SECTIONS 14920-14922 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 14920-14922

14920. (a) The Department of General Services provides for the
specialized consideration of all traffic problems of the state;
develops specialized knowledge of rates, tariffs, and traffic
problems to the end that all state shipments be accomplished in the
most expeditious, economical, and efficient manner possible via
carrier or carriers whose drivers and supporting personnel are
operating under current collective-bargaining agreements or who are
maintaining the prevailing wages, standards and conditions of
employment for its driver and supporting personnel employees; insures
adequate state representation before administrative rate-setting
bodies; disseminates traffic information throughout all state
agencies.
(b) In establishing procedures for obtaining commercial moving
services under competitive bid contracts the department shall act in
accordance with the following:
Every contract (and any bid specification therefor) hereby
authorized and entered into by the state in excess of two thousand
five hundred dollars ($2,500), the principal purpose of which is to
furnish commercial moving services to relocate state offices,
facilities and institutions, shall specify that no contractor
performing thereunder shall pay any employee actually engaged in the
moving or handling of goods being relocated under such contract less
than the prevailing wage rate, except consideration may be given to
bids not conforming with these employee cost provisions in areas
where no such employee wage standards and conditions are reasonably
available. The term "prevailing wage rate," as used in this
subdivision, means the rate paid to a majority of workmen engaged in
the particular craft, classification or type of work within the
locality if a majority of such workmen be paid at a single rate; if
there be no single rate being paid to a majority, then the rate being
paid the greater number. The determination required by this
subdivision of wage rates prevailing in a given area shall be made by
the Department of Industrial Relations.
(c) The term "supporting personnel" for the purposes of this
chapter shall include all employees of a carrier who directly
participate in the actual moving and handling of goods.
The amendments to this section during the 1975-76 Regular Session,
shall not apply to any contract, including those that may be renewed
periodically, which affects the wage rates of supporting personnel
until the end of the renewal period or the end of the contract,
whichever first occurs.

14921. The director, subject to the State Civil Service Act, shall
appoint such personnel as is necessary to perform the following
duties:
(a) Watch the movements of all state freight.
(b) Audit all freight and other transportation bills involving
state shipments in order to determine the most advantageous and
economical shipping rates which can be secured via carrier or
carriers whose drivers and supporting personnel are operating under
current collective-bargaining agreements or who are maintaining the
prevailing wages, standards and conditions of employment for its
driver and supporting personnel employees and to determine what
refunds may be due the state on completed shipments.
(c) Furnish upon request from any state source the proper routing
and tariff description of a given shipment in order to assure the
state of the lowest applicable freight charge commensurate with the
provisions of Section 14920.
(d) Establish and maintain such files as may be necessary to
expedite shipments, secure special movements, trace and recover
strayed and delayed shipments, and divert and reconsign shipments.
(e) Perform such other duties as may be necessary to the efficient
discharge of the rate control function.
The amendments to this section during the 1975-76 Regular Session,
shall not apply to any contract, including those that may be renewed
periodically, which affects the wage rates of supporting personnel
until the end of the renewal period or the end of the contract,
whichever first occurs.

14922. Upon request of any state agency, the Director of General
Services may assign competent personnel to work directly with such
state agency at such locations as the agency shall designate in order
that such personnel shall become familiar with the particular
problems of such agency and that the purposes of this chapter can be
best accomplished.