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Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article IX: Boards, Commissions, and Authorities, Chapter 175.08: Art Commission - Ornamentation for Municipal Projects; Plan Review and Approval, and supplementing Pittsburgh Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article I: Administration by adding Chapter 218.10: Percent for Art.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article IX: Boards, Commissions, and Authorities, Chapter 175.08: Art Commission - Ornamentation for Municipal Projects; Plan Review and Approval is hereby amended as follows:
? 175.08 - ORNAMENTATION FOR MUNICIPAL PROJECTS; PLAN REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
(a)
At least one (1) percent of the maximum authorized amount for municipal construction or renovation of public buildings costing fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) or more shall, except as hereinafter provided, be reserved for the inclusion of works of art, as hereinafter defined, as approved by the City Art Commission.
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In every contract for the construction or renovation of a public building costing fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) or more and financed in whole or in part by the city, the department in charge of the project, in cooperation with the architect or engineer employed for the project shall, in the first instance, prior to advertisement for and award of the contracts, determine whether works of art are desirable and in the public interest. If so, the department shall include the works of art in the plans for the project.
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The City department in charge of the project shall submit preliminary designs and all final plans, together with a notation of the maximum authorized amount as provided in the authorizing resolution, to the Art Commission; and except as hereinafter provided, the recommendation of the Art Commission shall be transmitted to and received by the department prior to advertisement for and award of the contracts.
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