CHAPTER 229

AN ACT to amend and reenact S 11-17 of the Code of 1950 re-
lating to advertising for bids
[ H 462 ]

Approved March 15, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 11-17 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 11-17. Every contract in excess of twenty-five hundred
dollars, except in a case of emergency and except also contracts
for the purchase of stone, soil, lumber, borrow pits, gravel, sand,
hay, grain, repairs and supplies for standard equipment, and
other materials bought locally from farmers and property hold-
ers, to which the State of Virginia, or any department, institu-
tion or agency thereof is a party, for the construction, improve-
ment or repair of any building, highway, bridge, street, side-
walk, culvert, sewer, reservoir, dam, dock, wharf, draining,
dredging, excavation, grading, or other such construction work,
shall be let by the State, or such department, institution or agency
thereof, only after advertising for bids for the work at least ten
days prior to the letting of any contract therefor. The adver-
tisement shall state the place where bidders may examine the
plans and specifications for the work, and whether the contract
will be let for a lump sum or on a cost plus per centum or fee
basis, and the time and place where bids for the work will be
opened.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this section and of the
sections following, all bids for work on the highways shall be
governed by §§ 388-99 through 33-107 whenever any provision
of these sections is applicable.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from passage.