2006 New York Code - Separate Specifications For Certain Public Work.

 
    §  101.  Separate  specifications  for certain public work.   1. Every
  officer, board or agency of a political subdivision or of  any  district
  therein,  charged  with the duty of preparing specifications or awarding
  or   entering   into   contracts   for   the   erection,   construction,
  reconstruction  or alteration of buildings, when the entire cost of such
  work  shall  exceed  fifty  thousand  dollars,  shall  prepare  separate
  specifications  for  the  following three subdivisions of the work to be
  performed:
    a. Plumbing and gas fitting;
    b. Steam heating, hot water heating, ventilating and air  conditioning
  apparatus; and
    c. Electric wiring and standard illuminating fixtures.
    2.  Such  specifications  shall  be drawn so as to permit separate and
  independent bidding upon each of the above three subdivisions  of  work.
  All  contracts  awarded  by  any political subdivision or by an officer,
  board or agency thereof, or of any district therein, for  the  erection,
  construction,  reconstruction  or  alteration  of buildings, or any part
  thereof, shall award the three subdivisions of the above specified  work
  separately  in  the manner provided by section one hundred three of this
  chapter. Nothing in this section  shall  be  construed  to  prevent  any
  political  subdivision  from  performing any such branches of work by or
  through their regular employees, or in the case of public  institutions,
  by the inmates thereof.
    3. In the county of Erie, specifications for public work pertaining to
  the  construction  of  a  county  stadium  may provide for assignment of
  responsibility for supervision and coordination of any of the  contracts
  for  such  work  to  a  single  responsible and reliable person, firm or
  corporation.
    4. In the county of Albany, specifications for work pertaining to  the
  construction   of   a   civic  center  may  provide  for  assignment  of
  responsibility for supervision and coordination of any  or  all  of  the
  contracts  for  such  work  to a single responsible and reliable person,
  firm or corporation.