PRINTER'S NO. 1543
No. 1335 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY PRESTON, WAMBACH, HARPER, ANGSTADT, R. C. WRIGHT,
TRELLO, VAN HORNE AND LASHINGER, APRIL 26, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, APRIL 26, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act to promote public health, safety, morals,
3 and welfare by declaring the necessity of creating public
4 bodies, corporate and politic, to be known as housing
5 authorities to engage in slum clearance, and to undertake
6 projects, to provide dwelling accommodations for persons of
7 low income; providing for the organization of such housing
8 authorities; defining their powers and duties; providing for
9 the exercise of such powers, including the acquisition of
10 property by purchase, gift or eminent domain, the renting and
11 selling of property, and including borrowing money, issuing
12 bonds, and other obligations, and giving security therefor;
13 prescribing the remedies of obligees of housing authorities;
14 authorizing housing authorities to enter into agreements,
15 including agreements with the United States, the
16 Commonwealth, and political subdivisions and municipalities
17 thereof; defining the application of zoning, sanitary, and
18 building laws and regulations to projects built or maintained
19 by such housing authorities; exempting the property and
20 securities of such housing authorities from taxation; and
21 imposing duties and conferring powers upon the State Planning
22 Board, and certain other State officers and departments,"
23 increasing the maximum amount for which authorities may
24 contract or purchase without bids.
25 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
26 hereby enacts as follows:
27 Section 1. Section 11(a) and (b) of the act of May 28, 1937
28 (P.L.955, No.265), known as the Housing Authorities Law, amended
29 February 5, 1982 (P.L.17, No.8), are amended to read:
1 Section 11. Awards of Contracts; Completion Bond; Additional
2 Bond for Protection of Materialmen and Others.--
3 (a) Whenever the estimated cost of any construction,
4 erection, installation, completion, alteration, repair of, or
5 addition to, any project subject to the control of any Authority
6 shall exceed [four thousand ($4,000) dollars] ten thousand
7 ($10,000) dollars, it shall be the duty of said Authority to
8 have such work performed pursuant to a contract awarded to the
9 lowest responsible bidder, after advertisement for bids. Every
10 such contract shall contain a provision obligating the
11 contractor to the prompt payment of all material furnished,
12 labor supplied or performed, rental for equipment employed, and
13 services rendered by public utilities in or in connection with
14 the prosecution of the work, whether or not the said material,
15 labor, equipment or service enter into and become component
16 parts of the work or improvement contemplated. Such provision
17 shall be deemed to be included for the benefit of every person,
18 copartnership, association or corporation who, as subcontractor
19 or otherwise, has furnished material, supplied or performed
20 labor, rented equipment or services in or in connection with the
21 prosecution of the work as aforesaid, and the inclusion thereof
22 in any contract shall preclude the filing by any such person,
23 copartnership, association or corporation of any mechanics' lien
24 claim for such material, labor or rental of equipment.
25 (b) Whenever the estimated cost of any purchase of supplies,
26 materials or equipment or the rental of any equipment, whether
27 or not the same is to be used in connection with the
28 construction, erection, installation, completion, alteration,
29 repair of, or addition to, any project subject to the control of
30 any Authority, shall exceed [four thousand ($4,000) dollars] ten
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1 thousand ($10,000) dollars, it shall be the duty of such
2 Authority to have such purchase or rental made pursuant to a
3 contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, after
4 advertisement for bids, such advertisement to be inserted in a
5 newspaper of general circulation within the county in which the
6 Authority operates.
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8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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