Notwithstanding any prohibition on road and highway construction or reconstruction projects in Section 13-1-119.1 NMSA 1978, the department of transportation may use a design and build project delivery system pursuant to Section 13-1-119.1 NMSA 1978 for projects with a maximum allowable construction cost of more than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) funded in whole or in part by federal-aid highway funds.
History: Laws 2009, ch. 207, § 1; 2016, ch. 85, § 1; 2016, ch. 86, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2016 amendment, effective May 18, 2016, allowed the use of design and build project delivery systems for road and highway projects that use federal-aid highway funds; after "funded in whole or in part by", deleted "the grants programs of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" and added "federal-aid highway funds".
Laws 2016, ch. 85, § 1 and Laws 2016, ch. 86, § 1, both effective May 18, 2016, enacted identical amendments to this section. The section was set out as amended by Laws 2016, ch. 86, § 1. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.