§ 50. Purchases.
Be it further enacted, that the City Council of Cumming shall prescribe by ordinance how and by whom purchases for supplies, materials, and other necessary articles for said city and any department thereof shall be made or contracted in behalf of said city, and no purchase made in any other manner or by any other person than as prescribed in such ordinance shall be valid or binding on said city.
Any purchase of minor maintenance equipment shall not require advertisement but any purchase or sale of capital equipment or property or any purchase or sale for capital improvement shall be made by written bid and shall be advertised for at least two weeks prior to such purchase or sale in the official organ of the city.
(1953 Ga. Laws (Jan.—Feb. Sess.) (Act No. 411), page 3001, § 5)