Code of Alabama
Chapter 12 - City Superintendents of Schools.
Section 16-12-7 - School Buildings and Grounds; Approval of Contracts Generally.

(a) The city superintendent of schools shall recommend to the city board of education for condemnation school buildings which are insanitary and unfit for use. He shall recommend all repairs, purchase of playgrounds, school grounds, school sites and buildings, or the sale of the same, and shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, all plans and specifications for the remodeling of old buildings and the construction of new buildings. He shall recommend, in his discretion, to the board of education an architect or architects to assist in the preparation of plans and specifications for remodeling old buildings, for the construction of new buildings and shall supervise such remodeling and construction.
(b) The city superintendent shall approve in writing all contracts of whatever kind entered into by the city board of education.

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