01/01/1976 ZONING BY-LAWS Minutes

Home Browse Search

i f� i Section 4. Any persons indebted to the Town for poll taxes or other- wise shall have such debt deducted before payment by the Treasurer from any sum due him from the Town for work on road or for any other service performed. Section 5. On all Town work, for the performance of which competi- tive bids are received, the award of the contract shall be to the lowest re- sponsible bidder; preference always going to citizens, when other condi- tions of the situation are equal. Section 6. All bids for advertised contracts of the Town shall be re- turnable at the Selectmen's office on a specific date and hour and shall be publicly opened and read by one of the Selectmen at that time. Section 7. All department heads of the Town shall prepare and submit to the Selectmen between January 1st and no later than February 15th of each year a complete inventory of all town-owned property for which their department is responsible. Section 8. As authorized in Chapter 40, Section 21, Clause 11 of the General Laws, any equipment to be disposed of by various officers or de- partments of the town shall first be offered to any other office or depart- ment of the town who may require it. Article MV. Town Contracts Section 1. On all contracts for labor, materials, supplies, equipment, merchandise or other articles, wherein the amount involved is $500.00 or more, the board, department,committee or officials of the town in charge of the expenditure of such money, shall be required to submit the award- ing of the same to public bid and no expenditure shall be permitted of $500.00 or in excess thereof unless the same shall have been awarded upon public bid. Section 2. All capital expenditures purchases (i.e. desks, chairs, type- writers, cabinets, etc.) of$50.00 or more will be submitted to the Board of Selectmen for approval before the purchase is consummated. 16 I'