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CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH <br />PARKS/IviEDIANS/RIGHT-OF-WAY MAINTENANCE <br />IDENTICAL TIE BIDS - Preference shall be given to businesses with drug -free workplace <br />programs. Whenever two or more bids which are equal with respect to price, quality, and service <br />are received by the State or by any political subdivision for the procurement of commodities or <br />contractual services, a bid received from a business that certifies that it has implemented a drug -free <br />workplace program shall be given preference in the award process. Established procedures for <br />processing tie bids will be followed if none of the tied vendors have a drug -free workplace program. <br />In order to have a drug -free workplace program, a business shall: <br />1) Publish a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, <br />dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the workplace and <br />specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violations of such prohibition. <br />2) Inform employees about the dangers of drug abuse in the workplace, the business's policy <br />of maintaining a drug -free workplace, any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and <br />employee assistance programs, and the penalties that may be imposed upon employees for <br />drug abuse violations. <br />3) Give each employee engaged in providing the commodities or contractual services that are <br />under bid a copy of the statement specified in subsection (1). <br />4) In the statement specified in subsection (1), notify the employees that, as a condition of <br />working on the commodities or contractual services that are under bid, the employee will <br />abide by the terms of the statement and will notify the employer of any conviction of, or plea <br />of guilty or nolo contendere to, any violation of chapter 893 or of any controlled substance <br />law of the United States or any state, for a violation occurring in the workplace no later than <br />five (5) days after such conviction. <br />5) Impose a sanction on, or require the satisfactory participation in a drug abuse assistance or <br />rehabilitation program, if such is available in the employee's community, by any employee <br />who is so convicted. <br />