The following terms whenever used in this part have the meanings given in this section except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) “Board” means the State Public Works Board.
(b) “Construction” includes the extension, enlargement, repair, renovation, restoration, improvement, furnishing, and equipping of any public building.
(c) “Public building” includes any structure, building, facility, or work that a state agency has jurisdiction of, or is authorized to design or construct, including, but not limited to, infrastructure, parking lots, landscaping, and other ancillary facilities, including furnishings and equipment, incidental to the use of any building, and also includes the site thereof, and any easements or rights of way appurtenant thereto or necessary for its full use.
(d) “Acquire” includes purchase, condemnation, lease, and gift.
(e) “Cost of a public building” includes, but is not limited to, the cost of all real estate, properties, rights, and easements acquired, the cost of construction of public buildings and the furnishing and equipment of them, all financing charges, interest prior to, during and for a period of six months after construction, engineering, architects’ and legal expenses, including the cost of plans, specifications, and surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, administrative expenses, and such other expenses as are necessary or incident to the financing of public buildings, or to determine the feasibility or practicability of any public buildings, and the condemnation of property necessary for use of, or in connection with, any public building.
(f) “Property” includes all property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of this part.
(g) “State agency” includes any state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission, organization, or agency including, without limitation, the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the Judicial Council.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 726, Sec. 4. (AB 1620) Effective October 19, 2010.)
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