Subdivision 1. Required and permitted competitions.
(a) The board must secure plans for a new public building by a competition.
(b) A competition also may be used for plans for a proposed (1) comprehensive plan; (2) landscaping scheme; (3) street plan; (4) property acquisition; or (5) change to a public building, landscaping scheme, or street plan.
(c) The competition must be conducted under rules adopted by the board.
(d) The competition must be of a type that meets the competition standards of the American Institute of Architects.
Subd. 2. Design ownership.
When a design is selected in a competition it becomes the property of the state.
Subd. 3. Premiums; costs.
The board may award premiums in a competition and may pay the costs and fees required to conduct it.
Subd. 4. Competition waiver.
(a) Notwithstanding subdivision 1, paragraph (a), the board, without a competition, may approve plans for a project estimated to cost less than $1,000,000.
(b) The plans still must have been considered by the advisory committee established under section 15B.11 .
(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), the advisory committee need not consider projects that are in conformity with the comprehensive plan and that are:
(1) to construct a street; or
(2) estimated to cost less than $400,000.