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1979 Hawaii Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1979)

handle is hein.sag/saghi0028 and id is 1 raw text is: GEORGE R. ARIYOSHI WAYNE MINkMi GOVERNOR ATTORNEY GENERAL / LARRY L. ZENKER STATE OF HAWAII ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE CAPITOL HONOLULU, HAWAII 96813 (808) 548-4740 - May 23, 1979 Honorable Hideo Murakami Comptroller Department of Accounting and General Services P. 0. Box 119 Honolulu, Hawaii 96810 Dear Mr. Murakami: This is in response to your memorandum dated May 11, 1979, requesting an opinion from this office regarding the approval requirements for those exceptions to the bidding laws which are set forth in S103-23, H.R.S. That section provides in pertinent part as follows: Expenditures in excess of such sum without so contracting may be made, with the approval of the legislative body, in the case of a county, or of the governor, in the case of the State or of its board or other governing authority, in the case of any independent board or agency, when the expenditures are for repairs of roads, water works and buildings, or, with such approval, expenditures not in excess of $15,000 for alterations of buildings, or when the work to be done is of such a nature that its extent and character cannot be known or specified beforehand with reasonable certainty, or when no tender is received in response to an advertisement, or, with such Op. No. 79-1