ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 403
(By Senator Tomblin, Mr. President)
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[Passed March 10, 2007; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §7-15-16 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to increasing the limitation
requiring sealed bids for certain purchases and contracts
entered into by emergency ambulance service authorities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §7-15-16 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 15. EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ACT OF 1975.
§7-15-16. Competitive bids; publication of solicitation for
sealed bids.
A purchase of or contract for all supplies, equipment and
materials and a contract for the construction of facilities by any
authority, when the expenditure required exceeds the sum of ten
thousand dollars, shall be based on competitive sealed bids. Bids
shall be obtained by public notice published as a Class II legal
advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three,
chapter fifty-nine of this code and the publication area for publication is the service area of the authority. The second
publication shall be made at least fourteen days before the final
date for submitting bids. In addition to publication, the notice
may also be published by any other advertising medium the authority
may consider advisable and the authority may also solicit sealed
bids by sending requests by mail to prospective suppliers and by
posting notice on a bulletin board in the office of the authority.