Chatsworth Ordinances

CHAPTER 7

GENERAL TOWN GOVERNMENT

ARTICLE 2 — CONTRACTS OVER $10,000.00

SECTION:

7.2.1             Specifications; Bids; Awards

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7.2.1            SPECIFICATIONS; BIDS; AWARDS: Except as otherwise provided, all contracts, of whatever character, pertaining to public improvement, or to the maintenance of the public property of a municipality involving an outlay of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.90) or more, shall be based upon specifications to be approved by the Board of Trustees, and shall be constructed as follows:

A.      By a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertising for bids, in the manner prescribed by ordinance, except that any such contract may be entered into by the proper officers without advertising for bids, if authorized by a vote of four (4) of the six (6) Trustees elected; or

B.        In the following manner, if authorized by a vote of four (4) of the six (6) Trustees elected: The Superintendent of Public Works or other proper officers to be designated by ordinance, shall superintend and cause to be carried out the contraction of the work or other public improvement and shall employ exclusively for the performance of all manual labor thereon, laborers and artisans whom the Town shall payby the day or hour, but all material of the value of five thousand dollars ($10,000.00) and upward used in the contraction of work or other public improvement, shall be purchased by contract let to the

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