Assembly Bill A5282

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Increases to $50,000 the cost of the construction of a building, structure or public work, above which an engineer, land surveyor or architect must be utilized

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A5282 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7209 & 7307, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8257
2011-2012: A5827
2013-2014: A1267
2015-2016: A1017
2017-2018: A841
2019-2020: A3626
2023-2024: A4327

2021-A5282 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases to $50,000 the cost of the construction of a building, structure or public work, above which a professional engineer, land surveyor or architect must be utilized to plan and supervise the construction thereof.

2021-A5282 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5282
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, STECK, PALMESANO, FRIEND, FITZPATRICK,
   MONTESANO, HAWLEY, J. M. GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.
   BLANKENBUSH,  McDONOUGH,  J. RIVERA  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing the thresh-
   old at which  certain  buildings,  structures  and  public  works  are
   required to be planned and supervised by a professional engineer, land
   surveyor or architect
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 7209  of  the  education  law,  as
 added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  No county, city, town or village or other political subdivision of
 this state shall engage in the construction or maintenance of any public
 work involving engineering or land surveying for which plans, specifica-
 tions  and  estimates  have  not  been made by, and the construction and
 maintenance supervised by, a professional  engineer  or  land  surveyor;
 provided that this section shall not apply to the construction, improve-
 ment  or  maintenance of county roads or town highways, nor to any other
 public works wherein the  contemplated  expenditure  for  the  completed
 project  does  not  exceed  [five]  FIFTY thousand dollars. This section
 shall not be construed as affecting or preventing any county, city, town
 or village or other political subdivision of this state from engaging an
 architect licensed in this state for the preparation of plans,  specifi-
 cations and estimates for and the supervision of construction or mainte-
 nance of public works.
   §  2.  Paragraph  b  of subdivision 7 of section 7209 of the education
 law, as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   b.  To  alterations  to  any building or structure costing [ten] FIFTY
 thousand dollars or less which do  not  involve  changes  affecting  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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