SECTIONS 14685-14690 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 14685-14690

14685. (a) The director shall appoint assistants, clerks, and
employees as may be necessary to maintain the state buildings and
grounds. The employees shall not have or perform the duties or
functions of peace officers.
The department may establish rules and regulations for the
government and maintenance of the state buildings and grounds. Every
person who violates or attempts to violate the rules and regulations
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Information regarding missing children provided by the
Department of Justice pursuant to Section 11114.1 of the Penal Code
shall be posted in public areas of all state-owned or leased
buildings that have at least 20,000 square feet of office space, or
that are staffed by at least 50 employees, or where service is
provided to the general public and in other public areas of
state-owned or leased buildings as determined by the department to be
reasonable.
(c) (1) The Department of the California Highway Patrol may
establish rules and regulations pertaining to the protection of state
employees, properties, buildings and grounds, and occupants of state
properties, including, but not limited to, the issuance of permits
concerning the use of state buildings, properties, and grounds.
(2) A violation of any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to
paragraph (1) is a misdemeanor.
(3) This subdivision does not apply to state buildings or grounds
owned, leased, rented, controlled, used, or occupied by the
University of California, the California State University, Hastings
College of the Law, the California Exposition and State Fair, the
state hospitals of the State Department of Mental Health or the State
Department of Developmental Services, the institutions and camps of
the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth
Authority, and the parks and beaches of the Department of Parks and
Recreation.

14686. The Department of General Services shall purchase and
provide for the display of both the Flag of the United States and the
Bear Flag of California in a prominent place outside of each public
building of the state.

14687. To enable it better to perform its powers and duties
relating to public buildings, the department may become a member and
participate in the activities of any building management association.
The department may pay any fee or charge incident to membership in
such an association or for services furnished thereby out of any
money available for expenditure by the department.
Such membership and participation does not render the department
nor the state liable to the payment of any dues, fees or other
considerations after withdrawal of the department from membership and
participation and membership and participation is subject to the
right of the department to withdraw at any time and terminate any
obligations that membership or participation may entail.

14688. The department shall consider all matters of city planning
affecting the future needs of the state and the relation of the state
plans to those of the capital city.

14689. The department shall confer and advise with the planning
body of the capital city concerning all matters affecting the
metropolitan district in and within 15 miles outside the corporate
limits of the city. It shall make recommendations to the governing
bodies of all political units within the metropolitan district and to
the Governor as to all matters of interest to the state concerning
existing or new roads, boulevards and thoroughfares, street railway
systems, depots, smoke prevention, parks, parkways and playgrounds,
water supply, sewage and sewage disposal, collection and disposal of
garbage, civic centers, and other natural or artificial physical
features, and other public improvements that will affect the
character of the district as a whole.

14690. The department may make recommendations to such political
units concerning the metropolitan district. In so doing it shall have
regard for:
(a) The present conditions and future needs and growth of the
district.
(b) The distribution and relative location of all streets and
railways, waterways, and other means of public travel and business
communication.
(c) The distribution and relative locations of all public
buildings, public grounds, and open spaces devoted to the public use.
(d) The planning and laying out for urban uses of private grounds
brought into the market from time to time.