State Authority Contracts

Margiotti, Attorney General,

We have your request for an opinion, whether the board of The General State Authority may delegate to its executive committee, or a quorum thereof, the power and duty to *452award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder for projects of the authority. You state that under the bylaws of the authority the executive committee consists of five members, appointed by its president, and that some time ago the board of the authority adopted a resolution conferring upon its executive committee the power to award contracts for the projects of the authority, and directing that…