SECTIONS 15800-15806 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 15800-15806

15800. This part is known and may be cited as the "State Building
Construction Act of 1955."

15801. No public building shall be acquired or constructed under
this part, unless authorized by a separate act or appropriation
enacted by the Legislature.

15802. The following terms whenever used in this part have the
meanings given in this section except where the context clearly
indicates otherwise:
(a) "Board" means the State Public Works Board.
(b) "Construction" includes the extension, enlargement, repair,
renovation, restoration, improvement, furnishing, and equipping of
any public building.
(c) "Public building" includes any structure, building, facility,
or work that a state agency has jurisdiction of, or is authorized to
design or construct, including, but not limited to, infrastructure,
parking lots, landscaping, and other ancillary facilities, including
furnishings and equipment, incidental to the use of any building, and
also includes the site thereof, and any easements or rights of way
appurtenant thereto or necessary for its full use.
(d) "Acquire" includes purchase, condemnation, lease, and gift.
(e) "Cost of a public building" includes, but is not limited to,
the cost of all real estate, properties, rights, and easements
acquired, the cost of construction of public buildings and the
furnishing and equipment of them, all financing charges, interest
prior to, during and for a period of six months after construction,
engineering, architects' and legal expenses, including the cost of
plans, specifications, and surveys, estimates of cost and revenues,
administrative expenses, and such other expenses as are necessary or
incident to the financing of public buildings, or to determine the
feasibility or practicability of any public buildings, and the
condemnation of property necessary for use of, or in connection with,
any public building.
(f) "Property" includes all property, real, personal or mixed,
tangible or intangible, or any interest therein necessary or
desirable for carrying out the purposes of this part.
(g) "State agency" includes any state office, officer, department,
division, bureau, board, commission, organization, or agency
including, without limitation, the University of California, the
California State University, the California Community Colleges, and
the Judicial Council.

15803. This part provides an additional and alternative method for
doing the things authorized herein and shall be regarded as
supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws and
shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing.

15806. The state office building and garage in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, bounded by First Street on the
northerly side, Broadway Street on the easterly side, Second Street
on the southerly side, and Hill Street on the westerly side, shall be
named and shall be known hereafter as the Jun