32. The executive committee may, if so authorized by by-law of the Council, grant, without calling for tenders, contracts involving an expenditure less than $25,000. However, in the case of a contract for one of the objects contemplated in the first paragraph of section 120, involving an expenditure exceeding $5,000 and less than the amount fixed by the Council under this section, its awarding must be preceded by a call for tenders made by inviting at least two contractors or, as the case may be, two suppliers to tender.
However, in any case of irresistible force that might endanger the life or health of the population or seriously damage the equipment of the Community, the executive committee may order such expenditure as it considers necessary and grant the necessary contract to remedy the situation, upon the written request of its chairman or of the director general. The committee shall in such a case give a substantiated report to the Council at the next meeting.
1969, c. 84, s. 32; 1971, c. 90, s. 3; 1977, c. 80, s. 7; 1982, c. 18, s. 8.