SECTIONS 4330-4334 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 4330-4334

4330. As used in this article, "supplies" includes goods, wares,
merchandise, manufactures, and produce.

4331. Price, fitness and quality being equal, any body, officer, or
other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or authorized
to purchase supplies for the use of the State, or of any of its
institutions or offices, or for the use of any county or city shall
always prefer supplies grown, manufactured, or produced in the State,
and shall next prefer supplies partially manufactured, grown, or
produced in the State.

4332. All State, county, or city officers, all bodies, and other
persons charged with advertising for supplies shall state in their
advertisement that such preferences for California-made supplies will
be made.

4333. In any advertisement for supplies no bid shall be asked for
any article of a specific brand or mark nor any patent apparatus or
appliances, when such requirement would prevent proper competition on
the part of dealers in other articles of equal value, utility, or
merit.

4334. Public officers and bodies charged with the letting of
contracts for public work, with the construction of public bridges,
buildings and other structures, or with the purchase of supplies for
any public use may give such contracts and purchase such supplies
from persons manufacturing in the State the supplies to be used
pursuant to contract or the supplies to be purchased if:
(a) The bids of such persons, or the prices quoted by them, do not
exceed by more than 5 per cent the lowest bids or prices quoted by
persons manufacturing the supplies outside the State.
(b) The major portion of the work of manufacturing the supplies is
not done outside the State.
(c) In the opinion of the public officers or bodies, the public
good will be served thereby.