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22-9-101. Observation by registered professionals required.
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22-9-101. Observation by registered professionals required.
(a) The state or a township, county, municipality, village, or other political subdivision of the state shall not engage in the capital improvement of public works involving engineering or architecture for which the plans, specifications, and estimates have not been made by and the capital improvement executed under the observation of a professional engineer as defined in § 17-30-101 or architect as defined in § 17-15-102, in their respective areas of expertise.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be held to apply to any public works wherein the contemplated capital improvement expenditure:
(1) For an engineering project does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); or
(2) For an architectural project does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(c) This section does not apply to:
(1) A school district, county, municipality, or township project that is planned and executed according to plans and specifications furnished by authorized state agencies; or
(2)(A) The design or construction of an unpaved trail project as defined under § 22-2-102.
(B) The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission shall ensure that an unpaved trail project created under this subdivision (c)(2) meets the standards for observation by registered professionals as established by the Building Authority Division.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 22-9-101
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22-9-101. Observation by registered professionals required.
(a) The state or a township, county, municipality, village, or other political subdivision of the state shall not engage in the capital improvement of public works involving engineering or architecture for which the plans, specifications, and estimates have not been made by and the capital improvement executed under the observation of a professional engineer as defined in § 17-30-101 or architect as defined in § 17-15-102, in their respective areas of expertise.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be held to apply to any public works wherein the contemplated capital improvement expenditure:
(1) For an engineering project does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); or
(2) For an architectural project does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(c) This section does not apply to:
(1) A school district, county, municipality, or township project that is planned and executed according to plans and specifications furnished by authorized state agencies; or
(2)(A) The design or construction of an unpaved trail project as defined under § 22-2-102.
(B) The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission shall ensure that an unpaved trail project created under this subdivision (c)(2) meets the standards for observation by registered professionals as established by the Building Authority Division.
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17-15-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Architect” means a person who is technically and legally qualified to practice architecture;
(2) “Direct supervision” means that degree of supervision by a person overseeing the work of another whereby the supervisor has both control over and detailed professional knowledge of the work prepared under his or her supervision;
(3) [Repealed.]
(4)(A)(i) “Practice of architecture” means the provision of, or offering to provide, services in connection with the design and construction, enlargement, or alteration of a building or group of buildings, and the space within and surrounding such buildings, which is designed for human occupancy or habitation.
(ii) The services include:
(a) Planning;
(b) Providing preliminary studies, designs, drawings, specifications, and other technical submissions; and
(c) Administration of construction contracts.
(B) “Practice of architecture” does not include the practice of engineering as defined in the Arkansas Engineering Act, § 17-30-101 et seq., or the practice of contracting as defined in the Contractors Licensing Law, § 17-25-101 et seq., but a registered architect may perform such engineering work as is incidental to the practice of architecture, and an engineer may practice such architectural work as is incidental to the practice of engineering.
(C) The provisions of this chapter affirm the legal authority of an engineer licensed under the Arkansas Engineering Act, § 17-30-101 et seq., to provide consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, and design of buildings intended for the accommodation of equipment, vehicles, goods, or processes or other utilitarian function, with human occupancy including office space as requi
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-15-102
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17-30-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Consulting engineer” means a professional engineer whose principal occupation is the independent practice of engineering, whose livelihood is obtained by offering engineering services to the public, who serves clients as an independent fiduciary, who is devoid of public, commercial, and product affiliation that might tend to infer a conflict of interest, and who is aware of his or her public and legal responsibilities and is capable of discharging them;
(2) “Engineer-intern” means a person who under this chapter has:
(A) Qualified for an examination authorized by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors in fundamental engineering subjects; and
(B) Passed the examination;
(3)(A) “Firm” means a form of business entity that offers professional engineering services of its licensed personnel to the public.
(B) “Firm” does not include an individual licensee operating under his or her name;
(4)(A) “Practice of engineering” means a service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge in the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to services or creative work such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, and design of engineering works and systems relating to the use of air, land, water, municipal and regional planning, forensic services, engineering teaching of advanced engineering subjects or related courses, engineering surveys, and the inspection of construction to assure compliance with drawings and specifications that are related to public or private service or work, concerning any utilities, structures, buildings, machines, equipment, proc
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-30-101
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-30-101. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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22-2-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1)(A) “Capital improvement” means all lands, buildings, structures, utilities, on-site and off-site improvements, other appertaining improvements, existing or future, and all construction, repairs, alterations, demolitions, and renovations thereof which are undertaken, owned, operated, or otherwise managed by a state agency.
(B) Except that “capital improvement” shall not include construction and reconstruction of roads and bridges in the state highway system by the State Highway Commission, nor shall the term “capital improvement” include any building, facility, plant, structure, or other improvement constructed by or on behalf of the Arkansas Department of Transportation or the State Highway Commission, nor shall the term “capital improvement” include any lands, buildings, or other structures or facilities now owned or hereafter acquired by an Arkansas state retirement system as an investment or as a result of the investment of assets of the system;
(2) “Minimum standards and criteria” and other like phrases mean those standards and criteria relating to construction, design, maintenance, and leasing of state agencies' capital improvements as adopted by the Building Authority Division after appropriate public hearings and notice to the public and interested persons and organizations;
(3) “State agency” means any board or commission, agency, department, institution of higher education, including colleges, universities, and vocational-technical schools, or other state institutions. However, “state agency” shall not include any county, municipality, school district, subdivision, or unit thereof of the State of Arkansas, nor shall the term “state agency” mean or include the Arkansas Department of Transportation or t
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 22-2-102
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 22-2-102. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.