Pennsylvania Act 1895-24 — COUNTY BUILDINGS, REGULATED

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COUNTY BUILDINGS, REGULATED
                  Act of Apr. 19, 1895, P.L. 38, No. 24               Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     To regulate the erection of county buildings.

        Section 1.  Plans and contracts to be approved; advertisement
        Whenever the commissioners of any county are authorized and
     required to erect a courthouse, jail, or other county building,
     they shall submit the plans and specifications adopted by them
     to the judges of the court of common pleas of the proper county
     for their approval, and when it is obtained they shall let the
     work by contract to the lowest and best bidder, after three
     weeks' public notice in two newspapers published in the county,
     which contract or contracts shall be made subject to the
     approval of the said judges.
        In any county in which the board of commissioners does not
     levy the taxes for general county purposes, the plans and
     specifications shall be submitted to and approved by, and the
     contract or contracts shall be let subject to the approval of,
     the body which levies the taxes for general county purposes, and
     submission to or approval by the court of common pleas shall not
     be required.  1895, April 19, P.L. 38, Sec. 1; 1923, July 13,
     P.L. 1092, Sec. 1.