To the extent permitted by federal laws and regulations, whenever the state of Idaho, or any department, division, bureau or agency thereof, or any city, county, school district, irrigation district, drainage district, sewer district, highway district, good road district, fire district, flood district, or other public body, shall let for bid any contract to a contractor for any public works, the contractor domiciled outside the boundaries of Idaho shall be required, in order to be successful, to submit a bid the same percent less than the lowest bid submitted by a responsible contractor domiciled in Idaho as would be required for such an Idaho domiciled contractor to succeed over the bidding contractor domiciled outside Idaho on a like contract being let in his domiciliary state.
Idaho Code § 67-2348
Preference for Idaho domiciled contractors on public works
Known as the Energy Facility Site Advisory Act
The act spans §§ 67–67 (56 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Big D Construction Corp. v. Court of Appeals (1990)
Most recently applied in Petersen v. Franklin County (May 1997)
I.C., § 67-2348, as added by 1982, ch. 232, § 1, p. 613.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.