39-1348 Construction; plans and specifications; advertisement for bids; failure of publication; effect.
39-1348. Construction; plans and specifications; advertisement for bids; failure of publication; effect.Before letting contracts for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of roads, bridges, and their appurtenances, the department shall advertise for sealed bids for not less than twenty days by publication of a notice thereof once a week three consecutive weeks in the official county newspaper designated by the county board in the county where the work is to be done, and in such additional newspaper or newspapers as may appear necessary to the department in order to give notice of the receiving of bids. Such advertisement shall state the place where the plans and specifications for the work may be inspected and shall designate the time when the bids shall be filed and opened; Provided, that if through no fault of the department, publication of such notice fails to appear in any newspaper or newspapers in the manner hereinbefore provided, the department shall be deemed to have fulfilled the requirements of this section. SourceLaws 1955, c. 148, § 48, p. 439; Laws 1961, c. 181, § 8, p. 541.