MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

2455

Chapter 446 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1957
Section 1—13

being also

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Montgomery County
Section 42-23

Article 16 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1972 Edition, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1-13 of Chapter 446 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of 1957, being also Section 42—23 of
the Public Local Laws of Montgomery County being Article
16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1972
Edition, as amended), be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Chapter 446

1-13. (42-23)

If any project or any portion thereof or any
improvement thereof shall be constructed, equipped or
furnished pursuant to a contract and the estimated cost
thereof exceeds [one thousand dollars] $3,000, such
contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder after advertisement for bids. The authority may
Bake rules and regulations for the submission of bids and
the construction, equipping, furnishing and improvement
of any project or portion thereof. No contract shall be
entered into for construction, equipping, furnishing, or
improvement of any project, or portion thereof, or for
the purchase of materials, unless the contractor shall
give an undertaking with a sufficient surety approved by
the authority, and in an amount fixed by the authority,
for the faithful performance of the contract; and such
contract shall be accompanied by an additional bond for
the protection of those to furnish labor and material.
All construction contracts shall provide, among other
things, that the person or corporation entering into such
contract with the authority will pay for all materials
furnished and services rendered for the performance of
the contract, and that any person or corporation
furnishing such materials or rendering such services may
maintain an action to recover for the same against the
obligor in the undertaking as though such person or