Contracts with design professionals; provisions requiring a duty to defend void.

Contracts with design professionals; provisionsrequiring a duty to defend void. Provides that a provision containedin a contract between an architect or professional engineer and anypublic body relating to the planning or design of a building requiringthe architect or professional engineer to defend another party tothe contract or a named indemnitee against liability for damage arisingout of bodily injury to persons or damage to the property sufferedin the course of the performance of the contract that is caused byor that resulted solely from the negligence of such other party isagainst public policy and is void and unenforceable.