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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 28-55 All contracts – Payments to subcontractors.">
  <section prefix="§" num="28-55" heading="All contracts – Payments to subcontractors.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">A contractor must pay its subcontractors in a timely fashion for satisfactory work.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="When payment considered timely.">A payment is timely if it is mailed, delivered, or transferred to a subcontractor no later than 7 calendar days after the contractor receives payment from the City.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Evidence of compliance.">Beginning with the second pay request from a contractor to the City, the contractor must provide the City with evidence that all subcontractors have been paid out of the proceeds of the prior payment, unless a bona fide dispute, documented in writing, exists between the contractor and the unpaid subcontractor.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 00-098</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-606</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
