CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.

§§ 14600–14638.1 · 43 sections

§ 14600 The Legislature declares that a centralization of business management functions and services of state government is necessary to take advantage of specialized…
§ 14601 There is in the state government, in the Government Operations 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”…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 14605 The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 14610 Notwithstanding Section 11043, the department may employ such persons as are necessary to provide house legal counsel for the department. These persons may…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 14612.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for state printing procurement purposes, printing is not considered a personal service contract as defined in…
§ 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…
§ 14613.7 Each state agency that is protected by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, those state agencies currently being protected by contract private…
§ 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…
§ 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,…
§ 14615.1 (a) Where the Legislature directs or authorizes the department to maintain, develop, or prescribe processes, procedures, or policies in connection with the…
§ 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)…
§ 14617 The Office of the State Architect and the California Building Standards Commission, in consultation with offices and divisions within the Department of General…
§ 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,…
§ 14619 The Department of General Services may examine all records, files, documents, accounts, and all financial affairs of every agency mentioned in Section 14618.…
§ 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.…
§ 14621 The department has the possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, money, funds, appropriations, land and other…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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.
§ 14626 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in order to comply with applicable federal and state requirements, the Department of General Services may conduct criminal…
§ 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…
§ 14628 (a) The California State Sheriffs Search and Rescue Coordinators, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region, in…
§ 14629 (a) The Military Order of the Purple Heart, Capitol Chapter 385, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region, in…
§ 14630 (a) Upon its establishment, the California Crime Victims’ Memorial Foundation, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol…
§ 14631 (a) The American Portuguese Club Incorporated, or any successor entity, may, in consultation with the department, plan and construct a memorial in the existing…
§ 14632 (a) The Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation may, in consultation with the Department of General Services, plan a statue of Ronald Reagan in the State…
§ 14633 (a) The Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute may, in consultation with the Department of General Services, plan a bust of Mervyn…
§ 14634 (a) Tribal nations in the Sacramento, California, region, in consultation with the Department of General Services, may plan, construct, and maintain a monument…
§ 14635 (a) A recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization representing Gold Star Families, in consultation with the Department of General Services, may plan,…
§ 14635.5 (a) A recognized nonprofit organization that is tax exempt pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and that represents blind veterans, in…
§ 14636 (a) A recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization representing veterans of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait, in consultation with the Department of…
§ 14637 (a) A recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization representing victims and survivors of communism, in consultation with the Department of General Services, may…
§ 14638 (a) (1) A recognized nonprofit organization that is tax exempt pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and that represents Mexican…
§ 14638.1 (a) In addition to the authority contained in Section 14638, a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants may propose to…