7-25-14. Appointment of superintendent to oversee construction–Progress payments based on superintendent’s reports.
The board may appoint a competent superintendent, who may be the architect furnishing the plans and specifications for such building or buildings and such superintendent shall report to the board every thirty days as to the progress and character of the work done by the contractor, and upon the reports of the superintendent payments to the extent of the percent specified in §7-25-10 or the percent embodied in the contract shall be made to the contractor from time to time during the process of construction, divided into such installments as the board and the contractor may agree upon at the time of entering into the contract, and which shall be included in and be a part of the terms of the contract. None of such payments, however, shall be held to constitute an acceptance in whole or in part, by the board prior to the making of the final payment and acceptance in full completion of the contract.
Source: SL 1874-5, ch 27, §49; PolC 1877, ch 21, §45; CL 1887, §609; SL 1889, ch 49, §1; SL 1895, ch 53, §1; RPolC 1903, §849; SL 1915, ch 129; RC 1919, §5885; SDC 1939, §12.2308; SL 1955, ch 22; SL 1963, ch 51.