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Chapter IV Competition and Selection Meeting
Article 21
The executive task force shall, depending on such things as the nature of the building/construction project or site and the budget, utilize one or more of the following selection methods and hold the competition after approval by the review committee:
1. Public competition: Make public solicitations for public art installation plans, hold a selection meeting(s), and choose the most suitable plan.
2. Invitational: After an assessment and listing of reasons, invite two or more artistic creators or groups to submit plan proposals. At a selection meeting, choose the most suitable plan. Where the plan budget reaches NT$1 million, invite three or more artistic creators or groups to submit plan proposals.
3. Commissioned work: After an assessment and listing of reasons, select an appropriate artistic creator or group to submit two or more plan proposals. At a selection meeting, choose the most suitable plan.
4. Targeted purchase or lease: After an assessment and listing of reasons, purchase or lease paintings, handicrafts, sculptures, and other suitable public art.
Article 22
For public competitions, competition documents shall be published on the Ministry of Culture’s Public Art website and an informational meeting shall be held. Except where the review committee so agrees, the following lower limit shall apply to the announcement period:
1. Plans with a budget of over NT$10 million: 45 days;
2. Plans with a budget of between NT$500,000 and NT$10 million: 30 days
For invitationals and commissioned works, the names of the selected artistic creator/group as well as of alternates are to be listed in the plan.
For targeted purchases, valuation meeting minutes shall be included in the plan; the results report of the public art competition needs not be submitted.
For public competitions, invitationals, and commissioned works, the fixed fee is to be included in the selection documents or the submitted plan.
Article 23
The implementing agency (organization) shall, when carrying out the selection described in Article 21, establish a selection task force comprised of five to nine members and retained (dispatched) from the following:
1. Executive task force members; and
2. Taiwan-based experts and scholars recommended by the executive task force.
At least one-fifth, but not all, of the members shall be drawn from the executive task force. No fewer than one-half of members shall be visual arts experts drawn from the Ministry of Culture’s database of visual arts experts and scholars of the public art.
Article 24
A quorum of at least one-half of members of the selection committee shall be required to hold selection meetings and vote on resolutions. A vote of one-half of attending members shall be binding. Of the quorum, no fewer than one-third shall be externally retained experts and scholars.
Selection committee members shall abide by the principle of recusal and act in accordance with Article 32, Article 33 of the Administrative Procedure Act, and other related provisions.
With the unanimous agreement of selection committee members, the names of committee members may appear on the introduction to the selection process.