The phrase "authorities to pay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the power or permission given to authorities to make payments or disburse funds.
Example: "The government has granted the authorities to pay for the necessary resources to combat the crisis."
Alternatives: "officials authorized to pay" or "agencies permitted to pay".
That is forcing local authorities to pay more to place deprived families in properties that used to be council-owned.
Then he persuaded the Spanish authorities to pay him $5 million a year to rent the collection while its final disposition was negotiated.
A court in Peshawar recently ordered authorities to pay compensation to the mother of a man who was abducted and killed, reportedly by Pakistani security agencies.
Google has agreed a deal with British tax authorities to pay £130m in back taxes and bear a greater tax burden in future.
A former resident of Nice, he is being pursued by the authorities to pay taxes on his Tour winnings, which he has divided among his teammates.
Recently, another Russian businessman was forced by Swiss authorities to pay a penalty of 40 million Swiss francs over the purchase of Oerlikon by Renova, a transaction which in the authorities' opinion was accompanied by "considerable infringements" of bureaucratic formalities.
If lawmakers fail to raise the debt limit in time, the federal government won't have the authority to pay for all of the spending that Congress has authorized, and could be forced to default.
A supreme court ruling in 2006 said that the law did not permit judges to compel the local authority to pay for therapy.
If you're nice, I have the authority to pay you three thousand dollars to leave".
But the state has no authority to pay a single cent for the bridge.
Another fiscal deadline is looming, on March 27th, when the government's authority to pay for anything "discretionary" runs out.
