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Ohio Rev. Code § 153.50 (2026)

Separate bids for work and materials

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Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
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(A) As used in sections 153.50 to 153.52 of the Revised Code:

(1) "Construction manager at risk" has the same meaning as in section 9.33 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Design-assist services" means monitoring and assisting in the completion of the plans and specifications.

(3) "Design-assist firm" means a person capable of providing design-assist services.

(4) "Design-build firm" has the same meaning as in section 153.65 of the Revised Code.

(5) "General contracting" means constructing and managing an entire public improvement project, including the branches or classes of work specified in division (B) of this section, under the award of a single aggregate lump sum contract.

(6) "General contracting firm" means a person capable of performing general contracting.

(B) Except for contracts made with a construction manager at risk, with a design-build firm, or with a general contracting firm, an officer, board, or other authority of the state, a county, township, municipal corporation, or school district, or of any public institution belonging thereto, authorized to contract for the erection, repair, alteration, or rebuilding of a public building, institution, bridge, culvert, or improvement and required by law to advertise and receive bids for furnishing of materials and doing the work necessary for the erection thereof, shall require separate and distinct bids to be made for furnishing such materials or doing such work, or both, in their discretion, for each of the following branches or classes of work to be performed, and all work kindred thereto, entering into the improvement:

(1) Plumbing and gas fitting;

(2) Steam and hot-water heating, ventilating apparatus, and steam-power plant;

(3) Electrical equipment.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 1959–1999 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Schaefer v. Bd. of Cnty. Commrs., 229 N.E.2d 88 (Ohio Ct. App. 1967).
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State Ex Rel. Schaefer v. Bd. of Cnty. Commrs., 229 N.E.2d 88 (Ohio Ct. App. 1967). · cites it 8× “Section 153.50, Revised Code, provides that an officer, board or other authority of the state, a county, etc.”
Nat'l Elec. Contractors Ass'n v. City of Mentor, 108 Ohio App. 3d 373 (Ohio Ct. App. 1995). · cites it 14× “(collectively, “appellees”), appeal from the decision of the court finding that appellant’s charter conferred authority to deviate from the requirements of R.C. 153.50. Appellee Ralph Day is a resident and taxpayer in the city of Mentor.”
Weibel v. Poda, 186 N.E.2d 504 (Ohio Ct. App. 1962). · cites it 12× “” In Title I, State Government, Chapter 153, Buildings, of the Revised Code, is found Section 153.50, which says: “An officer, board, or other authority of the state, a county, township, municipal corporation, or school district, or of any public institution belonging thereto,…”
Ritchey Produce Co., Inc. v. Ohio Dept. of Adm. Serv., 1999 Ohio 262 (Ohio 1999). · cites it 4× “division (B) of this section and that the total value of both the materials purchased from minority businesses certified 2 January Term, 1999 under division (B) of this section and of the subcontracts awarded * * * to such minority businesses will equal at least seven per cent…”
F. Buddie Contracting, Ltd. v. Cuyahoga Cmty. Coll. Dist., 31 F. Supp. 2d 571 (N.D. Ohio 1998). · cites it 2× “151 which provides that: “In the ease of contracts specified in division (A) of section 153.50 of the Revised Code [for bids on construction contracts], the total value of subcontracts awarded to and materials and services purchased from minority businesses'shall be at least ten…”
State ex rel. Ohio Mech. Contracting Indus., Inc. v. City of Cleveland, 605 N.E.2d 386 (Ohio 1992). “Relators, two mechanical trade contractors and two organizations representing such contractors, contend that R.C. 153.50 et seq. requires the city to allow *1212 bids for portions of the work, such as electrical work, plumbing, or heating.”
Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union 83 v. Union Local Sch. Dist. Bd. of Edn., 1999 Ohio 109 (Ohio 1999). “The complaint alleges that in 1996, appellee decided to construct and/or renovate several school buildings in the Union Local School District and that in soliciting and accepting bids for the project, appellee violated its duties and obligations under Ohio’s competitive-bidding…”
Prout Boiler, Heating & Welding, Inc. v. Dickson, 164 N.E.2d 423 (Ohio Ct. App. 1959). · cites it 2× “In the Moyer case the court held “§§153.50, 153.51 and 153.52 R. C., to be general statutory provisions which cover other subjects as well as the specific subject matter with which we are concerned.”
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