California Government Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 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,...
• Section 14601.
  There is in the state government, in the Government Operations Agency, the Department of General Services.(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Sec. 292. (AB 1317)...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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.(Added by...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 security companies,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 14615.1.
  (a) 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...
• Section 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)...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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.(Added...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 consultation...
• Section 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,...
• Section 14630.
  (a) Upon its establishment, the California Crime Victims’ Memorial Foundation, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region, in...
• Section 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 All Veterans...
• Section 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 Capitol...
• Section 14633.
  (a) The Mervyn Dymally Memorial Capitol Foundation, upon establishment, may, in consultation with the Department of General Services, plan a bust of Mervyn Dymally to be...

Last modified: October 22, 2018