Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                         CHAPTER 23-H.F.No. 646 
           An act relating to state government; purchases; 
          amending the definition of "manufactured in the United 
          States"; amending Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 
          16B.101, subdivision 1. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 16B.101, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] As used in this section, the 
following terms have the meanings given them: in this 
subdivision.  
    (a) "Public agency" includes all state agencies, the 
University of Minnesota, the state university board, and the 
state board for community colleges, and any contractor acting 
pursuant to under a contract with a public agency;. 
    (b) "Materials" means any goods, supplies, equipment, or 
any other tangible products or materials, including foods;. 
    (c) "Manufactured" means mined, grown, produced, 
manufactured, fabricated, or assembled;. 
    (d) "Manufactured in the United States" means materials 
manufactured in whole or in substantial part within the United 
States or that the a majority of the whose component parts 
thereof were manufactured in whole or in substantial part in the 
United States;.  Salt mined in Canada is considered to have been 
manufactured in the United States for purposes of this section. 
    (e) "Purchase" means acquire by purchase or lease. 
     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor April 9, 1991 
    Signed by the governor April 11, 1991, 4:30 p.m.