The district or sub-district governing authority may prepare the plans and specifications and adopt a resolution or ordinance to advertise for bids after giving notice of its intention and deciding to build the improvement.
§3966. Plans and specifications; advertisement for bids; publication The governing authority of such district or sub-district, after having given notice of its intention as above set forth and after having decided to order the construction of such improvement, may without further delay have the necessary plans and specifications for said work prepared and adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing the advertisement for bids therefor by the giving of notice calling for sealed bids for the construction of said work, such notice to be signed by the governing authority and approved by the governing authority of the municipality in which said district or sub-district is located and shall be published for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper in the district or sub-district, and if there be none published therein, then in some newspaper of general circulation in the parish wherein the district or sub-district is located. Such notice shall contain a general description of the work contemplated, which refers to the plans and specifications which shall be placed on file with the clerk or secretary of the said governing authority of the municipality in which said sewerage district or sub-district is located, and shall designate the hour, date and place for the reception and opening of bids and may provide that the contractor be required to accept the indebtedness of the property owners within the district flowing from the lien hereinafter provided for or the notes issued by said property owners as hereinafter provided for, or the municipality may issue its own notes payable solely by pledge of the funds derived from the square foot assessment notes of the property owners and the monthly sewerage charges hereinafter provided for, or either of them. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §6.