187.04. Open order purchases.
   In any purchase involving an expenditure of less than the amount specified in Section 228 of the Charter the appropriation for such purchase shall be sufficient authority for the purchase. All such purchases and all other purchases in the amount of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) shall be made with informal competition under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Section.
(1952 Code § 3-9-8; Ord. 832-03. Passed 12-23-03.)