71-4-704 - Central nonprofit agency Designation Functions and operations Fee.
71-4-704. Central nonprofit agency Designation Functions and operations Fee.
(a) Under the provisions of § 71-4-703, the state, through the committee, may designate a central nonprofit agency to represent the work centers for the blind and agencies serving individuals with severe disabilities.
(b) The functions and operations of the designated central nonprofit agency shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Submit proposed rules and regulations necessary to implement this part. Such rules are to be submitted to, and approved by, the committee prior to promulgation;
(2) Ensure that the priorities for the production of commodities and services are maintained under this part;
(3) Evaluate the nonprofit qualifications and capabilities of qualified work centers to manufacture commodities or perform services and represent them to the committee under this part. In evaluating products, the central nonprofit agency must assure that participating work centers are contributing a value added to commodities or services that are being recommended under this program;
(4) Recommend pursuant to procedures approved by the board of standards, with appropriate justification, including recommended prices, suitable commodities or services for procurement from its work centers and as market conditions change, recommend price changes or revisions or the reassignment of commodities and services to and from the certified products list;
(5) Distribute and allocate, by direct allocation, subcontract or any other means, orders from governmental entities to its work centers;
(6) Maintain the necessary records and monitor data on its work centers to ensure compliance in the production of a commodity or performance of a service;
(7) When authorized by the committee, enter into contracts with the state procurement system for the furnishing of commodities or services provided by its work centers; and
(8) When distributing and allocating orders for commodities, priority shall be given to participating nonprofit work centers for the blind.
(c) The central nonprofit agency shall charge a fee to participating work centers for facilitating participation by their work centers under this part. This fee shall not exceed rates approved by the committee. The work center may factor this fee as an administrative expense into the product's overall cost.
[Acts 1991, ch. 499, § 1; 1996, ch. 827, §§ 11, 12; 2002, ch. 526, § 10.]