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Title 29 : Public Property and Supplies
Chapter 002 : Art in State Buildings
(Cite as: 29 V.S.A. § 42)-
§ 42. Definitions [Repealed]
(Added 1987, No. 267 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1997, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 48, eff. April 29, 1998; repealed by 2023, No. 50, § 1, eff. June 6, 2023.)
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§ 42. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Addition” means any new construction that increases the height or floor area of an existing building or facility.
(2) “Art selection panel” means a Council-appointed group of individuals consisting of the Department of Buildings and General Services project manager, the project architect, a representative or representatives from the occupant agency or agencies, the community, and arts professionals who forward recommendations of artwork to the Advisory Committee for final approval.
(3) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Buildings and General Services.
(4) “Contracting agency” means the administrative unit of State government responsible for securing the preparation of plans and specifications of a State building or facility for the purpose of negotiating or advertising for bids for the construction of such building or facility.
(5) “Council” means the Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc.
(6) “Mixed media” means any combination of two or more types of materials used to create a single work of art in two or three dimensions.
(7) “Occupant agency” means that public entity that has or will have principal authority to use or occupy a public building.
(8) “Project cost” means the budgeted cost of a construction or renovation project, which may include an addition, excluding the cost of design and of land acquisition or land improvement.
(9) “Project site” means any State building or facility undergoing new construction or renovation, which may include an addition, with a total project cost of $1,000,000.00 or more that is funded from an appropriation or appropriations in one or more capital construction act and has been recommended for consideration by the Commissioner pursuant to this chapter.
(10) “State building or facility” means any State building, facility, permanent structure, park, or appurtenant structure thereof, wholly or partially enclosed, owned or leased by State government, that is to be constructed or renovated, which may include an addition, in part or totally with funds from any appropriation from the capital construction act. The term does not include highways, airport runways, or taxi ways, hangars, railroad tracks, sidings or yards, garages, sheds, warehouses, heating plants, sewers, parking lots, bridges, highway garages, or buildings used for storage or that are of a temporary nature. The term does not include buildings or facilities owned by units of local government, including school districts.
(11) “Work of art” means an original creation of visual art in sculpture, paintings, graphic arts, mosaics, photography, crafts, calligraphy, mixed media, or any other creation that the Advisory Committee deems a visual art. Works of art may be attached to the structure of a State building or facility or may be detached within or outside the structure. (Added 2023, No. 50, § 2, eff. June 6, 2023.)
