**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS**

**. AUSTIN** 

Honorable Kenneth W. Clark County Auditor WardCounty Honahen~, Texas Dear Sir:

et bid rocelved, the contract wae t advert lslng for

partment on the nlon OSthle deabeen received.

or as f0ii03f0: 11 your department not anexpmditare onstruotion of an oonpetltive bide were ai and let to the lowest bid not advertised void. thank you and refer you to your QBBwhich you rendered mereoentruotion of an exhibit building
*Thls.~*contraot wae let to the lowest and beet bidder and building completed but the bids were not adrertired for ia the paper **and** If rou will wire meoolleet eqlng whether or not eontraot is good or not and ii I @anOF@annot :;g$y approve 8am0. I will oertalnly appreolate

.Honorable Kenneth H. Clark, Page 2

Section 2, of Artlale 2368a, 

### Vernontat **Annotated** Cltll Statutes, readr in part a8 follovr:

‘Sec. 2. 

### Nocounty acting through its 

### Comalesioneret Court, and no olty in this State, shall herealter make

### orenter into any oontraot or agreement for the oonatruotlon OSany pub110 building, or the proreoutlon and oompletlon oi anypub110work raqulrlAg or authorizing any ox-

‘Iendlture in lxoeae of TwoThousandDollarr $2,000.00), oreatlng or lmpoelng an obllgatlon or liability of any nature or oharacter upon such **oounty,** or **any** eubdirleion of 6aoh oouatr, or 

### uponauoh 

### olty,without flrrt eubmltting mah proposed **oontraot or**  agrerment to oompetltlro bldr. hlotlor of time **and** plaoe vhui andwhere ouch oontraot ehall be let shall be published 

### Insuoh **oounty** (lf oonoemlng a county oontraot or oontraot for euoh subdlrlrion of ouoh oountyf and in ruoh olty (If oonoemlng a olty oontraot), onoe a

### wok for two ooneeoutlre vrekr prior to the time set for letting ruoh oontraot the date of the first publloation to be at learc Sourteen daya prior to the date ret for letting said **oon** tract, and raid oontraot &all 

### be letto the lowest re~onelble bidder, on the re#peotiYs **type** or oonetruotlon seleoted. * * l If there Isno newspaper published in ruoh **oounty,** theinotloo of the letting of such oontraot by euoh oounty shall be given by oaue&ngnotioe thereoi to be posted **at** the County Courthoure door ior fourteen (14) darr prior to the 

### timeof letting ruoh oontraot. l e * *Anyand all such contraots or agraementr hereafter madeby any oounty or olty In thla Etate, without oomplylng with the terms of this Section, shall be 

### Told,andshall not be enforobable **In** any **Court of**  thle State, andthr performanoe of cameand the 

### paymentof my money thereunder maybe enJoined by any

### propertytaxpaying oltlzen oi each oouaty or city.' For the purpose6 of this oglnlon, under the faotr stated 

### inyour letter, we assume **that** the Comm1880nem1

### HonorableKenneth W. Clark, 

### Page3

Court contrasted for the oonetruotion of the exhibit bullding ae a 

### l

turnksyH proposition and ?ld not purohaso the materiel and employ aday labor uto oonetruot the sameas lndloeted in 

### a **former** 

### letterfrom you requeetlag our oplnion on certain questions vhloh were anevered In our opinion No. o-2955.Section 2 or Artlole 2368e, supra, epeolfloally provides that any and all such oontreots or agreements **made**by any county without oomplylag vith the terms.-of l ald Section shell be void. Under the Wrote stated la your letter, the above mentioned section of the statute wadnot ooaplled with with nferenoe to giving notloe or advertising for bide 

### aaprovlded therein, therefore, you are reweotfully advlerd that It le the opinion of this department that the above mentioned contraot le void.

Truetlng that the foregoing fully anawere your inquiry, we are

**AW:LH** Pours very truly **ATTORNEY**QEWICRAL

OF.?%Xi@
H@AsL.w BY &dell Wllllane

Aeeletant

APPROVEDJAN

18, 1941