(a) Upon the making of the preliminary assessments, the authority shall prepare contracts and shall contract on a competitively bid basis for the acquisition, construction, or installation of all projects as specified in the petition.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-71-7
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Because authority infrastructure projects are paid from assessments of members of the authority, no public funds may be utilized and projects shall be exempt from state bidding law, but projects should be competitively bid.(c) The authority may not contract for and commence the acquisition, construction, or installation of one or more projects or a portion of one or more projects in advance of a preliminary or final assessment being collected.
