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File #: 2020-0121    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 2/14/2020 In control: Committee on Finance and Law
On agenda: 3/4/2020 Final action: 3/10/2020
Enactment date: 3/10/2020 Enactment #: 7
Effective date: 3/13/2020    
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article VII: Procedures, Chapter 161.22: Debarment from Bidding on and Participating in City Contracts in order to change the requirement of an affidavit to be a certification which will simplify the contracting process and reduce costs to our suppliers by no longer requiring the document to be notarized.
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 01 - ADMINISTRATIVE
Attachments: 1. Summary 2020-0121
Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article VII: Procedures, Chapter 161.22: Debarment from Bidding on and Participating in City Contracts in order to change the requirement of an affidavit to be a certification which will simplify the contracting process and reduce costs to our suppliers by no longer requiring the document to be notarized.

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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.

? 161.22 - DEBARMENT FROM BIDDING ON AND PARTICIPATING IN CITY CONTRACTS.
(a) Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this section shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) AFFILIATE. Persons directly or indirectly, either one (1) controls or can control the other, or a third controls or can control both.
(2) AGENT. Any director, officer, servant, employee or other person authorized to act on behalf of the corporation or association and, in the case of an unincorporated association, a member of the association.
(3) CONVICTION. An entry of a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere, or a verdict of guilty by a jury or a judge sitting without a jury.
(4) ENTERPRISE. Any individual, partnership, corporation, business, company, association or other legal entity and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, engaged in commerce.
(5) HIGH MANAGERIAL AGENT. An officer of a corporation or an unincorporated association, company or business or, in the case of a partnership, a partner or any other agent of a corporation, company, business or association having duties or such responsibility that his or her conduct may fairly be assumed to represent the policy of the corporation or association.
(6) PERSON. An individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or other public or private entity.
(7) SUBSTANTIAL STOCKHOLDER. A stockholder who, in the aggregate, direct...

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