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45A.295 Definitions for terms used in KRS 45A.295 to 45A.320.
As used in KRS 45A.295 to 45A.320:
(1) "State public purchasing unit" shall mean the Finance and Administration
Cabinet and any other purchasing agency of this Commonwealth.
(2) "Local public purchasing unit" shall mean any county, city, governmental entity
and other subdivision of the Commonwealth or public agency thereof, public
authority, public educational, health, or other institution, any other entity which
expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of supplies, services, and
construction, and any nonprofit corporation operating a charitable hospital.
(3) "Public purchasing unit" shall mean either a local public purchasing unit or a
state public purchasing unit.
(4) "Foreign purchasing activity" shall mean any buying organization not located in
this Commonwealth which, if located in this Commonwealth, would qualify as a
public purchasing unit. An agency of the United States government is a foreign
purchasing activity.
(5) "Cooperative purchasing" shall mean purchasing conducted by, or on behalf of,
more than one (1) public purchasing unit, or by a public purchasing unit with a
foreign purchasing activity.
Effective:January 1, 1980
History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 59, effective January 1, 1980.
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