CHAPTER 313

H.P. 1173 - L.D. 1662

An Act To Amend the Law Governing the Department of

Transportation's Contracting Authority

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §1741, as amended by PL 1985, c. 130, is further amended to read:

§1741. Definitions

Whenever the words "public improvement" or "public improvements" shall appear in chapters 141 to 155, they shall be held to those words mean and include the construction, major alteration or repair of buildings or public works now owned or leased or hereafter constructed, acquired or leased by the State of Maine or any department, officer, board, commission or agency thereof of the State, or constructed, acquired or leased, in whole or in part with state funds, and including the construction, major alteration or repair of school buildings, in excess of $25,000, by any school administrative unit and for which state school construction aid is to be paid, provided except that sections 1743 and 1745 shall are not be applicable to construction, major alteration or repair of school buildings. Nothing in this section may apply to the construction, improvement or repair of any and all ways, roads or bridges with appurtenances and other public improvements which This subchapter does not apply to contracts for transportation-related services and contracts for construction and maintenance that, by law, are under the supervision of the Department of Transportation.