California Public Contract Code ARTICLE 27 - Legislative Bodies—Improvement Act of 1911

• Section 20410.
  The provisions of this article shall apply to contracts by legislative bodies for the doing of work or the furnishing of materials, supplies and equipment,...
• Section 20411.
  Before the legislative body awards any contract for doing any work or for furnishing materials, supplies and equipment or any portion thereof, authorized by this...
• Section 20412.
  Notice shall be posted inviting sealed proposals or bids for doing such work, or for furnishing materials, supplies and equipment or any portion thereof. Notice...
• Section 20413.
  All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder’s security:(a) Cash.(b) A cashier’s...
• Section 20414.
  The proposals or bids shall be delivered to the clerk, or any other officer designated by the legislative body, and the legislative body shall, in...
• Section 20415.
  The legislative body may reject any and all proposals or bids should it deem this for the public good, and also the bid of any...
• Section 20416.
  Whenever the total amount bid by the lowest responsible bidder plus the estimated amount of incidental costs would result in assessments under this division which...
• Section 20417.
  If the bids are rejected or no bids are received the legislative body may readvertise for proposals or bids for the performance of the work...
• Section 20418.
  The check or bond accompanying any proposal or bid which is accepted shall be held by the clerk until the contract for doing the work...
• Section 20419.
  If any local, state or national agency or authority contributes the labor, or labor and any portion of the materials, supplies or equipment necessary for...
• Section 20420.
  Notice of the award of the contract shall be published by the clerk.The clerk shall, upon payment of the statutory fee prescribed therefor, record a...
• Section 20421.
  The owners of three-fourths of the area of lands liable to be assessed, or their agents (who shall make oath that they are the owners...
• Section 20422.
  If the owners fail to elect to take the work, and to enter into a written contract therefor within 10 days, or to commence the...
• Section 20423.
  If the original bidder neglects, fails or refuses, for 25 days after the first publication of the notice of the award of the contract, to...
• Section 20424.
  If no bids are received in response to this second call for bids, the legislative body may again advertise for and receive bids under the...
• Section 20425.
  The bids of all persons and the election of all owners who have previously failed to enter into the contract shall be rejected in any...
• Section 20426.
  All contractors, contracting owners included, shall, at the time of executing any contract for the work, execute a bond to the satisfaction and approval of...
• Section 20427.
  At any time prior to publication and posting notice inviting bids, the legislative body by resolution, may determine that if the contractor, contracting owners included,...
• Section 20428.
  If the owner or contractor who may have taken any contract does not complete the work within the time limited in the contract, or within...
• Section 20429.
  Before being entitled to a contract, the bidder to whom the award was made, or the owners who have elected to take the contract, must...
• Section 20430.
  If the work is abandoned by the city before work is actually started or before any materials, supplies or equipment have been furnished or used,...
• Section 20431.
  At any time within 10 days from the date of the first publication of the notice of award of the contract, any owner of, or...
• Section 20432.
  All objections to any act or proceeding occurring prior to the time within which such objections are permitted to be filed in relation to the...
• Section 20433.
  If in the opinion of the legislative body the public interest will not be served by allowing the property owners to take the contract it...
• Section 20434.
  An action to determine the validity of proceedings relating to the work and the validity of any contract entered or to be entered into pursuant...
• Section 20435.
  In such action, all findings, conclusions and determinations of the legislative body which conducted the proceedings shall be conclusive in the absence of actual fraud.(Added...
• Section 20436.
  If an action is commenced under the provisions of this chapter to determine the validity of any contract or proposed contract, and the contract has...
• Section 20436.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the action authorized by this chapter shall not be brought by any person other than the legislative body or...
• Section 20437.
  The superintendent of streets is hereby authorized in his official capacity to make all written contracts, and to receive all bonds authorized by this division...
• Section 20438.
  He shall fix the time for the commencement, which shall not be more than 45 days from the date of the contract, and for the...
• Section 20439.
  He may extend the time fixed for completion of the work from time to time, under the direction of the legislative body. All applications for...
• Section 20440.
  The work, in all cases, shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the superintendent of streets and the materials used shall...
• Section 20441.
  The legislative body also may by resolution adopted within 10 days after the passage of the resolution ordering the work provide and direct that the...
• Section 20442.
  The contract shall contain express notice that, in no case, except where it is otherwise provided by law or by charter will the city, or...
• Section 20443.
  The legislative body may, by ordinance, prescribe general rules directing the superintendent of streets or the engineer, as the case may be, and the contractor...
• Section 20444.
  If any fiscal agent of the United States government contributes any money or materials to be used in the construction of any work provided for...
• Section 20445.
  If a contribution of labor or of labor and any portion of materials, supplies or equipment is to be made by any local, state or...
• Section 20446.
  “Changes” as used in this chapter shall include corrections, alterations, modifications, additions, omissions, increases or decreases.(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 465, Sec. 11.)
• Section 20447.
  Unless the power to proceed shall have ceased at the conclusion of the hearing on the resolution of intention because of a majority protest, at...
• Section 20448.
  At the hearing on the resolution of intention, the legislative body, without further notice and hearing, may order any changes, as defined in Sections 20446...
• Section 20449.
  Before ordering any changes made, the legislative body shall adopt a resolution briefly describing the changes proposed to be made, stating the amount of the...
• Section 20450.
  If a resolution required under Section 20449 proposes to include additional territory in the assessment district, at least 15 days prior to the hearing fixed...
• Section 20451.
  Written objections to the proposed changes may be filed with the clerk by any interested person at any time not later than the time set...
• Section 20452.
  (a) No changes, except as provided in Section 20453, shall be made pursuant to this chapter that will increase the estimated assessable cost by more than...
• Section 20453.
  Changes may exceed the 20-percent limitation in cost when the legislative body orders such changes. That portion of the added cost which exceeds the 20-percent...
• Section 20454.
  Any changes made pursuant to this chapter shall not release or discharge the sureties upon any bond required under this division.(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch....
• Section 20455.
  (a) After construction has begun, the legislative body, or the superintendent of streets if authorized by the legislative body, may order changes in the work without...
• Section 20456.
  Subject to the limitations of Section 20455, the contract may include a provision to determine a fair and equitable price for changes in the work,...
• Section 20457.
  Every contractor, to whom is awarded any contract for street work under this division, shall at the time of signing and executing the contract, file...
• Section 20458.
  The bond shall provide that the contractor or subcontractor shall pay for any materials, provisions, provender, or other supplies or use of implements or machinery...
• Section 20459.
  Any person furnishing materials, provisions, provender or other supplies used in, upon, for or about the performance of the work contracted to be executed or...
• Section 20460.
  Each person whose claim has not been paid by the contractor or his subcontractors, shall have a first lien upon and against the assessment, any...
• Section 20461.
  No assignment by the contractor of the whole or any part of the money, assessment, partial assessment, any reassessment and any bonds which may be...
• Section 20462.
  If any contractor disputes the correctness or validity of any claim filed pursuant to this chapter, the city or superintendent of streets may permit the...
• Section 20463.
  The bond shall guarantee the payment of any sum which the claimant may recover on the claim together with his costs of suit in the...
• Section 20464.
  Suit against the sureties on the bond of the contractor filed pursuant to this chapter may be brought by any claimant, or his assigns, at...

Last modified: October 22, 2018