies with the requirements of this code, any public procurement unit participating in such a purchase shall be deemed to have complied with this code. Public procurement units shall not enter into a cooper…

To the extent possible, the chief procurement officers may collect information concerning the type, cost, quality, and quantity of commonly used supplies, services, or construction being procured or used by local public procurement units, which shall be required to respond approp…

(1) Any procurement by a governmental body from any other public procurement unit must be approved in advance of contracting by the applicable chief procurement officer unless either the supply, service, or information technology is expressly authorized by the enabling legislatio…

The board may promulgate regulations establishing detailed definitions of the following terms using, in addition to the criteria set forth in this section, such other criteria as it may deem desirable. (1) "Minority person" for the purpose of this article, means a United States c…

All rights, powers, duties, and authority relating to the procurement of supplies, services, and information technology and to the management, control, warehousing, sale and disposal of supplies, construction, information technology, and services now vested in or exercised by a s…

(1) Statement of Policy. The South Carolina General Assembly declares that business firms owned and operated by minority persons have been historically restricted from full participation in our free enterprise system to a degree disproportionate to other businesses. The General A…

(1) Assistance from the Chief Procurement Officers. The chief procurement officers shall provide appropriate staffs to assist minority businesses with the procurement procedures developed pursuant to this code. (2) Special Publications. The chief procurement officers in cooperati…

(A) The board shall promulgate regulations that designate such procurement contracts as it may deem appropriate for negotiation with certified, South Carolina-based minority firms, as defined by this subarticle. Among the criteria that shall be used to determine such designations…

(1) To emphasize the use of minority small businesses, each agency director shall develop a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Utilization Plan. The MBE Utilization Plan must include, but not be limited to: (a) the name of the governmental body; (b) a policy statement expressing …

(1) Progress Payments. The chief procurement officers may make special provisions for progress payments and letters of credit, as deemed reasonable to assist minority businesses to carry out the terms of a state contract pursuant to regulations which may be promulgated by the boa…

The Small and Minority Business Assistance Office shall report annually in writing to the Governor concerning the number and dollar value of contracts awarded for each governmental body to a firm certified as a minority firm pursuant to Section 11-35-5230 during the preceding fis…

The Division of Small and Minority Business Contracting and Certification must be established within the Department of Administration to assist the Department of Administration and the Department of Revenue in carrying out the intent of this article. The responsibilities of the d…

The following advisory committees may be established by the board for the purpose of advising the board: (a) The board may appoint a purchasing policies and procedures advisory committee comprised of state and local government, and public members to discuss the performance of pub…

(A) A public entity may not enter into a contract with a business to acquire or dispose of supplies, services, information technology, or construction unless the contract includes a representation that the business is not currently engaged in, and an agreement that the business w…

If the State, or county, city, public service district, or other political subdivision of the State, or agency, department, institution, or other public entity of the State, enters into a procurement contract and requires the bidder to provide a surety bond to secure the bid or t…

All political subdivisions of the State shall adopt ordinances or procedures embodying sound principles of appropriately competitive procurement no later than July 1, 1983. The State Fiscal Accountability Authority, in cooperation with the Procurement Policy Committee and subdivi…

A governmental body procuring goods or services under the Consolidated Procurement Code, and any agency or department of a political subdivision of this State procuring goods or services under the Consolidated Procurement Code or its own procurement code, may not accept any propo…

Irrespective of the source of funds, any school district whose budget of total expenditures, including debt service, exceeds seventy-five million dollars annually is subject to the provisions of Chapter 35, Title 11, and shall notify the Director of the Division of Procurement Se…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Head of the public procurement unit" means the individual with ultimate responsibility for the administration and operations of the state or local public procurement unit, as applicable. (2) "Iron or steel product" means any product made primaril…

(1) Authority to Promulgate Regulations. Except as otherwise provided in this code, the board may promulgate regulations, consistent with this code, governing the procurement, management, control, and disposal of all supplies, services, information technology, and construction to…

The dissemination of regulations relating to the implementation of this code shall be in accordance with Sections 1-23-10, et seq. of the 1976 Code.

(A) The board, upon the recommendation of the chief procurement officer, may exempt governmental bodies from purchasing certain items through the respective chief procurement officer's area of responsibility. The board may exempt specific supplies, services, information technolog…

There is hereby created, within the Division of Procurement Services, a Materials Management Office to be headed by the Materials Management Officer.

There is created within the Division of Procurement Services, the Information Technology Management Office to be headed by the Information Technology Management Officer. The office is responsible for administering all procurement and contracting activities undertaken for governme…

There is created within the board, the State Engineer's Office to be headed by the State Engineer. All procurements involving construction, architectural and engineering, construction management, and land surveying services, as defined in Section 11-35-2910, and any pre-procureme…

The Office of State Engineer must review properly completed schematic design, properly completed design development, and properly completed construction documents within a total of forty-five days of submission of documents.

Subject to the regulations of the board, the chief procurement officers may delegate authority to designees or to any department, agency, or official.

Each agency of state government that has total management capability as defined and certified by the State Engineer's Office must be allowed to oversee the administration of construction projects with the State Engineer's Office serving as an audit function. The State Engineer's …

This chapter may be cited as the South Carolina Resources Authority Act.

The bonds of the authority must be authorized by a resolution of the authority. The bonds must bear the date and mature at the time which the resolution provides, except that no bond may mature more than thirty years from its date of issue. The bonds may be in the denominations, …

In addition to the amount of bonds authorized by the authority, the State Treasurer shall include in the bond issue any fees and costs incurred by the Jobs Economic Development Authority to receive, research, investigate, and process any applications for projects not to exceed on…

(A) Bonds may be secured by a trust indenture between the authority and a corporate trustee, which may be the State Treasurer or any bank having trust powers or any trust company, designated by the State Treasurer doing business in South Carolina. A trust indenture may contain pr…

Any pledge made by the authority is valid and binding from the time the pledge is made. The revenue, money, or property pledged and thereafter received by the authority is immediately subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery or further act. The lien of any …

The authority, subject to agreements with bondholders as may then exist, may purchase outstanding bonds of the authority with any available funds, at any reasonable price. If the bonds are then redeemable, the price shall not exceed the redemption price then applicable plus accru…

Bonds of the authority must be in a form and must be executed in a manner prescribed by the authority.

In the event that any of the members or officers of the authority cease to be members before the delivery of any bonds signed by them, their signatures or authorized facsimile signatures are nevertheless valid and sufficient for all purposes as if they had remained in office unti…

Subsequent amendments to this chapter may not limit the rights vested in the authority with respect to any agreements made with, or remedies available to, the holders of bonds issued under this chapter before the enactment of the amendments until the bonds, with all premiums and …

(A)(1) The authority may create and establish one or more capital reserve funds and may pay into each capital reserve fund any: (a) monies appropriated and made available by the State for the purpose of such a fund; (b) proceeds of the sale of bonds of the authority to the extent…

The authority, with any funds of the authority available for such a purpose, may purchase and acquire, on terms and in a form determined by the authority, local obligations to finance or refinance the cost of any project. Prior to entering into any agreement with the authority, t…

The State may make, but is not required to make, grants of money or property to the authority for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its corporate purposes and for the exercise of its powers, including deposits to capital reserve funds. This section may not be construed to l…

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "Authority" means the South Carolina Resources Authority. (2) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates, bond, grant or revenue anticipation notes, or any other eviden…

(A) There is established by this section the Water Resources Coordinating Council which shall establish the priorities for all sewer, wastewater treatment, and water supply facility projects addressed in this chapter. The council shall consist of a representative of the Governor,…