2016 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 10 - (450 - 471) NEW YORK CITY EDUCATIONAL CONSTRUCTION FUND
457 - Plans and specifications.

 457. Plans  and  specifications.    1.  (a)  No  combined  occupancy
  structure shall be acquired,  leased,  erected,  repaired,  enlarged  or
  remodeled  by  the  fund until the detailed plans and specifications and
  cost estimates for the school portion thereof have been submitted to the
  board of education and its approval has been endorsed thereon.
(b)  The  board  of  education  shall  also  review  and  approve  the
  architectural   concept,   including   an   outline  of  the  plans  and
  specifications therefor, of  the  non-school  portion  of  any  combined
  occupancy  structure  to  be erected, repaired, enlarged or remodeled in
  accordance with the provisions of any lease or other  agreement  between
  the fund and any developer.
2.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law applicable to the city
  school district of the city of New York or the board of education of the
  city of New York, such district and such board shall only be required to
  submit an outline  of  the  plans  and  specifications  for  a  combined
  occupancy  structure,  and  for  the  school  portion  thereof,  to  the
  commissioner of education for his information.
3. Every contract, lease or other agreement executed by or  on  behalf
  of  the  fund  which  makes provision for the construction, acquisition,
  reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of the school  portion  of
  any  combined  occupancy  structure  shall  include a provision that the
  architect who  designed  the  facility,  or  an  architect  or  engineer
  retained  specifically  for  the purpose of supervision, shall supervise
  the work to be performed through to completion and shall see to it  that
  the  materials  furnished  are  in  accordance with the drawings, plans,
  specifications and contractual provisions therefor.