Joseph J. Hock, Inc. v. Baltimore Contractors, Inc.

Chapter 10 of the Laws of 1959 repealed and re-enacted Maryland Code (1957) Art. 90, § 11 (the Act) which requires principal contractors to provide performance and payment bonds on all contracts for public work which exceed $5,000 in amount in order to protect subcontractors and materialmen.

Subsection (c) of the Act permits persons who have furnished labor and material to sue on the payment bond if they have not been paid within 90 days after the last labor was done or the last material furnished.

Subsection (d) provides that “* * * no such suit shall be commenced after the term of one year…