Terms Used In California Codes > Public Contract Code > Division 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 60.4 - Job Order Contracting for School Districts

• Adjustment factor: means the job order contractor's competitively bid adjustment to the school district's prices as published in the unit price catalog. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Adult day health care: means an organized day program of therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services provided pursuant to this chapter to elderly persons or adults with disabilities with functional impairments, either physical or mental, for the purpose of restoring or maintaining optimal capacity for self-care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• adult day health care center: means a licensed facility that provides adult day health care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Director: means the State Public Health Officer. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Indefinite quantity: means one or more of the construction tasks listed in the unit price catalog. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Job order: means a firm, fixed priced, lump-sum order issued by the school district to a job order contractor for a definite project scope of work as compiled from the unit price catalog to be performed pursuant to a job order contract. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Job order contract: means a contract, awarded to a most qualified bidder as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 20919. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Job order contract technical specifications: means a book, published by the school district, detailing the technical specifications with regard to quality of materials and workmanship to be used by the job order contractor in accomplishing the tasks listed in the unit price catalog. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Job order contractor: means a licensed, bonded, and general liability insured contractor awarded a job order contract. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• License: means a basic permit to operate an adult day health care center. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Offer to perform work: means the job order contractor's proposal for a specific job order. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• 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.
• Project: means the specific requirements and work to be accomplished by the job order contractor in connection with an individual job order. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Project labor agreement: means an agreement that meets the requirements of Section 2500. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Project scope of work: means the document and related drawings, specifications, and writings referenced therein which together set forth the specific requirements and work to be accomplished by the job order contractor in connection with an individual job order. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Proposal: means the job order contractor prepared document quoting those construction tasks listed in the unit price catalog that the job order contractor requires to complete the project scope of work, together with the appropriate quantities of each task. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• School district: means any school district. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• state department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subcontractor: means any person, firm, or corporation, other than the employees of the job order contractor, who is bonded and general liability insured and who contracts to furnish labor, or labor and materials, at the worksite or in connection with a job order, whether directly or indirectly on behalf of the job order contractor. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Unit price catalog: means a book containing specific construction tasks and the unit prices to install or demolish that construction. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21