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PUBLIC LAW 86-682-SEPT. 2, 1960

motor vehicles must be especially designed and equipped for the distribution of mail en route and be constructed, fitted up, maintained, and operated as the Postmaster General prescribes. § 6352. Highway post office contracts (a) The Postmaster General shall obtain contracts for highway post office service in accordance with section 5 of title 41, for terms not in excess of six years. (b) The Postmaster General in contracts for highway post office service may provide for— (1) increasing or decreasing the mileage; ^2^ increasing or decreasing the hours of service required; (3) other service changes; (4) the readjustment and compensation either upward or downward to reflect the service changes and increased or decreased costs attributable to changed conditions occurring during the contract term over which the Postmaster General or the contractor have no control and which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time the original bid was made or the proposal for renewal filed; (5) the imposition or remission of fines and penalties by the Postmaster General for delinquencies in the performance of the contract; and (6) other matters deemed appropriate by him. (c) Each contract shall provide for its cancellation by the Postmaster General and may provide for an indemnity payment by the Postmaster General in the event of such a cancellation. § 6353. Renewal of contracts for highway post office service (a) The Postmaster General, by mutual agreement with the holder of a contract for highway post omce service and without submitting the service for bids, may renew the contract for successive periods of not more than six years at the rates of compensation prevailing at the end of the preceding contract term. (b) The Postmaster General may enter into a contract with the subcontractor then performing the service, in the same manner and upon the same terms as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section if— (1) the holder of the contract has sublet his contract in accordance with its terms and does not indicate in writing to the Postmaster General at least ninety days before the end of the contract term that he desires to renew the contract, and (2) the subcontractor has performed the service required under the contract to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General for a period of at least six months. § 6354. Temporary contracts for highway post office service Where there is no contractor legally bound or required to perform the service desired by the Postmaster General, or when an accepted bidder or contractor fails or refuses to perform the service on a route according to his accepted proposal or his contract, the Postmaster General, without advertising, may contract for the service desired or continue the service originally contracted for in such manner and in such equipment as he deems to be in the public interest for a term not in excess of one year. § 6355. Bonds for highway post office contract The Postmaster General may require such bonds as he deems necessary to protect the interests of the Government in the form and amount and containing such conditions as he prescribes.

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