When the expenditure required for a public project exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000), it shall be contracted for and let to the lowest responsible bidder after notice.
Cal. Pub. Cont. Code § 20162
Cities
Known as the Local Agency Public Construction Act
The act spans §§ 20100–20929 (618 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 27 Cal. 4th 228 - Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks (2002)
Most recently applied in 2 Cal. 5th 505 - Roy Allan Slurry Seal, Inc. v. Am. Asphalt S., Inc. (February 2017)
Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 465, Sec. 11.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.