As Amended
SEC. 51-29-59. Construction contracts.
The board of commissioners herein mentioned shall have control of the construction of the improvements in their districts. They may advertise in local papers or papers published in other states for proposals for doing any work by contract, no work exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) shall be let without public advertisement, and they may accept or reject any proposals. However, the board of commissioners may let contracts for work not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) without public advertisement where local funds concerned in the contract do not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and the remaining funds are furnished by the cooperating federal agency. The chancery court or chancellor in vacation may remove any commissioner and appoint his successor, upon proof of incompetency or neglect of duty; but the charge shall be in writing, and such commissioner shall have the right to be heard in his defense and to appeal to the circuit court.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 4457; 1930, Sec. 4476; 1942, Sec. 4702; Laws, 1912, ch. 195; 1970, ch. 273, Sec. 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 28, 1970).