PRINTER'S NO. 872
No. 781 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY TRELLO, WOZNIAK, HALUSKA, MELIO, LAUGHLIN, NAHILL,
MERRY, HECKLER, BARLEY, DISTLER, ADOLPH, COLAFELLA,
VAN HORNE, DOMBROWSKI, LEH, FARGO, BELFANTI, COWELL,
PISTELLA, HERMAN, ROBBINS, RITTER, STEIGHNER, HAGARTY, NOYE,
McCALL, FLICK, ROBINSON, CORNELL, VEON, GLADECK, McVERRY,
CLYMER, OLASZ, BIRMELIN, GEIST, S. H. SMITH, BILLOW,
GIGLIOTTI, E. Z. TAYLOR, R. C. WRIGHT, BURD, REBER AND
CORRIGAN, MARCH 14, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 14, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 6, 1936 (Sp.Sess., P.L.95, No.38
2 1/2), entitled "An act to authorize and empower cities,
3 boroughs, towns, and townships, separately or jointly, to
4 provide for protection against floods by erecting and
5 constructing certain works and improvements, located within
6 or without their territorial limits, and within or without
7 the county in which situate; and to expend moneys and incur
8 indebtedness; to assess benefits against property benefited;
9 to issue improvement bonds imposing no municipal liability;
10 and to acquire, take, injure or destroy property for such
11 purposes," further regulating purchases and bidding on such
12 purchases.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of August 6, 1936 (Sp.Sess.,
16 P.L.95, No.38 1/2), entitled "An act to authorize and empower
17 cities, boroughs, towns, and townships, separately or jointly,
18 to provide for protection against floods by erecting and
19 constructing certain works and improvements, located within or
20 without their territorial limits, and within or without the
1 county in which situate; and to expend moneys and incur
2 indebtedness; to assess benefits against property benefited; to
3 issue improvement bonds imposing no municipal liability; and to
4 acquire, take, injure or destroy property for such purposes,"
5 amended December 22, 1981 (P.L.553, No.163), is amended to read:
6 Section 3. No such works or improvements, involving an
7 expenditure by any municipality or municipalities of more than
8 [four thousand dollars ($4,000)] ten thousand dollars ($10,000),
9 shall be erected, constructed or provided, except by contract
10 let to the lowest responsible bidder after due advertisement,
11 once a week for two successive weeks in at least one newspaper
12 of general circulation: Provided, however, That no contract
13 shall be required to be let for the performance of the work on
14 any such work or improvement where the cost of the labor shall
15 be paid by the Federal Government, or any agency thereof,
16 without cost to the municipality or municipalities.
17 Every contract for the construction, reconstruction,
18 alteration, repair, improvement or maintenance of public works
19 shall comply with the provisions of the act of March 3, 1978
20 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the "Steel Products Procurement Act."
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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