SECTIONS 22000-22003 - California Statutes

PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE

SECTION 22000-22003

22000. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform
Public Construction Cost Accounting Act."

22001. The Legislature finds and declares that there is a statewide
need to promote uniformity of the cost accounting standards and
bidding procedures on construction work performed or contracted by
public entities in the state. This chapter provides for the
development of cost accounting standards and an alternative method
for the bidding of public works projects by public entities.

22001.5. On or before January 1, 2009, the Controller shall send a
notice to all public agencies describing the provisions of this
chapter and the benefits of using its provisions. This notice shall
also be included in any notification issued by the Controller
pursuant to Section 22020.

22002. (a) "Public agency," for purposes of this chapter, means a
city, county, city and county, including chartered cities and
chartered counties, any special district, and any other agency of the
state for the local performance of governmental or proprietary
functions within limited boundaries. "Public agency" also includes a
nonprofit transit corporation wholly owned by a public agency and
formed to carry out the purposes of the public agency.
(b) "Representatives of the construction industry" for purposes of
this chapter, means a general contractor, subcontractor, or labor
representative with experience in the field of public works
construction.
(c) "Public project" means any of the following:
(1) Construction, reconstruction, erection, alteration,
renovation, improvement, demolition, and repair work involving any
publicly owned, leased, or operated facility.
(2) Painting or repainting of any publicly owned, leased, or
operated facility.
(3) In the case of a publicly owned utility system, "public
project" shall include only the construction, erection, improvement,
or repair of dams, reservoirs, powerplants, and electrical
transmission lines of 230,000 volts and higher.
(d) "Public project" does not include maintenance work. For
purposes of this section, "maintenance work" includes all of the
following:
(1) Routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or
protection of any publicly owned or publicly operated facility for
its intended purposes.
(2) Minor repainting.
(3) Resurfacing of streets and highways at less than one inch.
(4) Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming,
pruning, planting, replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation
and sprinkler systems.
(5) Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain publicly owned
water, power, or waste disposal systems, including, but not limited
to, dams, reservoirs, powerplants, and electrical transmission lines
of 230,000 volts and higher.
(e) For purposes of this chapter, "facility" means any plant,
building, structure, ground facility, utility system, subject to the
limitation found in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c), real property,
streets and highways, or other public work improvement.

22003. A public agency which has, by resolution, elected to become
subject to the uniform construction cost accounting procedures set
forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 22010), may utilize the
bidding procedures set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section
22030) when contracting for "maintenance work," as defined in Section
22002, or when contracting for any other work which does not fall
within the definition of "public project," as defined in Section
22002.