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yes, we were told we could not contract with ourselves, so we had to do memorandums of understanding when we had revenue or other agreements between units.

We also had a policy to follow state law (which does not apply to UC unless UC is specifically mentioned in the law).

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Is UC federal land or something?!

As noted above, the University of California is given special status by a section of California constitution, so it has special status through that. It's presumably clauses like that fact it's governed by the Regents "...subject only to such legislative control as may be necessary to insure the security of its funds and compliance with the terms of the endowments of the university..." that mean it isn't normally affected by new laws.

(https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...)

All that said, parts of UC are indeed on federal land. Berkeley Lab, for instance.

Berkeley Lab / LBNL is on land owned by the UC, but all the buildings are owned by the feds.

Livermore / LLNL is fully owned by the feds.

And it has its own police, of course.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/fd/c8/c0fdc8612e07d7562b25...

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