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House File 2232

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Bill Introduced: H.J. 283
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 357A.12, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  1  2 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The procedures for contract letting specified in sections
  1  4 384.95 through 384.102 and as specified in section 384.103,
  1  5 subsection 2, shall apply to construction carried out pursuant
  1  6 to this chapter, except that the contract letting procedures
  1  7 shall apply when the estimated total cost of the improvement
  1  8 exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars.  References in those
  1  9 sections to a city shall be applicable to a rural water
  1 10 district operating under this chapter, and references to a
  1 11 city council shall be applicable to the board of directors of
  1 12 a rural water district.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 384.96, Code 1999, is amended to read as
  1 14 follows:
  1 15    384.96  SEALED BIDS.
  1 16    When the estimated total cost to a city of a public
  1 17 improvement exceeds the sum of twenty-five fifty thousand
  1 18 dollars, the governing body shall advertise for sealed bids
  1 19 for the proposed improvement by publishing a notice to bidders
  1 20 as provided in section 362.3, except that the notice to
  1 21 bidders may be published more than twenty days but not more
  1 22 than forty-five days before the date for filing bids.
  1 23    Sec. 3.  Section 384.102, Code 1999, is amended to read as
  1 24 follows:
  1 25    384.102  WHEN HEARING NECESSARY.
  1 26    When If the estimated total cost of a public improvement
  1 27 exceeds the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars specified in
  1 28 section 384.96, the governing body shall not enter into a
  1 29 contract for the improvement until it has held a public
  1 30 hearing on the proposed plans, specifications, and form of
  1 31 contract, and estimated cost for the improvement.  Notice of
  1 32 the hearing must be published as provided in section 362.3.
  1 33 At the hearing any interested person may appear and file
  1 34 objections to the proposed plans, specifications, contract, or
  1 35 estimated cost of the improvement.  After hearing objections,
  2  1 the governing body shall by resolution enter its decision on
  2  2 the plans, specifications, contract, and estimated cost.  
  2  3                           EXPLANATION
  2  4    This bill increases the estimated total cost of a city
  2  5 improvement which requires contract letting procedures from
  2  6 $25,000 to $50,000.
  2  7    The contracting procedures for a rural water district
  2  8 improvement which, by statutory reference, are the same as for
  2  9 a city are amended so that the estimated cost of an
  2 10 improvement which requires the public bidding remains at
  2 11 $25,000.  
  2 12 LSB 5639YH 78
  2 13 tj/gg/8

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