7-5-4308. Procedure to modify contract. (1) When it becomes necessary in the prosecution of any work to make alterations or modifications of the specifications or plans of a contract, such alteration or modification must only be made by resolution of the council. Such resolution is of no effect until the price to be paid for the same is agreed to in writing and signed by the contractor and approved by the council.
     (2) No contractor must be allowed anything for extra work caused by an alteration or modification unless a resolution is made and an agreement signed as provided in subsection (1). He must not in any case be allowed more for such alteration than the price fixed by such agreement.

     History: En. Secs. 4809, 4810, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Secs. 3280, 3281, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Secs. 5072, 5073, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Secs. 5072, 5073, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1204, 11-1205.