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2005 California Government Code Sections 14600-14627 CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
GOVERNMENT CODESECTION 14600-14627
14600. The Legislature declares that a centralization of business management functions and services of state government is necessary to take advantage of specialized techniques and skills, provide uniform management practices, and to insure a continuing high level of efficiency and economy. A Department of General Services is created to provide centralized services including, but not limited to, planning, acquisition, construction, and maintenance of state buildings and property; purchasing; printing; architectural services; administrative hearings; and accounting services. The Department of General Services shall develop and enforce policy and procedures and shall institute or cause the institution of those investigations and proceedings as it deems proper to assure effective operation of all functions performed by the department and to conserve the rights and interests of the state. 14601. There is in the state government, in the State and Consumer Services Agency, the Department of General Services. 14602. The Department of General Services is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services. As used in this part, "department" and "director" refer to the Department of General Services and the Director of General Services, respectively, unless the context otherwise requires. 14603. The Director of General Services is appointed by and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor. The appointment of the director is subject to confirmation by the Senate. The annual salary of the director is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of this code. 14604. Commencing no later than August 1, 2005, and no later than August 1 annually thereafter, the Department of General Services shall submit to the Department of Finance a proposal that reconciles the current fiscal year rates for service fees charged by the Department of General Services to state agencies, and details any adjustments proposed for budget fiscal year rates to be included in the Governor's Budget. 14605. The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by law in the office. 14606. Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 applies to the director and the director is the head of a department within the meaning of the chapter. 14607. For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor, in the manner that he deems necessary properly to segregate and conduct the work of the department. The director may arrange and classify the work of the department and with the approval of the Governor may create such divisions and subdivisions as may be necessary, and change or abolish them from time to time. 14608. Whenever any statute requires by the use of the word or words "approve," "approval," "authorize," or "authorization," the director of the department to approve or authorize any act or transaction, the approval or authorization shall be deemed to have been given only if given in writing by the director, the deputy director, or by some other officer or employee of the department acting pursuant to written authority of the director. The term "in writing" includes a secured electronic signature, whereby an electronically produced document may be signed electronically by the authorized signatory who possesses a secured electronic password available only to the signatory or his or her designee. 14610. Notwithstanding Section 11043, the department may employ such persons as are necessary to provide house legal counsel for the department. These persons may advise the director, officers, employees, boards, commissions, and offices of the department concerning legal affairs of the department. The official legal adviser concerning the department's interdepartmental powers, functions, and relationships with other departments is the Attorney General. House legal counsel for the department when authorized by the Attorney General may represent the department and the state in litigation concerning affairs of the department. 14611. The department may prepare, publish, and issue such printed pamphlets and bulletins as the director deems necessary for the dissemination of information to the public concerning the activities of the department. Funds available for support of the department may, with the approval of the Department of Finance, be used to pay the cost of preparation, publication, and distribution. 14612. (a) The department shall commit itself to achieve improved levels of performance, as specified in this section, by focusing its efforts on enhancing the value of the services it delivers. (b) The department shall commit itself to providing both of the following: (1) Services that the Legislature or Governor requires state agencies to purchase from the department. (2) Services that state agencies are not required to purchase from the department, but that the department can provide on a cost-competitive basis. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director or his or her designee, in lieu of the Director of Finance, may approve DGS Form 22 and DGS Form 220, including the extension of time to expend transferred funds, the transfer of funds from one work order to another, and the Return of Funds Document. (d) Notwithstanding Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 13940) of Part 4, the director or his or her designee may approve "relief from accountability" for debts owed to the department up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) when the department determines it cannot collect the debts or when the cost of collection exceeds the amount of the debt. (e) Notwithstanding Section 2807 of the Penal Code, the director or his or her designee may procure goods from the private sector even though the goods may be available from the Prison Industry Authority, when in his or her discretion, it is cost beneficial to do so and if the director or his or her designee continues to include the authority in soliciting quotations for goods. (f) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 948 and Section 965, the director or his or her designee, in lieu of the Director of Finance, may certify funds for payment of all legal settlements and tort claims for which the department already has sufficient expenditure authority and funds without the need for augmentation. (g) Notwithstanding Section 965.2, the director or his or her designee, in lieu of the Director of Finance, may certify funds for payment for all legal court settlements for projects funded from the Architecture Revolving Fund, if a sufficient fund balance exists in the work order to pay the claim and the payment does not require a budget augmentation to complete the project. (h) Notwithstanding Section 14957, the director or his or her designee, in lieu of the Director of Finance, may approve the deposit of checks directly into the Architecture Revolving Fund. The department shall notify the Department of Finance within 30 days of the date that the department makes such a deposit. 14612.2. (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14850) of Part 5.5 of Division 3 of Title 2 of, or Section 14901 of, the Government Code, no agency is required to use the Office of State Publishing for its printing needs and the Office of State Publishing may offer printing services to both state and other public agencies, including cities, counties, special districts, community college districts, the California State University, the University of California, and agencies of the United States government. When soliciting bids for printing services from the private sector, all state agencies shall also solicit a bid from the Office of State Publishing when the project is anticipated to cost more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). (b) This section shall remain operative only until the effective date of the Budget Act of 2006 or July 1, 2006, whichever is later, and as of January 1, 2007, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2007, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed. 14612.5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for state printing procurement purposes, printing is not considered a personal service contract as defined in Section 19130. 14613. (a) The Governor may appoint the person, who, on the date of the transfer of the California State Police Division to the Department of the California Highway Patrol, is serving as the Chief of the California State Police Division, to the position of Deputy Chief within the Department of the California Highway Patrol for a period of 12 months. The position has the powers of a peace officer as defined in Section 830.2 of the Penal Code. The authorization for this position of Deputy Chief expires 12 months after the effective date of the Governor's appointment. The Governor shall notify the Secretary of State of the effective date of that appointment. (b) This section shall remain in effect only until 12 months after the effective date of the appointment described in subdivision (a) and as of that date is repealed. 14613.5. The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall present to the host agency or family member designated by the host agency of any peace officer who is killed in the line of duty in California, the flag that was flown at half-staff over the State Capitol Building in memory of the officer and a memorial certificate. 14613.7. (a) Each state agency that is protected by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, those state agencies currently being protected by contract private security companies, or those state agencies currently under contract with a local governmental law enforcement agency for general law enforcement services, excluding all current mutual aid agreements, shall, as soon as practical, report to the Department of the California Highway Patrol all crimes and criminally caused property damage on state-owned or state-leased property where state employees are discharging their duties. This section shall not apply to incidents that result in the filing of Incidence Memoranda issued by the Parole Divisions of the Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority. (b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall compile the information received pursuant to subdivision (a) and shall report to the Legislature, as necessary, on the status of criminal activity on state-owned and leased properties as specified in subdivision (a). 14614. The director and the civil executive officers of the department have the powers of a peace officer in all parts of the state in enforcing any lawful order of the department. 14615. (a) The department has general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the state in regard to the duties, powers, responsibilities, and jurisdiction specifically vested in the department. Whenever the department deems it necessary, or at the instance of the Governor, it shall institute or cause the institution of those investigations and proceedings as it deems proper to conserve the rights and interests of the state. (b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol has jurisdiction over those matters related to the security of state officers, property, and occupants of state property. The Department of the California Highway Patrol may also assist the department in the department's investigations conducted pursuant to subdivision (a). 14615.1. Where the Legislature directs or authorizes the department to maintain, develop, or prescribe processes, procedures, or policies in connection with the administration of its duties under this chapter, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 14650), or Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, the action by the department shall be exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500)). This section shall apply to actions taken by the department with respect to the State Administrative Manual and the State Contracting Manual. 14616. The director may exempt from his or her approval or from approval of the department any transactions involving not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for which such approval is required by statute whenever, in his or her judgment, such exemption is appropriate and in the best interests of the state. Written notice of exemptions shall be given to the Controller. 14617. The Office of the State Architect and the California Building Standards Commission, in consultation with offices and divisions within the Department of General Services, and with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, shall jointly adopt regulations in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations to establish a standard of lighting for parking lots at the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges. This standard shall be adopted and submitted to the California Building Standards Commission for approval on or before June 30, 1991, and published by the commission in the 1992 triennial publication of the California Building Code. The Office of the State Architect shall also adopt regulations in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations to establish the Illumination Engineering Society Handbook recommendations as the standard lighting level for primary campus walkways used at night at the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges. These regulations shall be adopted and submitted to the California Building Standards Commission for approval on or before June 30, 1991, and published by the commission in the 1992 triennial publication of the California Building Code. This section shall not apply to the University of California unless the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, makes it applicable. 14618. The Department of General Services may require from all agencies of the state permitted or charged by law with the handling of public money or its equivalent, financial and statistical reports, duly verified, covering the period of each fiscal year. When necessary, the department may require special reports from any such state agency. These special reports shall be filed with the department without delay. 14619. The Department of General Services may examine all records, files, documents, accounts, and all financial affairs of every agency mentioned in Section 14618. It may enter any public office or institution in this state and examine any records, files, books, papers or documents contained therein or belonging thereto for the purpose of making such examination. Every state agency shall permit such examination and upon demand shall produce without unnecessary delay all books, contracts, and papers in its offices, and furnish information touching books, papers, contracts, and other matters pertaining to the agency. 14620. There is in the department a general services planning officer, a procurement officer, and an executive officer of the Office of Public School Construction. Each officer or executive director may be appointed by the Governor, upon recommendation of the director, and shall serve at the pleasure of the director. His or her salary shall be fixed by the director in accordance with law. Each officer or executive officer shall have any duties that may be assigned to him or her by, and shall be responsible to, the director for the performance of those duties. It is the intent of the Legislature that this section is not to result in an increase in the number of positions in the department. 14621. The department has the possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, money, funds, appropriations, land and other property, real or personal, held for the benefit or use of state agencies within the department. 14622. The director may make available to elected state officials, without charge, state parking facilities for the parking of the privately owned cars of such officials. 14623. The department shall engage competent artists to paint oil portraits of all Governors of California whose portraits have not been painted, and a portrait of each Governor upon his retirement from office. The portraits shall be framed and hung in appropriate places in the State Capitol. 14624. The department may render advisory, investigational, or other similar service to any city, county, district or any other political subdivision of the state, or to the federal government upon such terms and conditions as may be satisfactory to the director. 14625. The director may require any person who has charge of, handles or has access to any state property to file an official bond in an amount to be fixed by him. 14627. With the approval of the department, state agencies may install and operate toll-free telephone lease lines to provide access by the public and local governmental agencies. The department shall adopt guidelines for the use of toll-free lease lines by state agencies as are necessary to promote the efficient use thereof. Following approval of the department, the toll-free telephone number shall be published at least once in the California Regulatory Notice Register. The information which is made available on toll-free lease lines shall be accessible by both tone dial and rotary dial telephones.
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