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90_HB1824
70 ILCS 2605/11.10 from Ch. 42, par. 331.10
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act.
Allows signatures on contracts or purchase orders involving
amounts in excess of $10,000 to be executed electronically.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 11.10.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 11.10 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/11.10) (from Ch. 42, par. 331.10)
8 Sec. 11.10. Every contract or purchase order involving
9 amounts in excess of $10,000 shall be signed by the president
10 or other duly authorized officer of the board of
11 commissioners, by the general superintendent, by the clerk
12 and by the purchasing agent. The signatures on the contracts
13 or purchase orders may be executed electronically. Each bid
14 with the name of the bidder shall be entered upon a record
15 which shall be open to public inspection in the office of the
16 purchasing agent. After the award is made, the bids shall be
17 entered in the official records of the board of
18 commissioners.
19 All purchase orders or contracts involving amounts of
20 $10,000 or less shall be let by the purchasing agent. They
21 shall be signed by the purchasing agent and the clerk. All
22 records pertaining to such awards shall be open to public
23 inspection for a period of at least one year subsequent to
24 the date of the award.
25 An official copy of each awarded purchase order or
26 contract together with all necessary attachments thereto,
27 including assignments and written consent of the purchasing
28 agent shall be retained by the purchasing agent in an
29 appropriate file open to the public for such period of time
30 after termination of contract during which action against the
31 municipality might ensue under applicable laws of limitation.
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1 Certified copies of all completed contracts and purchase
2 orders shall be filed with the clerk. After the appropriate
3 period, purchase orders, contracts and attachments in the
4 clerk's possession may be destroyed by direction of the
5 purchasing agent.
6 The provisions of this Act are not applicable to joint
7 purchases of personal property, supplies and services made by
8 governmental units in accordance with Sections 1 through 5 of
9 "An Act authorizing certain governmental units to purchase
10 personal property, supplies and services jointly," approved
11 August 15, 1961.
12 (Source: P.A. 83-835.)