No more than six and one-half percent of the cost of a capital project shall be used for contingencies. For the purposes of this section, 'contingencies' means unforeseeable elements of cost within the defined scope of the capital project. History: 1978 Comp., § 15-3-23.2, enacted by Laws 1984 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10; recompiled and amended as 1978 Comp., § 15-3B-11 by Laws 2001, ch. 319, § 11. ANNOTATIONSThe 2001 amendment, effective July 1, 2001, recompiled former 15-3-23.2 NMSA 1978 as this section; and deleted 'and cost engineering fees' from the end of the section.
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