Minnesota Session Laws - 1985, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1985 

                         CHAPTER 76-H.F.No. 863 
           An act relating to transportation; specifying the 
          method of payment for landscape contractors providing 
          goods or services to the department of transportation; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 161.32, by 
          adding a subdivision. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 161.32, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 6.  [LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS; PAYMENT.] When goods or 
services are provided to the commissioner by a landscape 
contractor for the landscaping of a trunk highway, the 
commissioner shall agree in the contract to pay the landscape 
contractor 100 percent of the value of the contract upon 
completion of the contracted work.  The commissioner may require 
the contractor, as part of the contract, to post a bond for a 
sum not exceeding 125 percent of the value of the contract, 
payable to the commissioner, and conditioned upon the work's 
compliance with the contract terms, for a period of one year 
beyond the work completion date. 
    Approved May 6, 1985