(65 ILCS 5/8-10-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-10-16)
Sec. 8-10-16.
The purchasing agent may appoint the necessary employees of
his office in accordance with law. The number and salaries of such
employees shall be fixed by the corporate authorities. The purchasing agent
shall: (a) adopt, promulgate and from time to time revise rules and
regulations for the proper conduct of his office; (b) constitute the sole
agent of the municipality in contracting for labor, materials, services, or
work, the purchase, lease, or sale of personal property, materials,
equipment or supplies, in conformity with the provisions of this Division
10; (c) open all sealed bids; (d) determine the lowest or highest
responsible bidder, as the case may be, as required by this Division 10,
and purchase orders in conformity with this Division 10; (e) enforce
written specifications describing standards established in conformity with
this Division 10; (f) operate or require such physical, chemical or other
tests as may be necessary to insure conformity to such specifications with
respect to quality of materials; (g) exercise, or require, at central
storerooms or otherwise, such control as may be necessary to insure
conformity to contract provisions with respect to quantity; (h) distribute
or cause to be distributed, to the various requisitioning agencies of such
municipality, such supplies, materials or equipment, as may be purchased by
him; (i) transfer materials, supplies and equipment to or between the
various requisitioning agencies and to trade in, sell or dispose of such
materials, supplies or equipment as may become surplus, obsolete or
unusable; (j) control inventories and inventory records of all stocks of
materials, supplies and equipment of common usage contained in any central
or principal storeroom, stockyard or warehouse of such municipality; (k)
assume such related activities as may be assigned to him from time to time
by the mayor or the corporate authorities of such municipality, and (l)
submit to the mayor of such municipality an annual report faithfully
describing the activities of his office, which report shall be spread upon
the official public records of the corporate authorities of such
municipality or given comparable public distribution.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3599.)
|