The Office of Planning and Budget shall review and, if such contract is authorized by the appropriations Act, approve all contracts provided for by Code Section 45-12-130 and not otherwise approved by the Department of Administrative Services or the State Properties Commission. The Office of Planning and Budget is authorized to exempt, by rule or regulation, certain contracts and classes of contracts, and such exempt contracts shall be binding.
(Ga. L. 1972, p. 910, § 2.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Contracts that Office may not review.
- The Office of Planning and Budget may not review or authorize state contracts under these circumstances: (1) the contract is for $5,000 or less; (2) one of the other two agencies identified in O.C.G.A. § 45-12-131 has already approved the contract; and (3) the contract falls within one of the three areas exempted by O.C.G.A. § 45-12-132. 1984 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 84-20.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 73 et seq.
C.J.S.- 81A C.J.S., States, § 342.