7-5-2304. Exemptions from competitive bidding requirements. The provisions of 7-5-2301 and 7-5-2302 shall not apply to contracts for:
     (1) public printing entered into in accordance with the provisions of part 24; and
     (2) purchases which, in the opinion of the governing body, are made necessary by fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, other elements, epidemic, riot or insurrection, or for the immediate preservation of order or the public health or for the restoration of a condition of usefulness which has been destroyed by accident, wear, tear, or mischief or for the relief of a stricken community overtaken by calamity.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 8, L. 1933; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 87, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 4605.1, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 42, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 128, L. 1951; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 25, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 331, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 127, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 55, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 16-1803(part).