The department shall prepare and maintain a public work reserve consisting of proposed projects of State, county, municipal and ad hoc agencies for public works and services. The projects included in the public work reserve shall be classified and arranged in order of priority so as to facilitate selection and timing of individual projects. For this purpose the department shall:

a. Keep records of the progress of design of all proposed public works and improvements for which funds for detailed plans and specifications have heretofore been made available to various State departments, so that the status, scope, cost, employment possibilities, materials and equipment needed for the execution of such projects after the war may be promptly available to officials and to the public;

b. Keep like records of the progress of the preparation of plans and specifications for State projects in addition to the projects enumerated in paragraph (a);

c. Prepare and maintain current progress information on the design of post-war projects by political subdivisions of the State.

L.1944, c. 85, art. 4, p. 177, s. 28.