Contractor_Affidavit_Regarding_the_Use_of_Coercion_for_Labor_and_Services.docx

Contractor Affidavit Regarding the Use of Coercion for Labor and Services

Contractor Name: _____________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________ Phone Number: ____________________________________________________________________ Authorized Representative’s Name: ____________________________________________________ Authorized Representative’s Title: _____________________________________________________ Email Address: _____________________________________________________________________ Section 787.06(13), Florida Statutes requires all nongovernmental entities (such as Vendor) executing, renewing, or extending a contract with a governmental entity (such as the School Board of Manatee County, Florida) to provide an affidavit signed by an officer or representative of Vendor under penalty of perjury that Vendor does not use coercion for labor or services as defined in that statute.

As the person authorized to sign on behalf of Vendor, I certify that the company identified above does not:

· Use or threaten to use physical force against any person;

· Restrain, isolate, or confine or threaten to restrain, isolate, or confine any person without lawful authority and against her or his will;

· Use lending or other credit methods to establish a debt by any person when labor or services are pledged as a security for the debt, if the value of the labor or services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt, the length and nature of the labor or services are not respectively limited and defined;

· Destroy, conceal, remove, confiscate, withhold, or possess any actual or purported passport, visa, or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of any person;

· Cause or threaten to cause financial harm to any person;

· Entice or lure any person by fraud or deceit; or

· Provide a controlled substance as outlined in Schedule I or Schedule II of s. 893.03 to any person for the purpose of exploitation of that person.

Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing document and that the facts stated in it are true.

Signature of Contractor’s Authorized Official