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This part is known and may be cited as the "State Building Construction Act of 1955."
No public building shall be acquired or constructed under this part, unless authorized by a separate act or appropriation enacted by the Legislature.
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.
This part provides an additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized herein and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing.
The state office building and garage in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, bounded by First Street on the northerly side, Broadway Street on the easterly side, Second Street on the southerly side, and Hill Street on the westerly side, shall be named and shall be known hereafter as the Junípero Serra Building.