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  SECTION 334.185. Financial responsibility for construction, material, or design failures; review of contracts; financial assurances.  


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  • 1The department shall request its legal staff, prior to awarding any contract, to review the contract to determine the responsibilities of the parties for construction, material, or design failures. The department shall, whenever practical, minimize its responsibility for such failures. The department legal staff shall review and comment on all contracts to:
    53(1) 54Determine the legal responsibility for construction, material, or design failures.
    64(2) 65Advise the department on ways to minimize the responsibility of the department for such failures.

    80The department may require financial assurances, including, but not limited to, bonds, liability insurance or other form of insurance, or letters of credit, to provide that the responsibilities of the parties to a contract will be met.

History.-s. 22, ch. 84-309.

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