Ohio Revised Code Chapter 153 - Public Improvements

• Section 153.01 - Architect Must Submit Accurate Plans, Estimates, Bills Of Materials, And Details To Scale.
  (A) Whenever any building or structure for the use of the state or any institution supported in whole or in part by the state...
• Section 153.011 - Using Domestic Steel Products In State Supported Projects.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, whenever any building or structure, including highway improvements, in whole or in part supported...
• Section 153.012 - Preference To Contractors Having Principal Place Of Business In Ohio.
  With respect to the award of any contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, repair, painting or decoration of a public improvement, including...
• Section 153.013 - Compliance With Regulations Or Ordinances Of Political Subdivisions For Certain Projects.
  If a project for the construction, alteration, or other improvement of a building or structure is administered by the executive director of the Ohio...
• Section 153.02 - Debarment Of Contractor From Contract Awards.
  (A) The executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission, may debar a contractor from contract awards for public improvements as referred to in...
• Section 153.03 - Contracts To Require Drug-free Workplace Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting authority" means any state agency or other state instrumentality that is authorized to award a public...
• Section 153.031 - Rc 153.03 Requirements Limited To State Improvements.
  The general assembly intends the drug-free workplace programs required by section 153.03 of the Revised Code to be limited to the constructing, altering, or...
• Section 153.04 - Forms For Providing Bidding Information - Life-cycle Costs.
  The plans, details, bills of material, specifications of work, estimates of cost in detail and in the aggregate, life-cycle cost analysis, form of bid,...
• Section 153.05 - Actions To Enforce Bond.
  The bond required by section 153.08 of the Revised Code may be enforced against the person executing such bond, by any claimant for labor...
• Section 153.06 - Form Of Bids.
  After the proceedings required by sections 153.01 and 153.04 of the Revised Code have been complied with, the owner referred to in section 153.01...
• Section 153.07 - Publishing Notice Of Bids.
  The notice provided for in section 153.06 of the Revised Code shall be published once each week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper...
• Section 153.08 - Opening Bids And Awarding Contract.
  On the day and at the place named in the notice provided for in section 153.06 of the Revised Code, the owner referred to...
• Section 153.09 - New Proposals When Necessary - Change In Work Or Materials.
  If in the opinion of the owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code, the award of a contract to the lowest...
• Section 153.10 - No Change In Plans Without Approval Of Owner.
  After the plans, bills of material, specifications of work, estimates of cost in detail and in the aggregate, life-cycle cost analysis, form of bid,...
• Section 153.11 - Change Of Plans Becomes Part Of Original Contract.
  Whenever the change referred to in section 153.10 of the Revised Code is approved by the owner as defined in section 153.01 of the...
• Section 153.12 - Awarding And Executing Contract.
  (A) With respect to award of any contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, repair, painting, or decoration of a public improvement made...
• Section 153.13 - Estimates Of Labor And Materials - Funds In Escrow Account.
  At the time named in the contract for payment to the person with whom it is made, the owner referred to in section 153.01...
• Section 153.14 - Estimates To Be Filed With Executive Director - Payment On Materials Delivered - Payment Procedure.
  For the construction of those projects, improvements, and public buildings over which the Ohio facilities construction commission has general supervision pursuant to section 123.21...
• Section 153.15 - Assessment Of Asbestos Hazard.
  (A) Whenever an asbestos hazard abatement activity is being performed in a building or structure supported in whole or in part by the state,...
• Section 153.16 - Policy And Procedure Guidelines For Contract Documents In Conjunction With Administration Of Public Works Contracts.
  (A) The executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish policy and procedure guidelines for contract documents in conjunction with the administration...
• Section 153.17 - Requisition Upon Contractor For Additional Specific Force Or Materials.
  (A) When in the opinion of the owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code, the work under any contract made under...
• Section 153.18 - Certification Of Additional Force Or Materials.
  The owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code shall make separate estimates of all additional force or materials employed or supplied...
• Section 153.19 - Contract Shall Contain Provision As To Time Of Completion.
  All contracts under sections 153.01 to 153.60, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall contain provision in regard to the time when the whole or...
• Section 153.20 - Duty Of Attorney General.
  The attorney general shall have charge of and direct the proceedings necessary to enforce contracts authorized by sections 153.01 to 153.19, inclusive, of the...
• Section 153.21 - Building Commission.
  When the board of county commissioners has determined to erect a courthouse or other county building, or to make an addition to, or to...
• Section 153.22 - Compensation Of Commissioners.
  The persons appointed under section 153.21 of the Revised Code after August 22, 1951, shall receive a reasonable compensation for the time actually employed,...
• Section 153.23 - Expenses Of Building Commission.
  The necessary expenses for stationery, postage, correspondence, and travel out of the county required in the discharge of the duties of the building commission...
• Section 153.24 - Oath And Bond.
  Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the persons appointed to the building commission shall each take an oath of office and give...
• Section 153.25 - Vacancies.
  In case of the death, resignation, or removal of any member of the building commission, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the...
• Section 153.26 - Contracts.
  After adopting plans, specifications, and estimates, the building commission shall invite bids and award contracts in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92, inclusive, of...
• Section 153.27 - Architects - Superintendents - Employees.
  The building commission may employ architects, superintendents, and other necessary employees during the construction of a courthouse or other county building and fix their...
• Section 153.28 - Plans, Drawings, And Cost Estimates Filed With County Auditor.
  When approved by the building commission, the plans, drawings, representations, bills of material, specifications of work, and estimates of cost thereof shall be filed...
• Section 153.29 - Proceedings Of Building Commission.
  Resolutions for the adoption or alteration of plans or specifications, or for the award of contracts, hiring of architects, superintendent, or other employees and...
• Section 153.30 - Record Of Proceedings.
  Full and accurate records of all proceedings of the building commission shall be kept by the county auditor upon the journal of the board...
• Section 153.31 - Plans And Estimates For Construction - Construction Project Manager Or Consultants.
  When it becomes necessary for the board of county commissioners of a county to erect or cause to be erected a public building, or...
• Section 153.311 - Construction Of Public Building In Stages.
  Nothing contained in Chapter 153. of the Revised Code shall prevent a board of county commissioners from constructing a public building in stages and...
• Section 153.32 - Contracts For Erection And Repair Of Superstructures.
  When it becomes necessary to erect a bridge, the board of county commissioners shall determine the length and width of the superstructure, and whether...
• Section 153.33 - Bids On Other Plans May Be Considered.
  The board of county commissioners may also invite, receive, and consider bids on any other plan at the option of bidders, and shall require...
• Section 153.34 - Contents Of Advertisement.
  In its advertisement, the board of county commissioners shall invite bidders to make bids for furnishing all the materials and performing all the work,...
• Section 153.35 - Plans Shall Be Kept On File In County Auditor's Office.
  The plans and specifications upon which the contracts are awarded, shall be kept on file in the office of the county auditor and made...
• Section 153.36 - Approval Of Plans For Courthouse Or Jail.
  If the plans, drawings, representations, bills of material, and specifications of work, and estimates of the cost thereof in detail and in the aggregate,...
• Section 153.37 - Approval Of Plans For County Home.
  If the plans, drawings, representations, bills of material, and specifications of work and estimates of the cost thereof relate to the building, addition to,...
• Section 153.38 - Approval Of Plans For Bridge.
  If the plans, drawings, representations, bills of material, specifications of work, and estimates relate to the building of a bridge, they shall be submitted...
• Section 153.39 - Approval Of Plans For Children's Home.
  If the plans, drawings, representations, bills of material, specifications of work, and estimates relate to the building of a children's home, they shall be...
• Section 153.40 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-09-1967
• Section 153.41 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-02-1953
• Section 153.42, 153.43 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-09-1967
• Section 153.44 - Contracts Submitted To Prosecuting Attorney.
  Before work is done or material furnished, all contracts that exceed one thousand dollars in amount shall be submitted by the board of county...
• Section 153.45 - Commissioners May Annul Old And Make New Contracts.
  If a contractor fails or refuses to proceed with the work specified in his contract in accordance with the plans, descriptions, and specifications attached...
• Section 153.46 To 153.48 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-27-1976
• Section 153.49 - Duty Of County Treasurer.
  The county treasurer shall pay the warrants drawn for materials and labor furnished on county contracts pursuant to estimates prepared under section 153.14 of...
• Section 153.50 - Separate Bids For Work And Materials.
  (A) As used in sections 153.50 to 153.52 of the Revised Code: (1) "Construction manager at risk" has the same meaning as in section...
• Section 153.501 - Subcontracts Awarded By Construction Manager At Risk, Design-build Firm, Or General Contracting Firm; Utilization Of Design-assist Firm; Self-performed Portions Of Work.
  (A) A public authority may accept a subcontract awarded by a construction manager at risk, a design-build firm, or a general contracting firm, or...
• Section 153.502 - Construction Management Or Design-build Contracts; Prequalification Of Bidders.
  (A) Each construction manager at risk and design-build firm shall establish criteria by which it will prequalify prospective bidders on subcontracts awarded for work...
• Section 153.503 - Adoption Of Rules.
  The Ohio facilities construction commission, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code , shall adopt rules to do all of the following: (A)...
• Section 153.51 - Separate Contracts - Single, Aggregate Contract.
  (A) If separate and distinct bids are required pursuant to section 153.50 of the Revised Code , no contract for the entire job, or...
• Section 153.52 - Awarding Of Contracts To Separate Bidders.
  A contract for general contracting or for doing the work belonging to each separate branch or class of work specified in division (B) of...
• Section 153.53 - Adjusting Threshold In Section 153.01 For Inflation.
  (A) As used in this section, "rate of inflation" has the same meaning as in section 107.032 of the Revised Code. (B) Five years...
• Section 153.54 - Bid Guaranty To Be Filed With Bid.
  (A) Except with respect to a contract described in section 9.334 or 153.693 of the Revised Code, each person bidding for a contract with...
• Section 153.55 - Dividing Project Into Parts To Avoid Threshold Prohibited; Costs Included In Threshold Amount.
  (A) For purposes of calculating the amount of a public improvement project to determine whether it is subject to section 153.01 of the Revised...
• Section 153.56 - Creditor Shall Furnish Statement Of Amount Due - Service Of Notice Of Furnishing.
  (A) Any person to whom any money is due for labor or work performed or materials furnished in a public improvement as provided in...
• Section 153.57 - Form Of Bond.
  (A) The bond provided for in division (C)(1) of section 153.54 of the Revised Code shall be in substantially the following form, and recovery...
• Section 153.571 - Form Of Bond.
  The bond provided for in division (B) of section 153.54 of the Revised Code shall be in substantially the following form, and recovery of...
• Section 153.58 - Prohibition.
  No officers shall violate sections 153.01 to 153.57, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 153.581 - Contracts For Construction Definitions.
  As used in sections 153.581 and 153.591 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public works contract" means any contract awarded by a contracting authority for...
• Section 153.59 - Discrimination And Intimidation On Account Of Race, Religion, Sex, Disability, National Origin Or Ancestry.
  Every contract for or on behalf of the state, or any township, county, or municipal corporation of the state, for the construction, alteration, or...
• Section 153.591 - Hiring Hall Contract Or Agreement.
  Any provision of a hiring hall contract or agreement which obligates a contractor to hire, if available, only employees referred to the contractor by...
• Section 153.60 - Forfeiture.
  The contract referred to in section 153.59 of the Revised Code shall provide as a forfeiture for any breach of the provisions against discrimination:...
• Section 153.61 - Agreement For Joint Construction And Management.
  Any county or counties and any municipal corporation or municipal corporations may enter into an agreement providing for the joint construction, acquisition, or improvement...
• Section 153.62 - Issuing Change Order For Additional Work.
  All contracts for the erection, construction, repair, or alteration of any building, highway, or other work or improvement of any nature by an officer,...
• Section 153.63 - Agreement For Escrow Account For Contractor.
  (A) Any money which is due from the public owner referred to in section 153.12 of the Revised Code under a contract entered into...
• Section 153.64 - Protecting Underground Utility Facilities During Construction Of Public Improvement.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Public improvement" means any construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, or repair of a building, highway, drainage system,...
• Section 153.65 - Professional Design Services Definitions.
  As used in sections 153.65 to 153.73 of the Revised Code: (A) (1) "Public authority" means the state, a state institution of higher education...
• Section 153.66 - Submitting Statement Of Qualifications.
  (A) Each public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall encourage professional design firms and design-build firms to submit...
• Section 153.67 - Announcing Contracts Available For Professional Design Or Design-build Services.
  Each public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall publicly announce all contracts available from it for such services....
• Section 153.68 - Instituting Prequalification Requirements.
  Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services may institute prequalification requirements for professional design firms seeking to provide services to the...
• Section 153.69 - Evaluating And Selecting Firms.
  For every professional design services contract, each public authority planning to contract for professional design services shall evaluate the statements of qualifications submitted by...
• Section 153.691 - No Fee Estimate On Contract For Professional Design Services.
  No public authority planning to contract for professional design services under section 153.69 of the Revised Code shall require any form of fee estimate,...
• Section 153.692 - Obtaining Services Of Criteria Architect Or Engineer.
  For every design-build contract, the public authority planning to contract for design-build services shall first obtain the services of a criteria architect or engineer...
• Section 153.693 - Evaluation Of Design-build Firms.
  (A) For every design-build contract, the public authority planning to contract for design-build services, in consultation with the criteria architect or engineer, shall evaluate...
• Section 153.694 - Conflicts Of Interest.
  If a professional design firm selected as the criteria architect or engineer creates the preliminary criteria and design criteria for a project and provides...
• Section 153.70 - Requiring Professional Liability Insurance.
  (A) Except for any person providing professional design services of a research or training nature, any person rendering professional design services to a public...
• Section 153.71 - Administrative Rules.
  Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services may adopt, amend, or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119....
• Section 153.72 - Authority Of Design-build Firm.
  A design-build firm contracted for design-build services by a public authority may do either of the following: (A) Perform design, construction, demolition, alteration, repair,...
• Section 153.73 - Construction Of Statutes.
  The requirements set forth in sections 153.65 to 153.72 of the Revised Code for the bidding, selection, and award of a contract for professional...
• Section 153.80 - Reducing Bond.
  (A) A contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of a public improvement entered into on or after April 16, 1993, shall...
• Section 153.83 - Hearings Related To Contractor Labor Agreements.
  (A) As used in this section, "public improvement" means any of the following: (1) A road, bridge, highway, street, or tunnel; (2) A waste...
• Section 153.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 153.58 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (B) A person who purchases or...

Last modified: October 10, 2016