38-1017 CONTRACT FOR CLEARING -- CONTRACTOR'S BONDS. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 38

FORESTRY, FOREST PRODUCTS AND STUMPAGE DISTRICTS

CHAPTER 10

STUMPAGE DISTRICTS

38-1017. Contract for clearing -- Contractor’s bonds. As soon as may be after the organization of a stumpage district and the report of a county surveyor with maps have [has] been received by the commissioners of said stumpage district, they shall proceed as soon as may be deemed expedient to let a contract for the stumping and clearing of said land in said district: provided, that said contract shall be let to the lowest bidder: provided further, that in case the whole or any portion of said land clearing is let to any contractor, said commissioners shall require the said contractor to give a bond equal to the amount of said contract so let, with two (2) or more sureties, to be approved by the board of commissioners of said stumpage district and running to said district as obligee therein, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract: provided further, that said contractor shall pay or cause to be paid all just claims of all persons performing labor or rendering service in the stumping and clearing of said lands: provided, further, that the said contractor shall pay for all material, merchandise or provisions furnished of any kind or character and used by said contractor in the stumping and clearing of said lands: provided, further, that no sureties on said bond shall be liable thereon unless the person performing said labor and furnishing said material, merchandise and provisions shall, within ninety (90) days after the completion of said work, file his claim, duly verified that the same is just, due, and unpaid, with the board of commissioners of said stumpage district: provided, further, no contract shall be let before a notice shall be published in a newspaper in said county, at least in two (2) issues of said paper, asking for bids for said work.