The department may, and on contracts the estimated cost of which exceeds three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) the department shall, require from prospective bidders answers to questions contained in a standard form of questionnaire and financial statement including a complete statement of the prospective bidder’s financial ability and experience in performing public works. When completed, the questionnaire and financial statement shall be verified under oath by the bidder in the manner in which pleadings in civil actions are verified.

This section shall not apply to prospective bidders on contracts for the Department of Transportation.

Terms Used In California Government Code 14310

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the Department of Transportation. See California Government Code 14002.5
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.

(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 733, Sec. 1. Note: Stats. 1981, Ch. 306, enacted similar provisions in § 10160 of the Public Contract Code, and would have repealed this section but for the prevailing amendment by Ch. 733. Stats. 1982, Ch. 466, amended PCC Section 10160 to match, by including the changes that Stats. 1981, Ch. 733, made to this section.)

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