(1972)

ALEX J. RAINERI, District Attorney, Iron County

You request my opinion whether Iron County has legal authority to enter into contracts with private persons for the performance of work such as furnishing and spreading of gravel and blacktop, or furnishing trailering services for heavy equipment on private roads or driveways.

I am of the opinion that the county is without such power.

Present statutes do not permit either the county board or the county highway committee to exercise such power.

Counties have only such powers as are expressly granted by statute or necessarily implied.

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