Pennsylvania Act 1937-38 — VALIDATING SCHOOL BOARD CONTRACTS

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VALIDATING SCHOOL BOARD CONTRACTS
                  Act of Mar. 30, 1937, P.L. 113, No. 38              Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     To validate and confirm certain contracts, heretofore entered
        into by boards of school directors, where there is no
        evidence of fraud or conspiracy, and to authorize, ratify,
        confirm, and validate payments on such contracts by the
        school district.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any board of
     school directors of any school district shall have heretofore
     contracted for labor, materials, and supplies for the school
     district, the purchase of which by contract is authorized under
     the provisions of the school laws of the Commonwealth, and such
     board of school directors has actually received such labor,
     materials, and supplies, and the same are being used by the
     school district, if the said contract does not evidence any
     fraud or conspiracy to violate the provisions of the school laws
     of the Commonwealth, and the school district has not suffered
     any pecuniary loss as the result of such contract, then such
     contract shall be valid and binding on the school district, and
     payment for such labor, materials, and supplies by the school
     district is hereby authorized, ratified, confirmed, and
     validated, notwithstanding the fact that such contract was
     legally null and void by reason of the failure to advertise for
     bids, or by reason of defect in the advertising, or by reason of
     any other defect in compliance with or in the failure or
     omission to comply with the school laws of this Commonwealth
     regulating the award of contracts for such labor, materials, and
     supplies. No board of school directors, nor any members thereof,
     shall be subject to surcharge for payments made by any board of
     school directors on any such contract.
        Section 2.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     its final enactment.