§5A-3-1 Division created; purpose; director; applicability of article; continuation.
§5A-3-1. Division created; purpose; director; applicability of article; continuation.
(a) The Purchasing Division of the Department of Administration is continued for the purpose of establishing centralized offices to provide purchasing, and travel services to the various state agencies. No person may be appointed director of the Purchasing Division unless that person is, at the time of appointment, a graduate of an accredited college or university and has spent a minimum of ten of the fifteen years immediately preceding his or her appointment employed in an executive capacity in purchasing for any unit of government or for any business, commercial or industrial enterprise. The provisions of this article apply to all of the spending units of state government, except as otherwise provided by this article or by law.
(b) The provisions of this article do not apply to the legislative branch unless otherwise provided or the Legislature or either house requests the director to render specific services under the provisions of this chapter, nor to purchases of stock made by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner, nor to purchases of textbooks for the State Board of Education.