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662 EXHIBIT B Sec. 421. Contracts, purchases, public works--Formalities. The city shall not be bound by any contract, except as hereinafter provided, unless the same shall be made in writing by order of the city council and signed by some officer in behalf of the city who has been authorized to do so by the city council. The approval of the form of all contracts shall be endorsed thereon by the city attorney, or his designated representative. The city council may authorize by the affirmative votes of a majority of its members, any officer of the city to bind the city on contracts in writing without advertising and without previous approval by the city council of each specific item for the payment of charges for materials, supplies, labor equipment or other valuable consideration furnished the city, in amounts not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) in any one contract. Further, the city council may authorize, by the affirmative votes of a majority of its members, the city manager to bind the city on contracts in writing without advertising and without previous approval by the city council of each specific item for the payment of charges for materials, supplies, labor, equipment, other valuable consideration to be furnished the city, or for emergency public works construction (as hereinafter defined), in amounts not exceeding the management contract limit (as hereinafter defined) without a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder after notice, in any one contract. Nothing herein contained shall authorize any person to bind the city on any such contract if the same be a portion of a larger purchase or series of purchases which, in the aggregate, exceed the authority herein specified. Every contract involving an expenditure of more than the management contract limit (as hereinafter defined) for materials, supplies, labor, equipment, other valuable consideration, or for public works construction (as herein- after defined) shall be made by the city council with the lowest and best bidder after publication for at least two (2) days in a newspaper of general circulation in the city of notice calling for bids and fixing a period during which such bids will be received, which shall be for not less than ten (10) days after the first publication of said notice.