2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 4b-55. (Formerly Sec. 4-134a). State Construction Services Selection Panel; Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority Construction Services Panel. Definitions.

      Sec. 4b-55. (Formerly Sec. 4-134a). State Construction Services Selection Panel; Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority Construction Services Panel. Definitions. As used in this section, section 4b-1 and sections 4b-56 to 4b-59, inclusive, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

      (a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Public Works;

      (b) "Consultant" means (1) any architect, professional engineer, landscape architect, land surveyor, accountant, interior designer, environmental professional or construction administrator, who is registered or licensed to practice such person's profession in accordance with the applicable provisions of the general statutes, or (2) any planner or financial specialist;

      (c) "Consultant services" shall include those professional services rendered by architects, professional engineers, landscape architects, land surveyors, accountants, interior designers, environmental professionals, construction administrators, planners or financial specialists, as well as incidental services that members of these professions and those in their employ are authorized to perform;

      (d) "University of Connecticut library project" means a project to renovate and improve the Homer Babbidge Library at The University of Connecticut;

      (e) "Firm" means any individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, association or other legal entity (1) authorized by law to practice the profession of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, land surveying, accounting, interior design, environmental or construction administration, or (2) practicing the profession of planning or financial specialization;

      (f) "Priority higher education facility project" means any project which is part of a state program to repair, renovate, enlarge, equip, purchase or construct (1) instructional facilities, (2) academic core facilities, including library, research and laboratory facilities, (3) student residential or related student dining facilities, or (4) utility systems related to such projects, which are or will be operated under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of any constituent unit of the state system of higher education, except The University of Connecticut provided the project is included in the comprehensive facilities master plan of the constituent unit pursuant to section 10a-4a or in the most recent state facility plan of the Office of Policy and Management pursuant to section 4b-23;

      (g) "Project" means any state program requiring consultant services if (1) the cost of such services is estimated to exceed fifty thousand dollars or, in the case of a constituent unit of the state system of higher education, the cost of such services is estimated to exceed three hundred thousand dollars, and (2) the construction costs in connection with such program are estimated to exceed five hundred thousand dollars; or, in the case of a constituent unit of the state system of higher education, other than The University of Connecticut, the construction costs in connection with such program are estimated to exceed two million dollars;

      (h) "Selection panel" or "panel" means the State Construction Services Selection Panel established pursuant to subsection (a) of section 4b-56 or, in the case of a Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority project pursuant to section 10a-186a, means the Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority Construction Services Panel established pursuant to subsection (c) of section 4b-56;

      (i) "User agency" means the state department or agency requesting the project;

      (j) "Community court project" means (1) any project to renovate and improve a facility designated for the community court pilot program established pursuant to section 51-181c, and (2) the renovation and improvement of other state facilities required for the relocation of any state agency resulting from the placement of the community court;

      (k) "Connecticut Juvenile Training School project" means a project (1) to develop on a designated site new facilities for a Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown including, but not limited to, preparing a feasibility study for, designing, constructing, reconstructing, improving or equipping said facility for use by the Department of Children and Families, which is an emergency project because there is an immediate need for completion of said project to remedy overcrowding at Long Lane School; said school shall have an annual average daily population of not more than two hundred forty residents; or (2) to develop a separate facility for girls including, but not limited to, acquiring of land or buildings, designing, constructing, reconstructing, improving or equipping said facility for use by the Department of Children and Families;

      (l) "Downtown Hartford higher education center project" means a project to develop a higher education center, as defined in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (2) of section 32-600, and as described in subsection (a) of section 32-612, for the regional community-technical college system;

      (m) "Correctional facility project" means any project (1) which is part of a state program to repair, renovate, enlarge or construct facilities which are or will be operated by the Department of Correction, and (2) for which there is an immediate need for completion in order to remedy prison and jail overcrowding; and

      (n) "Juvenile detention center project" means any project (1) which is part of a state program to repair, renovate, enlarge or construct juvenile detention centers which are or will be operated by the Judicial Department, and (2) for which there is an immediate need for completion in order to remedy overcrowding.

      (P.A. 79-450, S. 1, 8; P.A. 82-369, S. 18, 28; P.A. 85-567, S. 3, 6; P.A. 87-496, S. 38, 110; 87-529, S. 4; P.A. 88-117, S. 4, 5; P.A. 89-353, S. 1, 8; P.A. 90-261, S. 1, 19; P.A. 91-230, S. 1, 17; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-9, S. 6, 10; P.A. 92-228, S. 4, 9; P.A. 93-201, S. 6, 24; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2, S. 3, 203; P.A. 95-152, S. 1; 95-230, S. 37, 45; P.A. 96-235, S. 5, 19; P.A. 97-293, S. 11, 26; P.A. 98-21, S. 2; 98-59, S. 2, 3; 98-235, S. 4; P.A. 99-26, S. 2, 39; 99-75, S. 6; 99-241, S. 48, 66; P.A. 00-192, S. 15, 102; P.A. 01-26, S. 4; 01-172, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-7, S. 15, 28; P.A. 03-215, S. 11.)

      History: P.A. 82-369 redefined "project" by increasing the estimated cost of design professional services from ten thousand dollars to twenty-five thousand dollars; P.A. 85-567 amended definition of "project", increasing dollar amount for construction costs from one hundred thousand to two hundred fifty thousand dollars; P.A. 87-496 redefined "commissioner" as public works rather than administrative services commissioner; P.A. 87-529 redefined "project" by increasing dollar amount for construction costs in the case of a constituent unit of the state system of higher education from two hundred fifty thousand to five hundred thousand dollars; P.A. 88-117 amended Subdiv. (1) of Subsec. (e) to provide an exception for constituent units, of the state system of higher education; Sec. 4-134a transferred to Sec. 4b-55 in 1989; P.A. 89-353 added definition of "emergency correctional facility project" and relettered former Subsecs. (d) to (g), inclusive; P.A. 90-261 amended the definition of "emergency correctional facility project" to change the deadline for the commencement of the project from June 30, 1990, to December 31, 1991, and to increase the maximum estimated construction cost from twelve million to twenty million dollars; P.A. 91-230 inserted definition of "priority higher education facility project" as Subsec. (f), relettering former Subsecs. accordingly and in Subsec. (g) changed fifty thousand to one hundred fifty thousand dollars in Subdiv. (1), and five hundred thousand to one million dollars in Subdiv. (2); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-9 amended Subdiv. (2) of Subsec. (d) to substitute December 31, 1993, for December 31, 1991; P.A. 92-228 amended Subsec. (h) to change name of panel from "design professional services selection panel" to "state construction services selection panel"; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (g) defining "project" to increase the limits for a constituent unit from "one hundred fifty" to "three hundred" thousand dollars for design services and from "one" to "two" million dollars for construction costs for higher education projects, effective July 1, 1993; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2 added definition of "University of Connecticut library project" and relettered former Subsecs. (f) to (j), inclusive, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-152 amended Subsec. (d) to delete in Subdiv. (1) the provision that the immediate need for completion of such facility project "has been certified by the advisory commission pursuant to section 18-87f", reflecting the repeal of said section by the same public act; P.A. 95-230 amended Subsecs. (g) and (h) to add exception for The University of Connecticut, effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 96-235 amended Subsec. (b) by changing defined term from "design professional" to "consultant" and including registered or licensed accountants, interior designers, environmental professionals and construction administrators and any planner, construction manager or financial specialist in such definition, amended Subsec. (c) by changing defined term from "design professional services" to "consultant services" and including services rendered by accountants, interior designers, environmental professionals, construction administrators, planners, construction managers and financial specialists in such definition, amended Subsec. (f) by adding entities authorized by law to practice profession of accounting, interior design, environmental or construction administration or practicing profession of planning, construction management or financial specialization to definition of "firm" and amended Subsec. (h) by substituting "consultant services" for "design professionals", effective June 6, 1996; P.A. 97-293 redefined "selection panel" or "panel" to include the Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority Construction Services Panel, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-21 added Subsec. (k) defining "community court project"; P.A. 98-59 changed effective date of P.A. 98-21 from October 1, 1998, to April 13, 1998; P.A. 98-235 deleted reference to Sec. 4b-23(i) in introductory text and amended Subsec. (h), defining "project", by substituting "fifty thousand dollars" for "twenty-five thousand dollars" in Subdiv. (1) and "four hundred thousand dollars" for "two hundred fifty thousand dollars" in Subdiv. (2); P.A. 99-26 added Subsec. (l), designated by the Revisors as Subsec. (k) defining the "Connecticut Juvenile Training School project" and made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, effective May 7, 1999; P.A. 99-75 repealed Subsec. (d) which defined "Emergency correctional facility project", relettered former Subsecs. (e) to (k), inclusive, accordingly and substituted "five hundred thousand dollars" for "four hundred thousand dollars" in relettered Subsec. (g), defining "project"; P.A. 99-241 made a technical change in Subsec. (b) for purposes of gender neutrality and added new Subsec. (l) re downtown Hartford higher education center, effective June 28, 1999; P.A. 00-192 added Subsecs. (m) and (n) defining "correctional facility project" and "juvenile detention center project", effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 01-26 made a technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 01-172 amended Subsec. (g) to substitute "and" for "or" between Subdivs. (1) and (2); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-7 amended Subsec. (k) to make technical changes and include in the definition of "Connecticut Juvenile Training School" a provision for a separate facility for girls, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-215 redefined "consultant", "consultant services" and "firm" by deleting references to "construction managers" and "construction management", effective October 1, 2004.