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(iii) The purpose for which required;

(iv) The competency and responsibility of the bidder; and

(v) The ability of the bidder to perform satisfactory service.

(2) The county board may reject any and all bids and readvertise for other
bids.

[(3) In Montgomery County, the County Board may:

(i) Provide in its bid specifications that a product grown, mined, or
manufactured in the Republic of South Africa may be rejected; and

(ii) Reject a bid for a product grown, mined, or manufactured in the
Republic of South Africa.]

Article - State Finance and Procurement

[6-208.                                                                             

(a)     This section does not apply to a loan that is outstanding on December 31,
1984.

(b)     The Treasurer may riot use a financial institution as a depositary unless the
financial institution certifies, in writing, that it has no direct loans and no foreknowledge
of any indirect loans outstanding to a governmental unit or national corporation of the
Republic of South Africa.

(c)     If direct or indirect loans described in subsection (b) of this section are made
by a foreign or out-of-state financial institution without the participation of a subsidiary
or affiliated corporation, subsection (b) of this section does not apply to the subsidiary or
affiliated corporation.]

[Subtitle 5. Purchases from the Republic of South Africa]

[14-501.

(a) In this subtitle, "doing business with or in the Republic of South Africa"
means:

(1)     having in the Republic any operations or a majority owned subsidiary
that employs more than 20 employees;

(2)     providing financial services to the government of the Republic, including
providing direct loans, underwriting government securities, or promoting the sale of gold
coins from the Republic; or

(3)     providing any supplies or services to the government of the Republic
except supplies or services provided for an educational, medical, charitable, or religious
purpose:

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