2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 309 - SECONDARY ROADS
309.41 - OPTIONAL ADVERTISEMENT AND LETTING.

        309.41  OPTIONAL ADVERTISEMENT AND LETTING.
         Contracts not embraced within the provisions of section 309.40 or
      309.40A shall be either advertised and let at a public letting; or,
      where the cost does not exceed the engineer's estimate, let through
      informal bid procedure by contacting at least three qualified bidders
      prior to letting the contract.  The informal bids received together
      with a statement setting forth the reasons for use of the informal
      procedure and bid acceptance shall be entered in the minutes of the
      board of supervisors meeting at which such action was taken.
         Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the
      board of supervisors from purchasing material and using county
      equipment and regularly employed county road personnel on a project
      within their capability as determined by the county engineer.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, § 4648; C31, 35, § 4644-c43; C39, § 4644.41; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 309.41] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2002 Acts, ch 1119, §41
         Referred to in § 331.341