§ 48 - Powers and duties of council - Vermont Statutes

§ 48. Powers and duties of council

(a) The council shall facilitate a process which will result in a recommendation of an artist or artist team for each project selected for installation of artwork. The artist or artist team shall collaborate with the project architect or design team during the initial design phase of the project.

(b) Following design of the project, the council shall:

(1) appoint persons to serve on the art selection panel;

(2) establish contract procedures for contracting with artists for works of art and with architects for services related to the planning for the acquisition of works of art;

(3) on the advice of the art selection panel, arrange contracts with artists and order payments from the art acquisition fund for such works of art;

(4) review the final installation and placement of works of art. In the case of works to be commissioned, the art selection panel shall review the design, the final execution and the placement of the commissioned work;

(5) assist occupant and contracting agencies in locating insurance when it deems such insurance is necessary for the protection of the works of art which are purchased.

(c) Without further appropriation, the council may expend funds transferred to it for administration of this chapter. (Added 1987, No. 267 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1993, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 72, eff. June 21, 1994; 1997, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 48, eff. April 29, 1998; 2007, No. 52, § 29, eff. May 28, 2007.)