California Public Contract Code CHAPTER 4 - Subletting and Subcontracting

• Section 4100.
  This chapter may be cited as the “Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act.”(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 42.1.)
• Section 4101.
  The Legislature finds that the practices of bid shopping and bid peddling in connection with the construction, alteration, and repair of public improvements often result...
• Section 4103.
  Nothing in this chapter limits or diminishes any rights or remedies, either legal or equitable, which:(a) An original or substituted subcontractor may have against the prime...
• Section 4104.
  Any officer, department, board, or commission taking bids for the construction of any public work or improvement shall provide in the specifications prepared for the...
• Section 4104.5.
  (a) The officer, department, board, or commission taking bids for construction of any public work or improvement shall specify in the bid invitation and public notice...
• Section 4105.
  Circumvention by a general contractor who bids as a prime contractor of the requirement under Section 4104 for him or her to list his or...
• Section 4106.
  If a prime contractor fails to specify a subcontractor or if a prime contractor specifies more than one subcontractor for the same portion of work...
• Section 4107.
  A prime contractor whose bid is accepted may not:(a) Substitute a person as subcontractor in place of the subcontractor listed in the original bid, except that...
• Section 4107.2.
  No subcontractor listed by a prime contractor under Section 4104 as furnishing and installing carpeting, shall voluntarily sublet his or her subcontract with respect to...
• Section 4107.5.
  The prime contractor as a condition to assert a claim of inadvertent clerical error in the listing of a subcontractor shall within two working days...
• Section 4107.7.
  If a contractor who enters into a contract with a public entity for investigation, removal or remedial action, or disposal relative to the release or...
• Section 4108.
  (a)  It shall be the responsibility of each subcontractor submitting bids to a prime contractor to be prepared to submit a faithful performance and payment...
• Section 4109.
  Subletting or subcontracting of any portion of the work in excess of one-half of 1 percent of the prime contractor’s total bid as to which...
• Section 4110.
  A prime contractor violating any of the provisions of this chapter violates his or her contract and the awarding authority may exercise the option, in...
• Section 4111.
  Violation of this chapter by a licensee under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code constitutes grounds...
• Section 4112.
  The failure on the part of a contractor to comply with any provision of this chapter does not constitute a defense to the contractor in...
• Section 4113.
  As used in this chapter, the word “subcontractor” shall mean a contractor, within the meaning of the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000)...
• Section 4114.
  The county board of supervisors, when it is the awarding authority, may delegate its functions under Sections 4107 and 4110 to any officer designated by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018