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                                   4327
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             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:
 
   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
 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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 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.