RS 3955 - Advertising for bids; awarding contract
When the work has been duly authorized and the plans and specifications approved, the governing authority shall advertise for bids for installing and constructing the system in the same manner provided by law for the letting of public contracts for the municipality, and shall accept any bid and enter into any contract for the installation in the manner provided by law. If the petitioning property owners in their original petition have fixed maximum amounts beyond which the entire cost of the work shall not extend for each lineal front foot, no bid shall be accepted or no contract let which is in excess of that maximum.