Indiana Code 4-13.6-7-7. Performance bonds
(1) at least two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), the division shall; or
Terms Used In Indiana Code 4-13.6-7-7
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
require the contractor to execute a good and sufficient performance bond to the department for the state in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total contract price.
(b) The bond required under subsection (a) shall include at least the following provisions:
(1) The contractor shall well and faithfully perform the contract.
(2) No change, modification, omission, or addition in or to the terms or conditions of the contract, plans, specifications, drawings, or profile or any irregularity or defect in the contract or in the procedures preliminary to the letting and awarding of the contract shall affect or operate to release or discharge the surety in any way.
(3) The provisions and conditions of this chapter shall be a part of the terms of the contract and bond.
(c) The division may permit the bond given by the contractor to provide for incremental bonding in the form of multiple or chronological bonds that, if taken as a whole, equal the total contract price.
(d) The division may accept bonds provided on forms specified by the division or on forms given by surety companies.
(e) The division shall not release sureties of a contractor until the expiration of one (1) year after the final settlement with the contractor.
As added by P.L.24-1985, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.26-1989, SEC.15; P.L.22-1997, SEC.5; P.L.133-2007, SEC.5.