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Ohio Rev. Code § 153.01 (2026)

Architect must submit accurate plans, estimates, bills of materials, and details to scale

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September 30, 2025
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House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly
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(A) Whenever any building or structure for the use of the state or any institution supported in whole or in part by the state or in or upon the public works of the state that is administered by the Ohio facilities construction commission or by any other state officer or state agency authorized by law to administer a project, including an educational institution listed in section 3345.50 of the Revised Code, is to be erected or constructed, whenever additions, alterations, or structural or other improvements are to be made, or whenever heating, cooling, or ventilating plants or other equipment is to be installed or material supplied therefor, the estimated cost of which amounts to two hundred thousand dollars or more, or the amount determined pursuant to section 153.53 of the Revised Code or more, each officer, board, or other authority upon which devolves the duty of constructing, erecting, altering, or installing the same, referred to in sections 153.01 to 153.60 of the Revised Code as the public authority, shall cause to be made, by an architect or engineer whose contract of employment shall be prepared and approved by the attorney general, the following:

(1) Full and accurate plans, suitable for the use of mechanics and other builders in the construction, improvement, addition, alteration, or installation;

(2) Details to scale and full-sized, so drawn and represented as to be easily understood;

(3) Definite and complete specifications of the work to be performed, together with directions that will enable a competent mechanic or other builder to carry them out and afford bidders all needful information;

(4) A full and accurate estimate of each item of expense and the aggregate cost of those items of expense;

(5) A life-cycle cost analysis;

(6) Further data as may be required by the Ohio facilities construction commission.

In preparing these plans, details, specifications, estimates, analyses, or other data, the public authority may require the architect or engineer to use a building information model system, as long as the system is based on a nationally recognized standard for building information models. As used in this division, "building information model" means a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility, and electronic files used to design and coordinate the project, whether it is a single model or multiple models used in the aggregate.

(B)(1) Division (A) of this section shall not be required with respect to a construction management contract entered into with a construction manager at risk as described in section 9.334 of the Revised Code or a design-build contract entered into with a design-build firm as described in section 153.693 of the Revised Code.

(2) Nothing in this chapter shall interfere with the power of the director of transportation to prepare plans for, acquire rights-of-way for, construct, or maintain roads, highways, or bridges, or to let contracts for those purposes.

Last updated July 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 20 cases, 1967–2020 · leading case: Mech. Contractors Ass'n of Cincinnati, Inc. v. Univ. of Cincinnati, 750 N.E.2d 1217 (Ohio Ct. App. 2001).
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Mech. Contractors Ass'n of Cincinnati, Inc. v. Univ. of Cincinnati, 750 N.E.2d 1217 (Ohio Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 8× “R.C. 153.01 defines the types of projects that are subject to the competitive bidding rules found in R.”
Hughes-Bechtol, Inc. v. Ohio (In Re Hughes-Bechtol, Inc.), 124 B.R. 1007 (Bankr. S.D. Ohio 1991). · cites it 5× “COUNT III: The debtor asserts that it relied upon O.R.C. § 153.01 and the Bid Documents as a whole, and the warranty *1013 that the project could be built to the design on which bids were solicited and in a time frame specified for the project.”
Cleveland Constr., Inc. v. Ohio Dep't of Admin. Servs., 700 N.E.2d 54 (Ohio Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 3× “09 provides: “If in the opinion of the owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code, the award of a contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder is not in the best interests of the state, with the written consent of the department of administrative…”
Tiemann v. Univ. of Cincinnati, 712 N.E.2d 1258 (Ohio Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 2× “Plaintiffs-appellees claim in paragraph 25 of their complaint a construction cost for the structure in question of over $68,000,000 and, that, by appellant's failure to follow bidding procedures for 'public works projects' set out in R.C. 153.01 et seq. as well as other Revised…”
Mid Am. Constr., L.L.C. v. Univ. of Akron, 2019 Ohio 3863 (Ohio Ct. App. 2019). “19 entitled "Contract shall contain provision as to time of completion," reads as follows: "All contracts under sections 153.01 to 153.60, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall contain provision in regard to the time when the whole or any specified portion of work contemplated…”
L.T.M. Builders Co. v. Vill. of Jefferson, 399 N.E.2d 1210 (Ohio 1980). “57 provides that the “recovery of any claimant***[under a bond required by law for public contracts] shall be subject to sections 153.01 to 153.60, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to the same extent as if the provisions of such sections were fully incorporated in said bond form.”
Bale Contracting, Inc. v. City of Westerville, 455 N.E.2d 517 (Ohio Ct. App. 1982). “19 supports the materiality of a completion date as follows: “All contracts under sections 153.01 to 153.60, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall contain provision in regard to the time when the whole or any specified portion of work contemplated therein shall be completed and…”
State ex rel. Dinneen Excavating Co. v. Sykes, 531 N.E.2d 1309 (Ohio 1988). · cites it 2× ““An owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code shall place such detained funds in an escrow account as provided for under section 153.”
State ex rel. Maynard v. Medina Cty. Facilities Taskforce Subcomm., 2020 Ohio 5561 (Ohio Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 2× “; see also R.C. 153.01(A) and 153.69. As a result, the court held that the “ ‘Subcommittee,’ including its members, is non sui juris,” requiring that “[Maynard]’s claims * * * be dismissed.”
State Ex Rel. Schaefer v. Bd. of Cnty. Commrs., 229 N.E.2d 88 (Ohio Ct. App. 1967). “’ ” In that case, the court took into account that Section 2364, General Code, as amended by the enactment of supplemental Sections 2314 and 2314-1 of the General Code, now Sections 153.01 and 153.02 of the Revised Code, was a special section applying only to state buildings…”
Colaianni Constr., Inc. v. Indian Creek Local Sch. Dist., 2016 Ohio 8156 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 5× “{¶45} The contractor relies on this court’s 1993 decision which rejected a school district’s argument it was not the “owner” referred to R.C. 153.01. Salem City School Dist. Bd. of Educ.”
Accutemp, Inc. v. Longview State Hosp., 461 N.E.2d 905 (Ohio Ct. App. 1983). “This statutory interpretation makes the Department of Administrative Services the owner upon whom devolves the duty of installing cooling equipment according to the language of R.C. 153.01. That section provides that the owner shall cause plans to be made, and subsequent Revised…”
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— Ohio Rev. Code § 153.01(A) — 1 case
State ex rel. Maynard v. Medina Cty. Facilities Taskforce Subcomm., 2020 Ohio 5561 (Ohio Ct. App. 2020). “; see also R.C. 153.01(A) and 153.69. As a result, the court held that the “ ‘Subcommittee,’ including its members, is non sui juris,” requiring that “[Maynard]’s claims * * * be dismissed.”
— Ohio Rev. Code § 153.01(D) — 1 case
Hughes-Bechtol, Inc. v. Ohio (In Re Hughes-Bechtol, Inc.), 124 B.R. 1007 (Bankr. S.D. Ohio 1991). “COUNT III: The debtor asserts that it relied upon O.R.C. § 153.01 and the Bid Documents as a whole, and the warranty *1013 that the project could be built to the design on which bids were solicited and in a time frame specified for the project.”
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