Bill Text: NY A04327 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A04327 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04327-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4327

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, STECK, PALMESANO, FRIEND, FITZPATRICK,
          HAWLEY, J. M. GIGLIO -- 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:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 7209 of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3.  No county, city, town or village or other political subdivision of
     4  this state shall engage in the construction or maintenance of any public
     5  work involving engineering or land surveying for which plans, specifica-
     6  tions and estimates have not been made  by,  and  the  construction  and
     7  maintenance  supervised  by,  a  professional engineer or land surveyor;
     8  provided that this section shall not apply to the construction, improve-
     9  ment or maintenance of county roads or town highways, nor to  any  other
    10  public  works  wherein  the  contemplated  expenditure for the completed
    11  project does not exceed [five]  fifty  thousand  dollars.  This  section
    12  shall not be construed as affecting or preventing any county, city, town
    13  or village or other political subdivision of this state from engaging an
    14  architect  licensed in this state for the preparation of plans, specifi-
    15  cations and estimates for and the supervision of construction or mainte-
    16  nance of public works.
    17    § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 7 of section  7209  of  the  education
    18  law,  as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
    19  follows:
    20    b. To alterations to any building or  structure  costing  [ten]  fifty
    21  thousand  dollars  or  less  which  do not involve changes affecting the
    22  structural safety or  public  safety  thereof  nor  to  farm  buildings,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  including barns, sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly
     2  and  solely  for  agricultural  purposes;  nor to residence buildings of
     3  gross floor area of fifteen hundred square feet or less,  not  including
     4  garages,  carports,  porches,  cellars,  or  uninhabitable  basements or
     5  attics.
     6    § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 7307 of the education law, as  added  by
     7  chapter  987  of the laws of 1971, paragraph 1 as amended by chapter 994
     8  of the laws of 1971 and paragraph 2 as amended by  chapter  591  of  the
     9  laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
    10    5. This article shall not apply to:  [1.] a. Farm buildings, including
    11  barns, sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly and sole-
    12  ly  for  agricultural purposes; nor to residence buildings of gross area
    13  of fifteen hundred square feet or less, not including garages, carports,
    14  porches, cellars, or uninhabitable basements or attics; or
    15    [2.] b. Alterations, costing ten thousand  dollars  or  less,  to  any
    16  building  or  structure  within  the city of New York and [twenty] fifty
    17  thousand dollars or less, to any building or structure outside the  city
    18  of New York which do not involve changes affecting the structural safety
    19  or public safety thereof.
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.