SECTIONS 4300-4305 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 4300-4305

4300. As used in this article:
(a) "United States" means the United States of America, and
includes any Territory or insular possession of the United States.
(b) "Produced" includes mined and manufactured.
(c) "Materials" includes articles and supplies.

4301. This article does not apply to materials which are of a class
or kind which are not, or which are manufactured from materials
which are not, produced in the United States, nor to key-driven
calculators manufactured in branch plants located outside continental
United States, but which plants are wholly owned and operated by a
corporation the majority of whose stock is owned or controlled by an
American manufacturer whose principal manufacturing centers and home
offices are located in the United States.

4302. This article does not apply to medical and surgical
instruments, scientific equipment, microscopes, lenses, or
instruments used for scientific or medical purposes, including
research.

4302.5. The provisions of this article do not apply to the purchase
of sewing machines, regardless of the place of their manufacture or
the source of the materials from which such machines were
manufactured.

4302.6. The provisions of this article do not apply to the purchase
of printing presses of rotary gripper system or single revolution
design, which are purchased exclusively for use in schools and
colleges for educational purposes; provided, however, that if
printing presses of rotary gripper system or single revolution design
are manufactured within the United States that only such presses as
are manufactured in the United States shall be purchased.

4303. The governing body of any political subdivision, municipal
corporation, or district, and any public officer or person charged
with the letting of contracts for (1) the construction, alteration,
or repair of public works or (2) for the purchasing of materials for
public use, shall let such contracts only to persons who agree to use
or supply only such unmanufactured materials as have been produced
in the United States, and only such manufactured materials as have
been manufactured in the United States, substantially all from
materials produced in the United States.

4303.5. Any provision of this article to the contrary
notwithstanding, any such body or person may let a contract for the
purchase of office machines or supplies therefor without regard to
the place of their manufacture or the source of the materials from
which such machines or supplies are manufactured, except that such
contracts or purchases shall be subject to the provisions of Section
4334.

4304. Every contract for the construction, alteration or repair of
public works or for the purchase of materials for public use shall
contain a provision that only unmanufactured materials produced in
the United States, and only manufactured materials manufactured in
the United States, substantially all from materials produced in the
United States shall be used in the performance of the contract.
Any person who fails to comply with such provision shall not be
awarded any contract to which this article applies for a period of
three years from the date of the violation.

4305. The name of the person failing to comply, together with a
report of the facts constituting the violation, shall be posted by
the governing board or person who let the contract in at least three
public places in the county in which the contract was made.