SECTIONS 12300-12306 - California Statutes

PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE

SECTION 12300-12306

12300. Unless otherwise provided, this chapter shall apply to all
purchases made on behalf of the Legislature, whether made by the
Senate Committee on Rules, the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Joint
Rules Committee, or any other agency of the Legislature.

12301. The following definitions govern the interpretation of this
chapter:
(a) "Department" means the Department of General Services.
(b) "Board" means the California Integrated Waste Management
Board, as defined pursuant to Section 40110 of the Public Resources
Code.
(c) "Recycled paper product" means all paper and woodpulp products
containing postconsumer and secondary materials. "Postconsumer
material" means a finished material that would normally be disposed
of as a solid waste, having completed its life cycle as a consumer
item. "Secondary material" means fragments of finished products or
finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a
virgin resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes
postconsumer material, but does not include fibrous waste generated
during the manufacturing process such as fibers recovered from
wastewater or trimmings of paper machine rolls (mill broke), wood
slabs, chips, sawdust, or other wood residue from a manufacturing
process. "Recycled paper product" means a paper product with not less
than 50 percent, by fiber weight, consisting of secondary and
postconsumer material with not less than 10 percent of fiber weight
consisting of postconsumer material.
For high speed copier paper, offset paper, forms bond, computer
printout paper, carbonless paper, file folders, white wove envelopes,
and for other uncoated printing and writing papers, such as writing
and office paper, book paper, cotton fiber paper containing 25 to 75
percent cotton fiber, and cover stock, the minimum content standard
shall be no less than 20 percent of fiber weight of postconsumer
materials beginning December 31, 1994. The minimum content standard
shall be increased to 30 percent of fiber weight of postconsumer
materials beginning on December 31, 1998.
(d) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), "recycled product"
means all materials, goods, and supplies, excluding paper products,
no less than 50 percent of the total weight of which consists of
secondary and postconsumer material with not less than 10 percent of
its total weight consisting of postconsumer material. A recycled
product shall include any product that could have been disposed of as
solid waste having completed its life cycle as a consumer item, but
otherwise is refurbished for reuse without substantial alteration of
its form. "Postconsumer material" means a finished material that
would have been disposed of as a solid waste, having completed its
life cycle as a consumer item, and does not include manufacturing
wastes. "Secondary material" means fragments of finished products or
finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a
resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes
postconsumer material, but does not include excess virgin resources
of the manufacturing process.
(2) "Recycled product" also means other flat rolled steel products
no less than 25 percent of the total weight of which consists of
secondary and postconsumer material, with not less than 10 percent of
total weight consisting of postconsumer material. Products made with
flat rolled steel meeting these content percentages include, but are
not limited to, automobiles, cans, appliances, and office furniture
and supplies.

12305. This chapter applies to the procurement and purchase of the
following materials, goods, and supplies, or products containing the
following recycled resources, and meeting the specified content
requirements pursuant to either subdivision (c) or (d) of Section
12301, whichever is applicable:
(a) Paper products, that include, but are not limited to, fine
grades of paper, corrugated boxes, newsprint, tissue, and toweling.
(b) Glass.
(c) Oil.
(d) Plastic.
(e) Solvents and paint, including water-based paint.
(f) Tires.
(g) Steel.
(h) Antifreeze.

12305.5. If a recycled product costs more than the same product
made with virgin material, the Legislature shall purchase fewer of
those more costly products or apply cost savings, if any, gained from
buying other recycled products towards the purchase of those more
costly products.

12306. This chapter does not apply to the procurement and purchase
of asphalt concrete and portland cement concrete pavement.