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[CITE: 40USC541]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
       CHAPTER 10--MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
 
          SUBCHAPTER VI--SELECTION OF ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
 
Sec. 541. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter--
    (1) The term ``firm'' means any individual, firm, partnership, 
corporation, association, or other legal entity permitted by law to 
practice the professions of architecture or engineering.
    (2) The term ``agency head'' means the Secretary, Administrator, or 
head of a department, agency, or bureau of the Federal Government.
    (3) The term ``architectural and engineering services'' means--
        (A) professional services of an architectural or engineering 
    nature, as defined by State law, if applicable, which are required 
    to be performed or approved by a person licensed, registered, or 
    certified to provide such services as described in this paragraph;
        (B) professional services of an architectural or engineering 
    nature performed by contract that are associated with research, 
    planning, development, design, construction, alteration, or repair 
    of real property; and
        (C) such other professional services of an architectural or 
    engineering nature, or incidental services, which members of the 
    architectural and engineering professions (and individuals in their 
    employ) may logically or justifiably perform, including studies, 
    investigations, surveying and mapping, tests, evaluations, 
    consultations, comprehensive planning, program management, 
    conceptual designs, plans and specifications, value engineering, 
    construction phase services, soils engineering, drawing reviews, 
    preparation of operating and maintenance manuals, and other related 
    services.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title IX, Sec. 901, as added Pub. L. 92-582, 
Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1278; amended Pub. L. 100-656, title VII, 
Sec. 742, Nov. 15, 1988, 102 Stat. 3897; Pub. L. 100-679, Sec. 8, Nov. 
17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4068.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Par. (3). Pub. L. 100-656 and Pub. L. 100-679 made 
substantially identical amendments, substituting par. (3) consisting of 
subpars. (A) to (C) for former par. (3) which read as follows: ``The 
term `architectural and engineering services' includes those 
professional services of an architectural or engineering nature as well 
as incidental services that members of these professions and those in 
their employ may logically or justifiably perform.''


                               Short Title

    Section 905 of title IX of act June 30, 1949, as added by Pub. L. 
103-355, title X, Sec. 10005(f)(2), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3409, 
provided that: ``This title [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as 
the `Brooks Architect-Engineers Act'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 31 section 1105; title 41 
section 259.
