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3.18.020 - Definitions.

Part of the Code of Ordinances of Commerce, CA.

Local law · Updated May 13, 2025 · 2,277 sections

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As used in this Chapter:

"Commission" means the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission.

"Facility" means any plant, building, structure, ground facility, utility system, subject to the limitation found in Subsection (3) of the definition for "public project," real property, streets, and highways or other public work improvement.

"Public Project" means any of the following: (1)

Construction, reconstruction, erection, alteration, renovation, improvement, demolition, and repair work involving any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility;

(2)

Painting or repainting of any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility;

(3)

In the case of publicly owned utility system, "public property" includes only the construction, erection, improvement or repair of dams, reservoirs, powerplants and electrical transmission lines of two hundred thirty thousand volts and higher.

Public project does not include maintenance work. For purposes of this Chapter, "Maintenance Work" includes all of the following: (1)

Routine, recurring and usual work for the preservation or protection of any publicly owned or publicly operated facility for its intended purposes;

(2)

Minor repainting;

(3)

Resurfacing of less than one inch in thickness of streets and highways;

(4)

Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of plants and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems;

(5)

Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain publicly owned water, power or waste disposal systems, including, but not limited to, dams, reservoirs, powerplants, and electrical transmission lines of two hundred thirty thousand volts and higher.

"UPCCAA" means the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (or the "Act") adopted by the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22000, et seq., Part 3, Chapter 2.

(Ord. No. 774, § 3, 6-1-2021)