California Government Code 16482 – (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and notwithstanding any …
(a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state agency that has entered into a grant agreement for the expenditure of state bond funds where the state agency or grant recipient is, or may be, unable to comply with the terms of that agreement because of the suspension of interim funding for projects and contracts by the Pooled Money Investment Board on or after December 18, 2008, shall, with the consent of the grant recipient, have authority to do either of the following:
(1) Renegotiate, modify, or eliminate the deadlines and timetables for deliverables within the grant agreement in order to address the suspension.
Terms Used In California Government Code 16482
- 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.
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
- state agency: includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. See California Government Code 11000
(2) Terminate the grant agreement if no grant funds have yet been delivered thereunder.
(b) Nothing in this section shall modify any act under which bonds are authorized to be issued or the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
(c) The authority granted under this section is supplemental and in addition to any other authority provided under law. Nothing in this section, in and of itself, modifies any existing grant agreement rights and obligations.
(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 526, Sec. 1. (AB 1364) Effective October 11, 2009.)