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Friday, May 18, 2012

Paint-Damaged Vehicles Results in Ocean City Lawsuit

The mayor and City Council of Ocean City filed a lawsuit last week asking the court to declare work order contracts involving the cleanup of paintdamaged vehicles to be null and void.

Ocean City hired D&M Painting Corp. of Washington, Pa., to paint the water storage tank at 64th Street. During the paint job, droplets of paint landed on several vehicles owned by the town and some of its employees. The paint damaged windows and other vehicle parts, according to the lawsuit filed May 9 in Circuit Court in Snow Hill.

Because of the damage, D&M hired Overspray Removal Specialists of Sarasota, Fla., to remove the paint and clean the damaged vehicles. Employees of Overspray Removal Specialists came to Ocean City to do the work, but required that work orders be signed before actually commencing that work.

An unnamed, but unauthorized employee of the Ocean City Public Works Department and the individual employees whose personal vehicles were affected signed the work orders.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"An unnamed, but unauthorized employee of the Ocean City Public Works Department and the individual employees whose personal vehicles were affected signed the work orders."

Who else would sign the work orders? There IS no town manager. Do you think that Joe Hall made a 13 minute phone call?

Anonymous said...

We should only be hiring Maryland based companies for these jobs.

Anonymous said...

7:21 That's exactly the thought I went away with after reading this article.