Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4000. Section 4000.
This chapter does not apply to maintenance work, work occasioned by emergency, and work costing less than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
CHAPTER 1. Cost Records to be Kept [4000. - 4007.]
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in effectCal. Government Code - GOV § 4001. Section 4001.
As used in this chapter, “engineer” means the Director of Transportation, the Director of Water Resources, the Director of General Services, or a deputy or other person authorized by any such officer, and every county engineer, county surveyor, county highway engineer, road commissioner, city engineer, commissioner of public works, superintendent of streets, harbor engineer, flood control engineer, the engineer of any board or commission of the state, the engineer of any board or commission of any city, and the engineer of any reclamation, irrigation, or other district or political subdivision or agency of the state.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4002. Section 4002.
As used in this chapter, “public work” means the construction of any bridge, road, street, highway, ditch, canal, dam, tunnel, excavation, building or structure within the State by day’s labor or force account.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4003. Section 4003.
The engineer directing, supervising or superintending the construction, or in charge of the engineering work for or in connection with public work shall keep an accurate account of the cost of the public work.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4004. Section 4004.
Prior to the commencement of the public work, the engineer shall prepare and file in his office either full, complete and accurate plans and specifications or a work authorization approved by the engineer describing the work to be performed, and an estimate of the cost thereof, except where other and adequate provision is made by law requiring the preparation and filing of such plans, specifications and estimates of cost by some other officer or in some other office.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4005. Section 4005.
Within 60 days from the completion of any public work, the engineer shall prepare and file in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county in which the public work is performed, or if the engineer maintains an office in the county where the work is performed, then in that office, or if any reclamation, irrigation or other district maintains an office, then in the office of his or her own district instead of the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors, the following information in addition to that required by Section 4004:
(a)
Names of bidders with prices bid, if bids there be.
(b)
Changes in adopted or approved plans and specifications or a work authorization describing the work to be performed.
(c)
That the work performed has or has not been done in accordance with these plans and specifications or work authorization.
(d)
The total cost of the work, segregated so as to show the actual cost of all labor, materials, equipment, engineering or architectural services, including the services of public employees in connection with that work, and other expense. The cost shown for equipment shall include rentals paid or, if the equipment is publicly owned, a reasonable amount for depreciation and the cost of repairs thereon while so used.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4006. Section 4006.
Plans, specifications, work authorizations describing work to be performed, and all other information referred to in this chapter are open to inspection and examination as a public record.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 4007. Section 4007.
Every engineer who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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