"State public works project" means a project of a state agency, not including projects of the state educational institutions, the supreme court building commission, the legislature or local public bodies, that uses architectural or engineering services requiring professional services costing fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more or landscape architectural or surveying services requiring professional services costing ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more, excluding applicable state and local gross receipts taxes.

History: Laws 1984, ch. 65, § 64; 1989, ch. 69, § 6; 1991, ch. 127, § 1; 1993, ch. 72, § 2; 2007, ch. 312, § 4; 2007, ch. 315, § 2.

2007 Multiple Amendments. — Laws 2007, ch. 312, § 4 and Laws 2007, ch. 315, § 2 enacted different amendments to this section. Pursuant to 12-1-8 NMSA 1978, Laws 2007, ch. 315, § 2, as the last act signed by the governor, is set out above and incorporates both amendments. The amendments enacted by Laws 2007, ch. 312, § 4 and Laws 2007, ch. 315, § 2 are described below. To view the session laws in their entirety, see the 2007 session laws on NMOneSource.com.

Laws 2007, ch. 315, § 2, effective June 15, 2007, increased the minimum amount of a state public works project requiring professional services from $25,000 to $50,000 and landscape architectural or surveying services from $5,000 to $10,000.

Laws 2007, ch. 312, § 4, effective July 1, 2007, increased the minimum cost of professional services to $50,000.

The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, deleted "highway projects of the state highway and transportation department, or" following "not including" near the beginning and substituted "five thousand dollars ($5,000)" for "fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000)" near the end of the section.

The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted "architectural or engineering services requiring professional services costing twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more, or landscape architectural or surveying services requiring professional services costing fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or more" for "architectural, landscape architectural, engineering or surveying services requiring professional services costing fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or more."