Arkansas Code
Chapter 2 - Building Authority Division Act
§ 22-2-103. Applicability — Construction with other laws

(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the construction and reconstruction of roads and bridges in the state highway system by the State Highway Commission. Except as specifically provided in Title 24, neither the provisions of this chapter nor the provisions of any other chapter of the Code shall apply to any lands, buildings, or other structures or facilities now owned or hereafter acquired by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, as defined in the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System Affordable Housing Investment Act, § 24-7-1401 et seq., as an investment or as a result of the investment of assets of the system or pursuant to the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System Affordable Housing Investment Act, § 24-7-1401 et seq. [repealed].
(b) The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to affect any bonds issued by state agencies or any covenants or obligations entered into in connection with such bonds or any revenues pledged or used in the security or payment of such bonds, or the production, handling, deposit, or application of such revenues, including bonds issued by the Arkansas Justice Building Commission, pursuant to § 22-3-901 et seq., by the Arkansas State Department of Health Building Commission [abolished], pursuant to Acts 1965, No. 469, by the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism or the agency performing the functions thereof, pursuant to § 22-4-301 et seq., or by the Board of Developmental Disabilities Services or the agency performing the functions thereof, pursuant to § 20-48-411 and § 20-48-501 et seq.
(c) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply in any manner so as to affect, supersede, or in any other way alter the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities as created by §§ 10-3-1101 — 10-3-1104 and 10-3-1106 — 10-3-1110, and the provisions of §§ 10-3-1101 — 10-3-1104 and 10-3-1106 — 10-3-1110 shall not be repealed by this chapter.
(d)
(1) However, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, § 19-4-101 et seq., be applicable to all provisions and implementations of this chapter insofar as the provisions and implementation of this chapter are not in direct conflict with that law.
(2) It is the further intent that all procedures for contract bidding now or hereafter established by law or regulation applicable to capital improvements, as defined by this chapter, of state agencies shall be in full force and effect as to the implementation of the provisions of this chapter.