The department shall be authorized to execute supplemental agreements to the original contract covering changes or revised or new unit prices and items and supplementing the original contract not to exceed a 20 percent increase in cost of the project and to execute extension agreements affecting the length of the project which may be increased by adding sections to said project or by relocation of said project not to exceed 20 percent of the total length of the project or 20 percent of total contract cost.
(Ga. L. 1949, p. 373, § 4; Code 1933, § 95A-814, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Department of Transportation professional service contracts.
- While the provisions of O.C.G.A. § 32-2-73 do not apply to contracts for professional services, which are governed by O.C.G.A. § 50-22-1 et seq., legislation is required to allow the Department of Transportation to exceed the limitations of such professional services contracts found in O.C.G.A. § 50-6-25(b). 1994 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U94-14.