Opinion No. (1979)

Dear Honorable Luton,

The Attorney General has considered your request for an opinion wherein you ask the following questions:

1) May a municipality bid and let a single contract for theconstruction of sanitary sewers in more than one sewer district? 2) If such combination is permissible, are assessments to be basedon the cost of constructing the sewers in all the districts, or onthe cost to construct sewers in each separate district, and if thelatter, in what manner is the assessment to be made? 3) May a Municipal Authority make payments directly to the contractorduring the construction of the…