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                                    841
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GUNTHER, SKARTADOS, STECK, PALMESANO, FRIEND,
   MONTESANO, CROUCH, WALTER, HAWLEY, GIGLIO, FITZPATRICK --  Multi-Spon-
   sored  by -- M.  of A. BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH, 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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 structural  safety  or  public  safety  thereof  nor  to farm buildings,
 including barns, sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly
 and solely for agricultural purposes;  nor  to  residence  buildings  of
 gross  floor  area of fifteen hundred square feet or less, not including
 garages, carports,  porches,  cellars,  or  uninhabitable  basements  or
 attics.
   §  3.  Subdivision 5 of section 7307 of the education law, as added by
 chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, paragraph 1 as amended by  chapter  994
 of  the  laws  of  1971 and paragraph 2 as amended by chapter 591 of the
 laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
   5. This article shall not apply to:  [1.] A. Farm buildings, including
 barns, sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly and sole-
 ly for agricultural purposes; nor to residence buildings of  gross  area
 of fifteen hundred square feet or less, not including garages, carports,
 porches, cellars, or uninhabitable basements or attics; or
   [2.]  B.  Alterations,  costing  ten  thousand dollars or less, to any
 building or structure within the city of New  York  and  [twenty]  FIFTY
 thousand  dollars or less, to any building or structure outside the city
 of New York which do not involve changes affecting the structural safety
 or public safety thereof.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.