N.J. Stat. tit. 30, ch. 3

N.J. Stat. tit. 30, ch. 3
in effect

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-4 State institutional construction fund; bond issue

L.1930, c. 227, p. 1015, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a debt of the state of New Jersey by the issuance of bonds of the state in the sum of ten million dollars for state institutions; providing for the ways and means to pay the interest of said debt and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof; and providing for the submission of this law to the people at a general election," approved April eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, as amended by L.1935, c. 215, p. 509, saved from repeal. [This act permits the issuance of bonds in the sum of ten million dollars; limits the bonds issued in any one year to three million dollars; bonds are to be issued from time to time as money is required by certification of the state board to the state house commission; principal and interest are exempt from taxation; the state house commission shall determine all questions in connection with bond issues; other provisions are made for rate of interest, temporary bonds or certificates; separate series, registration, maturity, payment, dedication of proceeds, appropriation of necessary funds from receipts of tax on motor vehicle fuels, and levy of general tax to meet deficiency.]

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-5 Order of precedence in expenditures

L.1930, c. 202, s.s. 2, 6, 7, pp. 959, 961, 962, entitled "An act to provide for the taxation of real and personal property in this state for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing, reconstructing, development, extending and equipping state charitable, hospital, relief, training, correctional, reformatory and penal institutions and appurtenances thereto," approved April eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, saved from repeal. [These sections provide that the construction fund created by L.1930, c. 227, p. 1015 (saved from repeal by section 30:3-4 of this title), shall be expended in the order of precedence enumerated; that the comptroller may correct items; and that the state house commission, the custodian of the fund, may authorize the transfer of parts of items to other items on application of the state board.]

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-6 Expenditures; further appropriation

L.1933, c. 377, p. 1061, entitled "An act making appropriations for construction purposes," approved September fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, saved from repeal. [This act for the purpose of further carrying into effect L.1930, c. 227, p. 1015 (saved from repeal by section 30:3-4 of this title), appropriates various amounts for enumerated improvements; permits the comptroller of the treasury to correct items; and permits the state house commission on application of the state board to authorize the transfer of parts of items to other items.]

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-7 Powers of state board as to building operations; architectural treatment; plans and specifications

The state board, except as hereinafter provided, shall exercise all the powers and perform all of the duties heretofore vested in or imposed upon the state architect or the state department of architecture, by whatever name known, and shall, through the commissioner and other appropriate board, division, commission or bureau of the department, conduct all state institutional building operations and all constructive work allied thereto, except for the state board of education. It shall at all times render assistance to all other state departments, except the state board of education, in determining the designs, location and arrangements of all public works and of all of their approaches and appurtenances calling for architectural treatment and the services of engineers, and shall approve the design of all such features thereof as are susceptible of architectural treatment. No payment shall be made on any contract for work done for the state except for the state board of education or any division thereof requiring architectural treatment except upon the certificate of the commissioner addressed to the comptroller, setting forth that the drawings and specifications have been complied with, which certificate shall be indorsed by the state board and by the board or body to which the appropriation was made. All specifications and contract drawings made for the commissioner, as hereinafter provided, shall be signed by the technical assistant responsible to the commissioner for their preparation and shall be approved by him, by the state board and by the commission, board or body to which the appropriation was made. When so signed and approved no other body shall have power to modify or change such specifications or drawings except that the commissioner may at any time during the progress of the work, with the approval of the state board and of the commission, board or other body, make necessary additions thereto or deviations from the amount thereof, provided that the sum appropriated for such work is not thereby exceeded, unless the state house commission shall have made an emergency appropriation to supplement the appropriation made therefor.

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-8 Drawings, specifications and building contracts; technical disputes; technical advisers, architects, engineers, etc.

Subject to the supervision and ultimate authority of the state board, the commissioner shall cause to be prepared all drawings, specifications and building contracts, determine the kind and quality of materials to be employed, interpret the meaning of drawings and specifications and adjudicate technical disputes between the state and its contractors, except as herein otherwise provided. Within the appropriation provided for any board, division, committee or commission of the department of institutions and agencies and with the approval of the state board, he may employ such technical advisers as the work of his office necessitates and with the approval of the state board and of the state house commission, he may pay for the services of architects, engineers and other technical assistants employed to prepare plans, specifications and drawings and for their superintendence from the appropriations for the building or buildings or public work they are retained to plan, design or supervise, at a rate which shall not be in excess of the schedule of minimum charges adopted by the American Institute of Architects, or by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, or by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Institutional boards of managers or other agents or agencies of the state in charge of institutions, departments, divisions or commissions except the state board of education, for which appropriations have been made may nominate to the state board architects, engineers or other technical assistants whom they may recommend that the commissioner with the approval of the state board and of the state house commission, shall employ and the commissioner may consider these nominations in making recommendations for the employment of such assistants. The commissioner shall cause to be prepared a map or plan of each institution, showing the layout of buildings, heating, lighting and power plants, water and sewage disposal works and all other approaches and appurtenances of each such institution.

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-9 Architects selected by competition; jury on designs

The commissioner may with the approval of the state board, at a time to be fixed by it, select by competition from among the architects legally registered in the state, an architect to design any specific building or structure. The designs of the competitors shall be judged by a jury of three disinterested architects, one selected by the state board, one by the competitors and the third by the two so chosen. Should the jury discover among the competitors any whose designs indicate an ability to solve the problems acceptably, it shall certify its first choice to the commissioner who shall appoint him as associate of the chief of the division of architecture and construction to design the specific building or structure.

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-10 Award of contracts; proposals; advertising

After plans and specifications have been approved, as provided in section 30:3-7 of this title, all advertising incidental to awarding building or construction contracts shall be placed by the commissioner and paid for by the commission, board or body to which appropriation was made for the work. All proposals shall be received, opened and read at the commissioner's office in the presence of the commission, board or body to which appropriation was made for the work, and the commissioner within fourteen days thereafter shall, with the approval of the state board, make the award.

N.J. Stat. § 30:3-11 Preparation of plans and award of contracts before appropriations available; expense; construction expenses

Whenever and after any appropriation is made for constructing, reconstructing, developing, extending or equipping any state institution or its appurtenances within the jurisdiction of the state board, such board may prepare plans and specifications, advertise for bids and enter into contracts before the funds are made available for such appropriation either by tax levy, bond issue or otherwise. The state board may pay for the cost of preparing plans and specifications and of advertising and awarding such contracts and the custodians of the state institutional construction fund may authorize the comptroller to withdraw temporarily from such fund or from the emergency fund sufficient moneys to pay any such necessary expenses before funds are received and become available to meet the appropriations. Moneys so expended shall be replaced immediately out of the appropriation funds when received. No payment shall be made for the constructing, reconstructing, developing, extending or equipping such institutions or their appurtenances before the funds necessary to meet such appropriations have been collected and made available for such payments in accordance with the provisions of the appropriations, or in case of a bond issue, before the bonds are sold. In case of the sale of bonds, an agreement may be entered into with the purchaser to deliver the bonds in blocks or sufficient numbers, the proceeds of which will finance and pay the cost of construction as it proceeds.
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