{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-8848","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 8848","heading":"","body":"(a) An administering agency may establish a peer review group.\n(b) If an administering agency establishes a peer review group, the administering agency shall do all of the following:\n(1) Before establishing a peer review group, develop a transparent process for selecting members of the group.\n(2) Draft a charter. The charter also shall be posted on the administering agency’s Internet Web site as a public document and shall contain all of the following information:\n(A) The group’s official name or designation.\n(B) The group’s objective and the scope of its activities.\n(C) A statement of the expertise and balance of interests required of the group membership to perform its charge.\n(D) The name of the administering agency and official to whom the group reports.\n(E) A description of the duties for which the group is responsible.\n(F) The estimated number and frequency of group meetings.\n(G) The estimated annual operating costs for the group.\n(H) A statement that authorizes a peer reviewer to conduct his or her duties under the charter impartially, without restriction or limitation, and in a manner the peer reviewer believes is necessary to appropriately review a proposed project.\n(I) A statement that declares whether the members of the peer review group have signed a conflict of interest disclosure form that would identify real or perceived conflicts between a peer reviewer and the specified public works project.","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [8000. - 22980.]","DIVISION 1. GENERAL [8000. - 8899.95.]","CHAPTER 11. The Public Works Project Peer Review Act of 2013 [8847. - 8848.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"b2a2316d91d5e6a4f797dbcbd1e03952651e902031844a2842e57ce21f4cb062","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-8847.1","next":"us-ca/gov-8855"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}