16-6-801. Definitions.

(a) As used in this article:

(i) "Agency" means any state office, department, board, commission or institution and any community college district to which funds have been appropriated, bonded or otherwise provided by the state for the design and original construction of any new building;

(ii) "Architect" means any person licensed to practice architecture pursuant to W.S. 33-4-101 through 33-4-117 and designated as the project architect for a specific capital construction project;

(iii) "Artist" means any practitioner generally recognized by peers or critics as a professional who produces works of art;

(iv) "Building" means any permanent structure and any appurtenant structure intended to function as an office, courtroom, hearing or meeting room or other space for carrying on the operation of any agency and any auditorium, meeting room, classroom or other educational facility, library or museum space, or information center for use by the public, excluding utility lines, water projects, fish ponds, school buildings, city buildings, county buildings, public restrooms at state parks, separate structures which are not part of a larger construction project intended solely as storage, warehouse or maintenance and repair facilities;

(v) "Construction cost" means the cost for the actual design and original construction of any new building which is funded in total or in part by appropriated state funds, excluding land acquisition. The phrase does not include the cost for any building funded in part by city or county funds;

(vi) "Department" means the department of state parks and cultural resources acting through the Wyoming arts council established under W.S. 9-2-901;

(vii) "User" means that agency with principal administrative responsibility for the actual use of any building;

(viii) "Works of art" means any frescoe, mosaic, sculpture, drawing, painting, photograph, calligraphy, graphic art, stained glass, wall hanging, tapestry, fountain, ornamental gateway, monument, display, architectural embellishment, craft, architectural landscape or any work of mixed media by an artist.