2011 California Code
Government Code
TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [8000 - 22980]
ARTICLE 2.5. Provisions Applicable to Appropriations of Funds
Section 13332.09

(a) No purchase order or other form of documentation for acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles shall be issued against any appropriation until the Department of General Services has investigated and established the necessity therefor.

(b) A state agency may not acquire surplus mobile equipment from any source for program support until the Department of General Services has investigated and established the necessity therefor.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all contracts for the acquisition of motor vehicles or general use mobile equipment for a state agency shall be made by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services. Pursuant to Section 10298 of the Public Contract Code, the Department of General Services may collect a fee to offset the cost of the services provided.

(d) All passenger-type motor vehicles purchased for state officers and employees, except constitutional officers, shall be American-made vehicles of the light class, as defined by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, unless excepted by the Director of General Services on the basis of unusual requirements, including, but not limited to, use by the California Highway Patrol, that would justify the need for a motor vehicle of a heavier class.

(e) No general use mobile equipment having an original purchase price of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more shall be rented or leased from a nonstate source and payment therefor made from any appropriation for the use of the Department of Transportation, without the prior approval of the Department of General Services after a determination that comparable state-owned equipment is not available, unless obtaining approval would endanger life or property, in which case the transaction and the justification for not having sought prior approval shall be reported immediately thereafter to the Department of General Services.

(f) As used in this section:

(1) General use mobile equipment means equipment that is listed in the Mobile Equipment Inventory of the State Equipment Council and that is capable of being used by more than one state agency, and shall not be deemed to refer to equipment having a practical use limited to the controlling state agency only. Section 575 of the Vehicle Code shall have no application to this section.

(2) State agency means a state agency, as defined pursuant to Section 11000, and each campus of the California State University. The University of California is requested and encouraged to have the Department of General Services perform the tasks identified in this section with respect to the acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles by the University of California.

(g) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2012.

(Repealed (in Sec. 3) and added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 679, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2008. Section operative July 1, 2012, by its own provisions.)