2006 Ohio Revised Code - 153.01. Architect must submit accurate plans, estimates, bills of materials, and details to scale.

§ 153.01. Architect must submit accurate plans, estimates, bills of materials, and details to scale.
 

Whenever any building or structure for the use of the state or any institution supported in whole or in part by the state or in or upon the public works of the state that is administered by the director of administrative services or by any other state officer or state agency authorized by law to administer a project, including an educational institution listed in section 3345.50 of the Revised Code, is to be erected or constructed, whenever additions, alterations, or structural or other improvements are to be made, or whenever heating, cooling, or ventilating plants or other equipment is to be installed or material supplied therefor, the aggregate cost of which amounts to fifty thousand dollars or more, each officer, board, or other authority upon which devolves the duty of constructing, erecting, altering, or installing the same, referred to in sections 153.01 to 153.60 of the Revised Code as the owner, shall cause to be made, by an architect or engineer whose contract of employment shall be prepared and approved by the attorney general, the following: 

(A) Full and accurate plans, suitable for the use of mechanics and other builders in the construction, improvement, addition, alteration, or installation; 

(B) Details to scale and full-sized, so drawn and represented as to be easily understood; 

(C) Accurate bills showing the exact quantity of different kinds of material necessary to the construction; 

(D) Definite and complete specifications of the work to be performed, together with directions that will enable a competent mechanic or other builder to carry them out and afford bidders all needful information; 

(E) A full and accurate estimate of each item of expense and the aggregate cost of those items of expense; 

(F) A life-cycle cost analysis; 

(G) Further data as may be required by the department of administrative services. 
 

HISTORY: RS § 782; S&S 637; 70 v 102; GC § 2314; 107 v 453; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 135 v S 174 (Eff 12-4-73); 137 v H 419 (Eff 8-7-78); 141 v H 201 (Eff 7-1-85); 147 v H 850 (Eff 3-18-99); 148 v H 640. Eff 9-14-2000.
 

The effective date is set by section 79 of HB 640.