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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11000
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11000
This division governs the recall of elective officers of the State of California and of all counties, cities, school districts, county boards of education, community college districts, special districts, and judges of courts of appeal and superior courts. It does not supersede th
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11001
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11001
For the purposes of this division, judges of courts of appeal shall be considered state officers, and judges of superior courts shall be considered county officers.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11002
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11002
For the purposes of this division, “elections official” means one of the following: (a) A county elections official in the case of the recall of elective officers of a county, school district, county board of education, community college district, or resident voting district, and
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11003
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11003
For the purposes of this division, “governing board” means a city council, the board of supervisors of a county, the board of trustees of a school district or community college district, or the legislative body of a special district, as the context requires. In the case of the re
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11004
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11004
For the purposes of this division, a “local officer” is an elective officer of a city, county, school district, community college district, or special district, or a judge of a superior court.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11005
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11005
The proponents of a recall must be registered voters of the electoral jurisdiction of the officer they seek to recall.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11006
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11006
Proceedings may be commenced for the recall of any elective officer, including any officer appointed in lieu of election or to fill a vacancy, by the service, filing and publication or posting of a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition pursuant to this chapter.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11007
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11007
Except when a person has been appointed to office pursuant to Section 10229 because no person had been nominated to office, proceedings may not be commenced against an officer of a city, county, special district, school district, community college district, or county board of edu
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11020
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11020
(a) The notice of intention shall contain all of the following: (1) The name and title of the officer sought to be recalled. (2) A statement, not exceeding 200 words in length, of the reasons for the proposed recall. (3) The printed name, signature, and residence address, includi
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11021
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11021
A copy of the notice of intention shall be served by personal delivery, or by certified mail, on the officer sought to be recalled. Within seven days of serving the notice of intention, the original thereof shall be filed, along with an affidavit of the time and manner of service
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11022
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11022
A copy of the notice, except the provisions required by paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 11020, shall be published at the proponents’ expense pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code. Publication shall be required unless there is no newspaper of general circulat
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11023
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11023
(a) Within seven days after the filing of the notice of intention, the officer sought to be recalled may file with the elections official, or in the case of a state officer, the Secretary of State, an answer, in not more than 200 words, to the statement of the proponents. (b) If
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11024
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11024
(a) The statement and answer are intended solely for the information of the voters. No insufficiency in form or substance thereof shall affect the validity of the election proceedings. (b) This section shall not be deemed to make the statement and answer, or the authors of the st
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11040
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11040
(a) The petition may consist of any number of separate sections, which shall be duplicates except as to signatures and matters required to be affixed by signers and circulators. The number of signatures attached to each section shall be at the pleasure of the person soliciting th
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11041
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11041
(a) The proponents shall use the recall petition format provided by the Secretary of State and available from the county elections official or the Secretary of State. Before any signature may be affixed to a recall petition, each page of each section must bear all of the followin
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11042
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11042
(a) Within 10 days after filing of the answer to the notice of intention, or, if no answer is filed, within 10 days after the expiration of the seven-day period specified in Section 11023, the proponents shall file two blank copies of the petition with the elections official in h
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11042.5
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11042.5
(a) For a petition for the recall of a local officer, the county elections official shall make a copy of the petition available for public examination in the elections official’s office for 10 days, which shall run concurrently with the 10-day review period for the elections offi
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11043
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11043
(a) The petition sections shall be designed so that each signer shall personally affix all of the following: (1) The signer’s signature. (2) The signer’s printed name. (3) The signer’s residence address, giving street and number, or if no street or number exists, adequate designa
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11043.5
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11043.5
(a) The Secretary of State shall provide to county elections officials a recall petition format for distribution to proponents of a recall. The recall petition format shall be made available upon request by the county elections official and by the Secretary of State. (b) The reca
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11044
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11044
Separate petitions are necessary to propose the recall of each officer.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11045
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11045
Only registered voters of the electoral jurisdiction of the officer sought to be recalled are qualified to sign a recall petition for that officer. A person who meets the requirements of Section 102 may circulate the petition.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11046
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11046
To each section of a petition shall be attached a declaration, signed by the circulator thereof, that complies with Section 104.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11047
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11047
When a petition is circulated in more than one county for the recall of an officer, each section of the petition shall bear the name of the county for which it is circulated, and only registered voters of that county may sign that section.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11100
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11100
(a) This chapter applies only to the recall of state officers. (b) In addition to this chapter, Sections 13 to 18, inclusive, of Article II of the California Constitution and the applicable provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 11000) and Chapter 4 (commencing with Sec
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11101
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 11101
Unless and until it is otherwise proven upon official investigation, it shall be presumed that the petition presented contains the signatures of the requisite number of registered voters.