68-132. Same; contracts; specifications and bids; publication notice; bond of contractor; inspector. All contracts for such improvements costing more than $100 shall be in writing. At least twenty (20) days before the township board shall let any contract for such improvement, they shall cause accurate plans and complete specifications therefor, together with a detailed estimate under oath of the cost of such improvement, to be made by some competent persons and filed with the clerk of the township board, for the inspection of all persons interested therein.
The township board shall advertise for bids to do such work in accordance with such plans and specifications in a newspaper in general circulation in the county where such improvement is sought to be made at least ten days before the letting. All bids shall be in writing and signed by the bidder and presented to the township board by the bidder, his agent or attorney, at a public meeting thereof, and all bids shall be considered and accepted or rejected at such meeting. The contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, but the township board may reject any and all bids and shall not accept a bid in excess of the estimated cost of such improvement. The township board shall require the successful bidder to furnish a bond in equal amount of the cost of the improvement for the full and faithful performance of the contract, and another bond running to the people of the state of Kansas, conditioned for the payment of wages earned and material furnished in the performance of the contract. Said bond shall be for the full amount of said contract and shall be filed with the clerk of the district court of the county in which said township is situated.
The township board shall select a competent inspector, who shall inspect and see that said work is being done in accordance with the plans and specifications; said inspector shall receive for his services the sum of three dollars ($3) per day to be taxed as costs for such improvement and said cost shall be included in the bids of the contractors.
History: L. 1919, ch. 313, ยง 2; June 17; R.S. 1923, 68-132.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 68 - Roads And Bridges
Article 1 - General Provisions
68-102 Laying out, altering or vacating roads.
68-104 Viewers; notice of view; duties of county surveyor.
68-105 Notice by petitioner; affidavits of service; filing.
68-109 Road on county or city line; petition; viewers; filing survey and plat.
68-113 State-line roads; establishment; width limitation.
68-114 Proceedings for change in roads; eminent domain.
68-115a Township minimum maintenance roads.
68-116 Prescribed width of county roads; hedges; increase of width, when.
68-117 Access to public highway, when; petition; width of road and plat; payment of expenses.
68-117b Same; benefit district; damages; abandonment of proceedings, when; assessment of benefits.
68-118 Informational signs at intersections on township roads.
68-124 Private roads as public highways, maintenance.
68-126 Fences across public highways; gates; county commissioners' powers and duties.
68-131 Township sidewalks and crossings; petition; special assessments.
68-132 Same; contracts; specifications and bids; publication notice; bond of contractor; inspector.
68-133 Same; time for action to set aside or enjoin.
68-134 Same; penalty for removal or injury.
68-141a Renting or hiring of machinery and equipment prohibited; exceptions.
68-141b Supervision by experienced operator; times for renting; charges.
68-141f Setting aside portions of road and bridge or street funds; definitions.
68-141g Same; resolution of governing body; procedure; retransfer, when.
68-151 Vacating road in Labette county.
68-151h Same; how money expended.
68-151i Same; bond limitations inapplicable.
68-151j Same; federal or state aid.
68-151m Issuance of no-fund warrants for certain purposes by certain counties; definition.
68-151n Same; purposes; amount; conditions; tax levies to pay.
68-161 Authority of county commissioners.
68-164 Same; approval of certain plans and specifications by secretary of transportation.
68-165 Same; secretary of transportation not liable.
68-169 Joint agreements between secretary of transportation and local units and between local units.
68-170 Construction and improvement of roads and bridges on state owned lands; definitions.
68-171 Same; agreements between secretary of transportation and state agencies.
68-172 Same; agencies authorized to use funds.
68-173 Same; disposition of moneys.
68-183 Same; limitations on meaning of term "by purchase."
68-184 Sprinkling irrigation water on highways declared a public nuisance; injunction.