2006 Kansas Code - 75-1261

      75-1261.   Construction administration by secretary of administration or agency architect; job representatives, employment, qualifications and duties. (a) If a contract to provide construction administration services as described in K.S.A. 75-1260, and amendments thereto, is not entered into, such construction administration services shall be the responsibility of the secretary of administration or the agency architect for the project as provided in K.S.A. 75-1254, and amendments thereto.

      (b)   Whenever the secretary of administration or the agency architect for the project, as the case may be, assumes responsibility for such services regarding any contract which is let for a project for the construction of a building or for major repairs or improvements to a building for a state agency, and the total price for such project exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), the secretary of administration or, where there is an agency architect for the project, the state agency for which the project is being constructed, shall employ a job representative for such project. The compensation of a job representative employed under this subsection shall be paid from: (1) The same fund or appropriation as the cost of the project for which he or she is job representative, or (2) appropriations for the department of administration and available for such purpose if the job representative is employed by the secretary of administration, or from appropriations available for such purpose made for the state agency which employed such job representative, if such is the case.

      (c)   Whenever the secretary of administration or the agency architect for the project, as the case may be, assumes responsibility for such services regarding any contract which is let for any such project, the total price of which does not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), the secretary of administration or, where there is an agency architect for the project, the state agency for which the project is being constructed, may employ a job representative for such project. The compensation of a job representative employed under this subsection shall be paid from: (1) Funds appropriated for the department of administration and available for such purpose, if the job representative is employed by the secretary of administration, or (2) appropriations available for such purpose made for the state agency which employed the job representative, if such is the case.

      (d)   Each job representative employed pursuant to this section shall be present at the site of such project as directed by the secretary of administration or the agency architect for the project, whichever is responsible for construction administration services for the project, and shall make reports thereto relating to the manner in which the work is being done, the progress thereof, and other matters specified by the secretary of administration or agency architect for the project, as the case may be. Job representatives shall be solely responsible to, and shall perform their duties under the direction and supervision of, the secretary of administration or the state agency for which the project is being constructed, whichever is the employer, in accordance with the inspection standards adopted by the secretary of administration under K.S.A. 75-3783 and amendments thereto. Job representatives shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive compensation fixed by the secretary of administration or the state agency for which the project is being constructed, whichever is the employer and approved by the governor in each case. All job representatives shall meet the standard qualifications for inspection personnel adopted by the secretary of administration under K.S.A. 75-3783 and amendments thereto.

      History:   L. 1974, ch. 376, § 9; L. 1976, ch. 401, § 4; L. 1978, ch. 337, § 22; L. 1979, ch. 280, § 16; May 17.