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(a) Any personal property belonging to the City, other than personal property under the control of the Department of Water and Power, the Harbor Department, and the Airports Department, no longer required for the use of the City department (or office, board commission, or other City agency) to which it has been assigned, shall be turned over to the Department of General Services. The property may be sold, provided the approval of the board, commission, or officer having the control and management of the department has been obtained, and the sale, whenever practicable, shall be to any department (or office, board commission, or other agency) of the City government.
(b) Personal property of the City available for sale under this article does not include any salvaged City-owned hazardous electronic equipment covered by Section 7.82 of this article.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 52,230.
Amended by: Ord. No. 67,552; Ord. No. 152,427, Eff. 6-29-79; Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07.
The Purchasing Agent shall have the authority and right to transfer, by loan, from any department of the City government to any other department of the City government any article of furniture or equipment that is not in actual use by the department owning or having possession of the same, provided there is no immediate necessity for the department owning or having possession of the same to retain the equipment for immediate future use.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 52,230.
Amended by: Ord. No. 66,562.
(a) When any article of furniture or equipment owned by or in possession of any department of the City government becomes obsolete or worn out, the article shall be condemned and removed from service upon recommendation of the Purchasing Agent, approved by resolution of the City Council provided that no furniture or equipment shall be sold without the consent of the head of the department owning the equipment.
(b) Obsolete or worn-out equipment available for sale under this article does not include any salvaged City-owned hazardous electronic equipment covered by Section 7.82 of this article.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 52,230.
Amended by: Ord. No. 66,562; Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07.
Each department and office, except those departments given control of their own definite revenues or funds, to which furniture or equipment has been purchased for or assigned to by the City shall maintain a current and perpetual stock record of such furniture and equipment. The Controller shall prescribe the items of furniture and equipment to be contained in the records, information requirements on records, and the procedures for controlling furniture and equipment inventories. Department Heads shall certify to the best of their knowledge that their records are complete, correct and the equipment is in their official possession or under charge of their department. The Controller shall make such examinations of the perpetual stock records, summaries, or lists required by this section as deemed necessary.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 52,230.
Amended by: Ord. No. 117,011; Ord. No. 151,002, Eff. 7-9-78, Oper. 7-1-78.
All commissions not having control over their own funds, and all department heads having under their jurisdiction automobiles owned by the City, shall deposit with the Purchasing Agent all pink slips showing ownership of automobiles owned by the City and under their supervision, and in the future, the Purchasing Agent shall receive and file all pink slips covering purchase of new automobiles or trucks. Said pink slips shall be in the custody of the Department of General Services.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 52,230.
Amended by: Ord. No. 67,989; Ord. No. 152,427, Eff. 6-29-79.
There shall be no further acquisition, storage, or use by any City department of dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane (DDT), dichlorodiphenyldi-chlorethane (DDD), or of mercury-based fungicides, and the head of each department which has any City-owned supplies thereof shall immediately cause said supplies to be disposed of at one of the Los Angeles County dumps certified for said purpose.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 142,606, Eff. 12-11-71.
As used in this article:
“Certified Recycling Contractor” means a contractor that has met all of the payment eligibility requirements specified in California Public Resources Code Section 42479(b).
“Hazardous Electronic Equipment” means “covered electronic device” and all other electronic items regulated as hazardous electronic waste when discarded or disposed under applicable California or federal laws and regulations, but not including salvaged electronic equipment that the City contracts to sell to another California municipality for re-use, subject to the condition that the California municipality handle and dispose of the electronic equipment in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations.
“Salvaged” means obsolete or worn out items, or re-usable items that are no longer needed by City departments, and which the City departments turn over to the Department of General Services, Supply Services, Salvage Section, for final disposition.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07.
(a) All City departments must list all usable electronic equipment in the Citi-MAX Re-Use Program or other City-sponsored Re-Use Program for at least 30 days before the City departments turn over the equipment to the Department of General Services, Supply Services, Salvage Section.
(b) General Recycling Procedures. The Department of General Services will arrange for recycling of salvaged City-owned hazardous electronic equipment by a certified recycling contractor. The Digital Inclusion Pilot Project is exempt from this requirement.
(1) Exemption of Digital Inclusion Pilot Project. All City-owned desktop personal computers to be removed from City service shall be exempt from the recycling procedure in (b) above, and instead diverted to the Digital Inclusion Pilot Project as follows:
(A) The Department of General Services shall contract with a nonprofit organization located in the City of Los Angeles to administer the City’s Digital Inclusion Pilot Project.
(B) The City’s desktop personal computers to be removed from City service shall be donated to the Digital Inclusion Pilot Project under the criteria listed in Administrative Code Section 22.547, Subsection (a).
(C) All hard drives from City-owned desktop computers donated to the Digital Inclusion Pilot Program shall be wiped of all data using methods and software employing United States Department of Defense standards.
(D) After hard drives are wiped of all data, the computers shall be refurbished (or salvaged, if non-usable) and sent to qualifying low-income residents or nonprofit organizations in the City of Los Angeles. (The nonprofit organization shall qualify which residents or nonprofit organizations shall receive the computers).
(c) Any City Proprietary Department or other City department having control of its own special funds, which adopts a similar recycling policy, may recycle its salvaged hazardous electronic equipment through the program administered by the Department of General Services under this article, provided that the department pays in advance all its associated costs.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07.
Amended by: Ord. No. 183,116, Eff. 7-28-14.
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