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§ 1 .2.2 Organization of the Specifications into divisions, sections and articles, and arrangement of Drawings shall not
<br /> control the Contractor in dividing the Work among Subcontractors or in establishing the extent of Work to be
<br /> performed by any trade .
<br /> § 1 .2. 3 Unless otherwise stated in the Contract Documents, words which have well-known technical or construction
<br /> industry meanings are used in the Contract Documents in accordance with such recognized meanings .
<br /> § 1 .3 CAPITALIZATION
<br /> § 1 .3 . 1 Terms capitalized in these General Conditions include those which are ( 1 ) specifically defined, (2) the titles
<br /> of numbered articles or (3 ) the titles of other documents published by the American Institute of Architects.
<br /> § 1 .4 INTERPRETATION
<br /> § 1 .4. 1 In the interest of brevity the Contract Documents frequently omit modifying words such as " all " and " any"
<br /> and articles such as " the " and " an, " but the fact that a modifier or an article is absent from one statement and appears
<br /> in another is not intended to affect the interpretation of either statement.
<br /> § 1 . 5 EXECUTION OF CONTRACT DOCUMENTS
<br /> § 1 .5. 1 The Contract Documents shall be signed by the Owner and Contractor. If either the Owner or Contractor or
<br /> both do not sign all the Contract Documents, the Architect shall identify such unsigned Documents upon request.
<br /> § 1 .5.2 Execution of the Contract by the Contractor is a representation that the Contractor has visited the site,
<br /> become generally familiar with local conditions under which the Work is to be performed and correlated personal
<br /> observations with requirements of the Contract Documents .
<br /> § 1 . 6
<br /> OWNERSHIP AND USE OF DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF OWNERSHIP AND U
<br /> SE OF DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
<br /> § 1 .6. 1 The Drawings, Specifications and other documents, including those in electronic form, prepared by the
<br /> Architect and the Architect' s consultants are instr-, ::e nts of r
<br /> VL ,Sew .: ^o through whieh describe the Work to be executed
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<br /> by the Cenlira4OF ontractor. Unless Owner fails to pay Architect therefore Owner shall be deemed the owner of
<br /> the Drawings, Specifications and other documents and shall have and retain all rights therein In the event the
<br /> Owner is deser-i; �adiudged to have failed to pav Architect therefore ownership of such Drawings Specifications
<br /> and other documents, and all rights therein, shall revert to the Architect The Contractor may retain one record set .
<br /> Neither the Contractor nor any Subcontractor, Sub-subcontractor or material or equipment supplier shall own or
<br /> claim a copyright in the Drawings, Specifications and other documents prepared by the Architect or the Architect ' s
<br /> eensultants, and unless othef wise indieated the Ar-ehiteet and the Af�ehiteeli' s eansultants shall be deemed the authors
<br /> consultants . All copies of them and moill retain all eenmnen law, statutory such Drawings , Specifications and other
<br /> e e ed Fight in addition to theeapyr-ights . All eepies f lastfunients f � documents, except the
<br /> Contractor' s record set, shall be returned or suitably accounted for to the Architect, on request, upon completion of
<br /> the Work. The Drawings, Specifications and other documents prepared by the Architect and the Architect ' s
<br /> consultants, and copies thereof furnished to the Contractor, are for use solely with respect to this Project. They are
<br /> not to be used by the Contractor or any Subcontractor, Sub- subcontractor or material or equipment supplier on other
<br /> projects or for additions to this Project outside the scope of the Work without the specific written consent of the
<br /> exeeutien of their- Work under- the Gentfaet Doeuments . All eepies Faade under this authorization shall beap4he
<br /> statutory eopyfight notice, if any, shown on the Drawings , Speeifieations and other- doeuments prepared by
<br /> other- purposes in eenneetien with tWs Wejeet is not to be eenstfued as pubheation in defegation of the Ar-ehiteet ' s
<br /> Owner.
<br /> ARTICLE 2 OWNER
<br /> § 2.1 GENERAL
<br /> § 2. 1 . 1 The Owner is the person or entity identified as such in the Agreement and is referred to throughout the
<br /> Contract Documents as if singular in number. The Owner shall designate in writing a representative who shall have
<br /> e*pfess authority to bind-re resent the Owner with respect to all matters requiring the Owner' s approval of
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