52:34-9.3 Filing of current statement of qualifications, supporting data with agency; fee.
3. A professional firm which wishes to be considered qualified to provide professional architectural, engineering, or land surveying services to an agency seeking to negotiate a contract or agreement for the performance of such services shall file or shall have filed with the agency a current statement of qualifications and supporting data. Such a statement may be filed at any time during a calendar year, and a $100 fee shall be remitted to the State Treasurer by the professional firm at the time each statement is filed. The content of any such statement shall conform to such regulations with respect thereto as the State Treasurer, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate. For the purposes of this section and section 5 of this act, no statement which shall have been filed more than two years prior to the publication of an advertisement pursuant to the provisions of section 4 of this act shall be deemed to be a current statement with respect to qualification of the firm which shall have filed the statement to provide professional architectural, engineering, or land surveying services under any contract or agreement of which notice is given through that advertisement.
A statement of qualifications and supporting data filed with an agency under this section shall be a public record for all purposes of P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.).
The fee prescribed hereunder shall not apply to any statements filed before the effective date of P.L.2003, c.117.
L.1997,c.399,s.3; amended 2003, c.117, s.11.