Section 31-14-7 - Lump-sum bids on bridge construction--Unit price bids on foundation orabutment materials. - South Dakota Statutes

31-14-7. Lump-sum bids on bridge construction--Unit price bids on foundation or abutment materials. Upon determining the necessity of any such bridges, abutments, repairs, or approaches to bridges, the county commissioners shall immediately cause to be filed in the office of the county auditor of such county, complete plans and specifications thereof, as described in § 31-14-5 and thereafter, if such bridges, abutments, repairs, or approaches be let by contract, bids in lump sum shall be procured on each bridge or piece of work separately, except that all materials for use in constructing foundations or abutments shall be bid on per cubic yard for concrete, per foot board measure for lumber, per pound for steel, and per lineal foot for piling driven, said unit prices to be added to or deducted from the contract price, if more or less material is required in such foundation than specified in the plans and specifications.

Source: SL 1919, ch 333, § 32; SL 1920 (SS), ch 89; SDC 1939, § 28.1405; SL 1961, ch 142, § 2.