Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The Department of General Services and its director succeed to and are vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, or its executive officer, under the following statutes…

Notwithstanding Section 13900, whenever the term “California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board,” the term “California Victim Compensation Boards,” or the term “State Board of Control” appears in any statute, regulation, contract, or any other code with respect to th…

The Department of General Services may assign any matter related to the statutory powers and duties of the Department of General Services described in Section 14659 to the Office of Risk and Insurance Management or to any other state office.

The evidence in any investigation, inquiry, or hearing may be taken by the Department of General Services or, on its behalf, by the office designated for that purpose. Every finding, opinion, and order, made pursuant to an investigation, inquiry, or hearing, when approved or conf…

The Office of Risk and Insurance Management, any state office designated pursuant to Section 14659.02, or their designees shall keep a full and true record of all proceedings, issue all necessary process, writs, warrants, and notices, and perform those other duties described in S…

The Director of General Services, the Office of Risk and Insurance Management, any state office designated pursuant to Section 14659.02, or their designees may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and production of pa…

The Department of General Services, the Office of Risk and Insurance Management, any state office designated pursuant to Section 14659.02, or their designees may administer oaths, examine witnesses, issue subpoenas, and receive evidence under such rules and regulations, pursuant …

The Department of General Services shall have a seal, bearing the following inscription: “Department of General Services.” The seal shall be fixed to all writs and authentications of copies of records and to other instruments that the department directs.

The department may adopt regulations pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3: (a) Limiting the amount, time, and place of expenses and allowances to be paid to elected state officers, and officers and employees of the state provided for in …

The department may approve plans for payroll deduction from the salaries or wages of state officers and employees under subdivision (f) of Section 1151 for charitable contributions to the agency handling the principal combined fund drive in any area. The department shall establis…

The department shall take any and all necessary steps to ensure that all claims that have been approved by the department, and for which there exists no legally available appropriation, are submitted for legislative approval at least once during each calendar year.

The director may acquire title to real property in the name of the state whenever the acquisition of real property is authorized or contemplated by law, if no other state agency is specifically authorized and directed to acquire it. However, after January 1, 1980, if the property…

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 14669, the Director of General Services, on behalf of the state, may enter into an agreement to convert an existing lease or leases for real property located in the City of Sacramento into a lease-purchase agreement for the purpose o…

Whenever by statutory enactment or operation of law, a state agency is abolished or ceases to function, the control and possession of its assets, unless otherwise provided by law, shall vest in the Department of General Services for such use or disposition as the department may d…

The Director of General Services may acquire any easements or rights-of-way which the director determines to be necessary for the proper utilization of real property owned or being acquired by the state. This section does not apply to land, easements, or rights-of-way to be acqui…

In any agreement entered into whereby the state obtains a grant of easement, lease, license, right-of-way, or right of entry (including without limitation, a right-of-way, or right of entry on or over property of any railroad), the state agency or its director entering into the a…

With the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may establish boundaries between property of the state held in proprietary capacity and property in private ownership, and execute and accept in behalf and in the name of the state instruments necessary to the establish…

(a) The director may execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state, whenever the sale or exchange of real property is authorized or contemplated by law, if no other state agency is specifically authorized and directed to execute t…

With the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state to the United States of America in exchange for lands of the latter or for such other considerations, as the director d…

With the approval of the state agency concerned, the director may grant and convey in the name of the state, easements and rights-of-way across real property belonging to the state not used for highway rights-of-way or high-speed rail rights-of-way, for those purposes and upon th…

(a) With the approval of the state agency concerned, the director shall negotiate in the name of the state, access to state-owned property, not used for highway or high-speed rail purposes, for those purposes and subject to those conditions, limitations, restrictions, and reserva…

(a) The director shall, within 120 days of the operative date of this section, compile and maintain an inventory of state-owned real property that may be available for lease to providers of wireless telecommunications services for location of wireless telecommunications facilitie…

With the approval of the state agency concerned, the director may quitclaim, in the name of the state, the right, title, and interest of the state in and to easements and rights-of-way owned by the state, other than those acquired for highway purposes or for high-speed rail purpo…

Notwithstanding Section 14616, the director may exempt from the director’s approval, or from the approval of the department, any state real estate acquisition or conveyance involving not more than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for which approval is required by s…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for approximately one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in road, street, and other improvements and for reasonable administrative fees, upon the terms, conditions, reservations, and exceptions that are in the best inter…

With the approval of the Governor, the director may by executive order withdraw from sale any and all public lands belonging to the state, and return any lands so withdrawn for the purpose of sale or other disposition in accordance with law.

(a) The director may hire, lease, lease-purchase, or lease with the option to purchase any real or personal property for the use of any state agency, including the Department of General Services, if he or she deems the hiring or leasing is in the best interests of the state. (b) …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and a land lease and a lease-purchase agreement with the joint powers agency created under the joint powers agreement f…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may sell or exchange, based on current market value and upon any terms and conditions, and with any reservations and exceptions, deemed by the director to be in the state’s best interests, the state-owne…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into an amendment to the existing joint powers agreement with the Oakland Redevelopment Agency in connection with the development of approximately 700,000 gross usable square feet of new st…

(a) The director may exercise the option to purchase 137,275 of net usable square feet of data center, office space, and appurtenances set forth in the lease for 3101 Gold Camp Drive, Rancho Cordova, California, 95670, for a price not to exceed forty-seven millions dollars ($47,0…

(a) (1) The Director of General Services may enter into one or more agreements to acquire, construct, purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease-purchase finance, or lease with an option to purchase, with an initial option purchase price that exceeds two million dollars ($2,000,000),…

(a) The Department of General Services shall, by July 1, 2015, complete a long-range planning study of the state-controlled and owned office buildings in the County of Sacramento and the City of West Sacramento, including the Board of Equalization’s headquarters, for the manageme…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with the City of Fresno, the Fresno Redevelopment Agency, the County of Fresno, the school district boards within the County of Fresno, or any other state, federal…

(a) The Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or lease with an option to purchase agreement, for a build-to-suit office facility to replace the California Highway Patrol area…

Upon approval of the Director of General Services, and in accordance with any terms and conditions agreed upon by the city and the state that the director determines are in the best interest of the state, the City of Pomona may convey to the Consolidated Fire Protection District …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with the Oakland Redevelopment Agency and a land lease and a lease-purchase agreement with the joint powers agency created under the joint powers agreement, for th…

(a) The Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or lease with an option to purchase agreement, for a build-to-suit office facility to replace the Department of the California H…

(a) The Director of the Department of General Services is authorized to acquire, develop, design, and construct, according to plans and specifications approved by the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority, an approximately 200,000 gross square foot regional cri…

Notwithstanding any other law, the director shall exempt from the director’s approval, or approval of the department, transactions entered into by the State Department of Developmental Services for the lease, lease-purchase, or lease with the option to purchase five Stabilization…

(a) The Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Motor Vehicles, may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or lease with an option to purchase agreement, for a build-to-suit office facility to replace the Department of Motor Vehicles field office in …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or a lease with an option to purchase with an initial option purchase price over two million dollars ($2,000,000) only for the property located at 9645 Butterfield Way in the Count…

(a) The Director of General Services may purchase, exchange, or otherwise acquire real property and construct facilities, including any improvements, betterments, and related facilities, in the County of Sacramento, along the Highway 50 corridor in close proximity or contiguous t…

Notwithstanding Section 14669, the director may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or a lease with an option to purchase, with an initial option purchase price which may exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000), to provide for a California Conservation Corps facility and offic…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Director of General Services may enter into an additional amendment to the existing joint powers agreement with the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles dated June 30, 1982, in connection with the financing…

Notwithstanding Section 14669, if the plan requested pursuant to Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991 has been completed, the Director of General Services may enter into a lease with an option to purchase, with an initial option purchase price that exceeds two million d…

Notwithstanding Section 14669, if the plan requested pursuant to Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991 has been completed, the Director of General Services may enter into a lease with an option to purchase or a lease with an option to lease-purchase, with an initial opti…

The Director of General Services may enter into an agreement with federal authorities to sell, lease, or exchange land at the Northern California Women’s Facility, as described in subdivision (o) of Section 5003 of the Penal Code. The conditions of the sale, lease, or exchange sh…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into an amendment to the existing joint powers agreement with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency in connection with the redevelopment of the 350 McAllister/455 Golden Gate block in the …

The legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (a) Based upon information contained in a statewide property inventory, the state has both substantial real estate needs and resources. (b) The Department of General Services has developed a Riverside/San Bernardino Regiona…