KRS 98.110: Awarding of contracts -- Commission may do part of work.

All work done or supplies or materials purchased in carrying out the purposes of KRS

98.040 to 98.170, when involving an expenditure of five hundred dollars ($500) or more,

shall be by contract awarded to the lowest and best bidder. All bids or parts of bi ds for

any such work or supplies may be rejected by the commission. Any commission may,

with the consent of four (4) of its members, do any part of its work by day labor under

such conditions as it may prescribe, when such procedure is recommended in writi ng by

the superintendent of construction.