“City” means the City and County of San Francisco.
“Contract” means an agreement between a Contracting Department and any person or entity that provides, at the expense of the City, for public works or public improvements to be purchased under Chapter 6 of the Administrative Code, or for commodities or services to be purchased under Chapter 21 of the Administrative Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Contract” shall not include:
(a) Agreements for the investment of trust money or relating to the management of trust assets, agreements to invest City moneys in U.S. government securities, or agreements for the investment, deposit, or safekeeping of City moneys, where, for any such agreement, the Treasurer, as a fiduciary of the City, determines that entering into the agreement is in the interest of soundly investing public assets; or
(b) Agreements entered into for underwriting services for the purchase and sale of City bonds, notes, and other forms of indebtedness; or
(c) Agreements advertised, solicited, or initiated prior to the Operative Date of this Article II, Chapter 12X, including amendments to existing Contracts.
“Contracting Department” means the City department, office, board, commission, or other City agency that enters into a Contract on behalf of the City.
“Contractor” means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint venture, or other legal entity or combination thereof, which enters into a Contract with the City.
“Covered State” means a state that has enacted a law that prohibits abortion prior to the Viability of the fetus, regardless of whether there are exceptions to such prohibition. Examples of such restrictive laws include a law prohibiting abortion after fetal pole cardiac activity can be detected but before viability (so-called “fetal heartbeat” laws), and a law that prohibits abortion a set number of weeks after fertilization but before Viability.
“Covered State List” means the list maintained by the City Administrator of all states that meet the definition of a Covered State, in accordance with Section 12X.13.
“Operative Date” means January 1, 2020.
“Viability” has the meaning articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade: “potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb, albeit with artificial aid,” and as further articulated in the California Reproductive Privacy Act, (Health & Safety Code Sec. 123464): “the point in a pregnancy when, in the good faith medical judgment of a physician, on the particular facts of the case before that physician, there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’s sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”
