(1974)

DAVID B. DEDA, District Attorney, Price County

You have requested my opinion on the question of whether the county highway department may charge towns a fee of one percent of project cost to cover administrative costs of road work performed by the county for the town.

As I understand it, the Price County Highway Committee established the one percent charge in 1961. It was apparently patterned after the one percent fee the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, pays counties to compensate for the administrative costs generated when counties do work on state highways.

It is my opinion…