338.1717 - Employment of architect, general contractor, construction manager as agent, landscape architect or engineer as consultant.

338.1717  Employment of architect, general contractor, construction manager as agent, landscape architect or engineer as consultant.  A public body may employ a registered architect, general contractor, construction manager as agent, landscape architect or licensed professional engineer as a consultant to assist the public body in overseeing the construction of a public work. An architect, general contractor, construction manager as agent, landscape architect or engineer so employed shall not:

      1.  Construct the public work; or

      2.  Assume overall responsibility for ensuring that the construction of the public work is completed in a satisfactory manner.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 3472; A 2001, 2022; 2003, 119, 2441; 2007, 2903)