Colorado § 37-24-101 - Construction - bids - advertising.

§ 37-24-101. Construction - bids - advertising.

After adopting a plan for a drainage system and providing for the payment of the same, or a designated part thereof by assessment or bonds, the board of directors shall give notice, by publication not less than twenty days prior to the date of opening proposals in a newspaper published in the county where the office of the drainage district is kept and in such other newspaper as may be deemed advisable, calling for bids for the construction of said work or any portion thereof; if less than the whole, then the portion of said system to be constructed shall be described in the notice. The notice shall set forth where the plans and specifications may be seen and that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the drainage district and a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder, giving the time and place for opening the proposals, which, at said time and place, shall be opened in public. The board of directors may enter into a contract with the lowest responsible bidder for the construction of the whole or any portion of the work mentioned in the notice, or may reject any and all bids and readvertise for proposals, or may proceed to construct the work under the supervision of the board of directors, and in that event all material shall be purchased from the lowest responsible bidders after proposals have been invited and notice thereof published.

Source: L. 11: p. 323, § 59. C.L. § 2173. CSA: C. 57, § 74. CRS 53: § 47-5-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 47-5-1.

Cross references: For publication of legal notices, see part 1 of article 70 of title 24.

ANNOTATION

Law reviews. For article, "Legal Classification of Special District Corporate Forms in Colorado", see 45 Den. L.J. 347 (1968).

Board must submit proposed expenditures even if work is done under its own supervision. The board of directors of a drainage district is not absolved from submitting a proposed expenditure of more than $10,000 to the owners of land within the district through an election as provided by § 37-21-114, even though the board proceeded to do construction work under its own supervision, as provided under this section, after releasing a contractor who had contracted to do such work. Swedlund v. Denver Joint Stock Land Bank, 108 Colo. 400, 118 P.2d 460 (1941).