| Show STATE SUPERVISION S OF CONTRACT WORK VORK Senator Lawrence Would Have Commonwealth Check 1 a on Work M ch PROTECTION FOR LABORERS Dill Bill Requires Bond Dond to Bo Do Mado Made to State Government and anil Claims for Services to o Bo Do Made Mado Direct State supervision of or all alt public contract contract contract con con- tract work whether the tho contract be bo bolet let by eil city county count township or town iu is contemplated In a bill Introduced Into tho the senate Friday by Senator Georgo George N. N Lawrence of ot Salt Lake county S The bill requires contractors to bond to secure tho the payment of ot labor performed and material furnished furn turn on the tho public work In fri which j they are engaged Instead of ot making this bond to tho the city county or town the new now law requires that the tho bond shall run to the tho state of or Utah for the tho benefit of or sub and labor labor- i ers ors Tho bill requires that any person having a claim against the contractor may sue suo on tho the bond providing ho gives notice of or such claim to tho the board of or commissioners trustees council or 01 whatever supervising body has let the contract S Text of or Bill Dill Tho text of or the tho bill Is as follows follow Section 1 When the state slate of ot Utah any county township town district or ot municipality shall shaH be bo about to engage In the tho construction of ot any public building bridge or other public pub pub- lie lic Improvement it shall shaH be tho the duty ot of thc tho public board ot officers having l In charge tho the contracting for tor tho the same to require the thc person or persons persons persons per per- i sons undertaking to construct such public building bridge or other public pub pUb- lie lic Improvement to enter Into a a. 1 proper bond with two or mora morts sut- sut clent sureties to bo be approved by said r board ot of conditioned tot tor or tho the payment In tn full by bY suc contractor j t S contractors of ot all an sub Hub S San an and l who shall furnish furnsho o- o or oi or perform of D mont Such uch hahl 8 d' d run Tun to thc tho h of Utah for to lot tho t. t o ot J such hub contractors or laborers and shall bo filed with tho county clerk cleric of or the tho county In which such contract v vIs Is IB to be performed and In caso of ot a breach In any of or tho conditions there there- re- re ot of suit may b bo be brought on such bond bondIn In lii tho the name p pt pf any ny such sub subcontractor sub tor tar or 01 laborer to recover reco for such amount as as' may be duo him JIlin for tor material materm ma ma- mas s term furnished for or labor Jabor performed performed performed per per- formed on such building building- bridge or other othor Improvement S Written Notice of or Claims Section 2 Any An person having a 0 claim chaim for tot tho lImo payment which the tho ol's in tho the bond provided for tor In Inthe the tho pr preceding n shall be bo liable shall shull give sI to such obligors ors written notice of ot tho the particulars s of such claim within 45 in days after atter the tho completion completion com corn of the tho work or 01 tho the furnishing of ot material by tho the claimant and no rio action shall be bo maintainable on any such bond in respect to td any claim of which said notice shall not have been given as us herein provId provided d. d Section 3 In any suit stilt or action prosecuted upon the bond provided for in section one tho the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover a a. reasonable attorneys attorney's fee tee not ex exceeding ex- ex c however howo tho the sum of 50 tiO to tobe tobo tobo bo be taxed as costs SESSION OF OP SENATE Seven Bills Introduced In Upper House One house Ono Measure l Passed l. l Seven Soven bills Introduced and ono one passed tho the adoption of or one ono committee commit commit- tee teo report and amid tho the returning of or ono one bill to committee sums up Fridays Friday's session of the senate When thc they ad adjourned adjourned adjourned ad- ad on motion of or Senator Williams Williams Wil Wil- liams it was to meet at Monday l afternoon Tho The consideration of senate bill No 15 by Mr brought forth a n. discussion of or tho the legal lI lights of or tho time upper house and resulted In several amendments which camo came close to Impairing impairing Im Im- im- im pairing tho the bill It provides for or pen pen- Continued on pu page o two t I C p J JS S STATE ATE SUPERVISION OF CONTRACT WORK Continued from pa page c 1 allies for violating county count In regard to highways After Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Lawrence and Benner X Smith had handled the tho bill 10 roughly ugh h Senator SenatorS S ely moved that since It Il had been chopped up the enacting clauso clause be stricken out The motion lost an anSe and Se Seii Senator tor won his first fight I when the bill was pa passed sed Senators Clegg Park lark Seely and Williams beIng being be be- ing hH the thc only onh ones against it Senator Millers Miller's bill providing rOtten rOt for forten ten feet of discovery elY work on all mining claims within 90 DO days also met rough usage In the senate It was battered by amen amendments ments an and finally recommitted to the mines and amI m mining committee President Lovo Love appointed Senators Lawrence Clegg liol Johnson and Bullen on tho the Joint com coni- with the house to investigate the coal shortage and alleged allege discrimination dis dis- dis- dis crimination In railroad rates |
