Andhra Pradesh Municipalities (Registration of Contractors) Rules 1978

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 44 read with sub_ section (1) of Section 326 of the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 (Act 6 of 1965), the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following rules for registration of contractors, the same having been published at pages 75 to 82 of the Rules Supplement to Part 1 of the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, dt. 16th February, 1978 as required by Clauses (a) and (b) of sub_section (1) of Section 327 of the said Act.

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R.1 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 1

These Rules may be called the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities (Registration of Contractor) Rules, 1978.

R.2 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 * [2

* [ Application for registration of contractors shall be considered by the Commissioner throughout the year.]

R.3 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 3

The registration of contractors shall be done in the following cases depending upon the monetary limits specified below:

Monetary Limit

Sl.No.	Name of Work	Class IRs.	Class II Rs.	Class III Rs.	Class IV Rs.
1.	Civil Works	2,00,000	1,00,000	50,000	10,000
2.	Sanitary and Water Supply	10,000	10,000	5,000

R.4 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 4

The fee to be levied for the registration of contractors shall be fixed by the Council for each class of the contractors, not exceeding the maximum limits as shown below:-

             Class I              --            Rs. 100 
             Class II             --            Rs. 50 
             Class III            --            Rs. 25 
             Class IV             --            Rs. 10

R.5 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 5

(1) Any person desirous of being registered as a contractor shall apply in the form prescribed, to the Commissioner enclosing a treasury receipt for the fee fixed and stating qualifications and previous experience with the list of works executed during past five years duly furnishing the date of agreement in respect of each work, date of completion. Penalities levied if any, value of work under execution on the date of application for registration. He shall also enclose a solvency certificate issued either by the Scheduled Banks on the basis of the deposits etc. held by the applicant or Solvency Certificate issued by the Revenue Authority not below the rank of a Tahsildar in respect of landed property and from the Municipal Commissioner in respect of buildings and other property situated in municipal limits for the amounts mentioned in Rule 3. The solvency Certificate should be produced in either of the forms prescribed in Appendix II a

R.6 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 6

(1) If any contractor desires to be registered for more than one of the categories, a single fee appropriate to the registration fee for higher class thereunder shall alone be payable. The application shall be referred to the Municipal Engineer, or his subordinate, where there is no Municipal Engineer, who shall make a full enquiry and send the application to the Commissioner with the record enquiry made by him and his recommendation in regard to the particulars in columns (4) and (5) of the Register of Contractors confidentially. The applicant shall enclose and income tax clearance certificate and sales tax clearance certificate at the final bill stage.

(2) In case of contract of Rs. 50,000 and above in value, the contractor irrespective of his class, shall be required to employ as follows technical personnel on the concerned works at his cost, whether technical skill is required or not:

R.7 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 7

A tender register shall be maintained by the Municipal Engineer or his Subordinate as the case may be, in the form given in Appendix-II. He shall scrutinise the entries in the register and certify as to their correctness with reference to the original tenders which shall be preserved and made available for audit and inspections. He shall submit the Tender Register and the tenders to the Commissioner with his recommendations. The Commissioner shall place them with his remarks before the competent authority to select the tender.

R.8 ANDHRA PRADESH MUNICIPALITIES (REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS) RULES, 1978 8

While registering the contractors, the Commissioner shall not insist from the retrenched and unemployed engineers for the production of solvency certificate at the time of registration and allow other concession to them granted by the Government from time to time.