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§5A-3-1. Division created; purpose; director; applicability of article; continuation.

There is hereby created the purchasing division of the department of administration for the purpose of establishing centralized offices to provide purchasing, travel and leasing services to the various state agencies.
No person shall 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 shall have 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 shall apply to all of the spending units of state government, except as is otherwise provided by this article or by law: Provided, That the provisions of this article shall not apply to the legislative branch unless otherwise provided or the Legislature or either house thereof 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.