Lab. Code, § 6705 · Chapter 9. Miscellaneous Safety Provisions
Lab. Code, § 6705
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
No contract for public works involving an estimated expenditure in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), for the excavation of any trench or trenches five feet or more in depth, shall be awarded unless it contains a clause requiring submission by the contractor and acceptance by the awarding body or by a registered civil or structural engineer, employed by the awarding body, to whom authority to accept has been delegated, in advance of excavation, of a detailed plan showing the design of shoring, bracing, sloping, or other provisions to be made for worker protection from the hazard of caving ground during the excavation of such trench or trenches. If such plan varies from the shoring system standards, the plan shall be prepared by a registered civil or structural engineer.
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to allow the use of a shoring, sloping, or protective system less effective than that required by the Construction Safety Orders.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose tort liability on the awarding body or any of its employees.
The terms “public works” and “awarding body”, as used in this section, shall have the same meaning as in Sections 1720 and 1722, respectively, of the Labor Code.
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History
Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 993.
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