23A.3 - LOCAL PURCHASES.
23A.3 LOCAL PURCHASES.
A city, county, area education agency, or school district shall
adopt a policy for purchasing goods or services from private
enterprise which requires consideration of purchasing these goods or
services from a locally owned business located within the city,
county, area education agency, or school district which offers these
goods or services if the cost and other considerations are relatively
equal. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent or
prohibit the giving of a preference to businesses owned or operated
by minorities or females as may be provided in any other provision of
law. Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1230, §3