Section 5-18B-2 - Certified check or cashier's check for percentage of bid or bid bond required. - South-dakota Statutes

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5-18B-2. Certified check or cashier's check for percentage of bid or bid bond required. If the invitation for bids is for the construction of a public improvement, each bid shall contain a certified check or a cashier's check, for five percent of the amount of the bid. Such check shall be certified or issued by either a state or a national bank and payable to the purchasing agency or to an officer of the purchasing agency letting the contract and inviting bids. In lieu of a check, a bid may contain a bid bond for ten percent of the amount of the bid. Such bond to be issued by a surety authorized to do business in this state payable to the purchasing agency, as a guaranty that the bidder will enter into a contract with the purchasing agency, its board or officers thereof, in accordance with the terms of the letting and bid in case the bidder be awarded the contract.

Source: SL 2010, ch 31, § 41.

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5-18B-2. Certified check or cashier's check for percentage of bid or bid bond required. If the invitation for bids is for the construction of a public improvement, each bid shall contain a certified check or a cashier's check, for five percent of the amount of the bid. Such check shall be certified or issued by either a state or a national bank and payable to the purchasing agency or to an officer of the purchasing agency letting the contract and inviting bids. In lieu of a check, a bid may contain a bid bond for ten percent of the amount of the bid. Such bond to be issued by a surety authorized to do business in this state payable to the purchasing agency, as a guaranty that the bidder will enter into a contract with the purchasing agency, its board or officers thereof, in accordance with the terms of the letting and bid in case the bidder be awarded the contract.

Source: SL 2010, ch 31, § 41.

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5-18B-2. Certified check or cashier's check for percentage of bid or bid bond required. If the invitation for bids is for the construction of a public improvement, each bid shall contain a certified check or a cashier's check, for five percent of the amount of the bid. Such check shall be certified or issued by either a state or a national bank and payable to the purchasing agency or to an officer of the purchasing agency letting the contract and inviting bids. In lieu of a check, a bid may contain a bid bond for ten percent of the amount of the bid. Such bond to be issued by a surety authorized to do business in this state payable to the purchasing agency, as a guaranty that the bidder will enter into a contract with the purchasing agency, its board or officers thereof, in accordance with the terms of the letting and bid in case the bidder be awarded the contract.

Source: SL 2010, ch 31, § 41.