SECTIONS 4000-4007 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 4000-4007

4000. This chapter does not apply to maintenance work, work
occasioned by emergency, and work costing less than fifteen thousand
dollars ($15,000).

4001. As used in this chapter, "engineer" means the Director of
Transportation, the Director of Water Resources, the Director of
General Services, or a deputy or other person authorized by any such
officer, and every county engineer, county surveyor, county highway
engineer, road commissioner, city engineer, commissioner of public
works, superintendent of streets, harbor engineer, flood control
engineer, the engineer of any board or commission of the state, the
engineer of any board or commission of any city, and the engineer of
any reclamation, irrigation, or other district or political
subdivision or agency of the state.

4002. As used in this chapter, "public work" means the construction
of any bridge, road, street, highway, ditch, canal, dam, tunnel,
excavation, building or structure within the State by day's labor or
force account.

4003. The engineer directing, supervising or superintending the
construction, or in charge of the engineering work for or in
connection with public work shall keep an accurate account of the
cost of the public work.

4004. Prior to the commencement of the public work, the engineer
shall prepare and file in his office either full, complete and
accurate plans and specifications or a work authorization approved by
the engineer describing the work to be performed, and an estimate of
the cost thereof, except where other and adequate provision is made
by law requiring the preparation and filing of such plans,
specifications and estimates of cost by some other officer or in some
other office.

4005. Within 60 days from the completion of any public work, the
engineer shall prepare and file in the office of the clerk of the
board of supervisors of the county in which the public work is
performed, or if the engineer maintains an office in the county where
the work is performed, then in that office, or if any reclamation,
irrigation or other district maintains an office, then in the office
of his or her own district instead of the office of the clerk of the
board of supervisors, the following information in addition to that
required by Section 4004:
(a) Names of bidders with prices bid, if bids there be.
(b) Changes in adopted or approved plans and specifications or a
work authorization describing the work to be performed.
(c) That the work performed has or has not been done in accordance
with these plans and specifications or work authorization.
(d) The total cost of the work, segregated so as to show the
actual cost of all labor, materials, equipment, engineering or
architectural services, including the services of public employees in
connection with that work, and other expense. The cost shown for
equipment shall include rentals paid or, if the equipment is publicly
owned, a reasonable amount for depreciation and the cost of repairs
thereon while so used.

4006. Plans, specifications, work authorizations describing work to
be performed, and all other information referred to in this chapter
are open to inspection and examination as a public record.

4007. Every engineer who wilfully violates any of the provisions of
this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.