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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 8903
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 8903
(a) The candidate shall submit the following to the Secretary of State: (1) (A) Two copies of each tax return required by Section 8902. One copy of each tax return shall be identical to the version submitted to the Internal Revenue Service, without redactions, and shall not be su
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9
(a) Counting of words, for purposes of this code, shall be as follows: (1) Punctuation is not counted. (2) Each word shall be counted as one word except as specified in this section. (3) All proper nouns, including geographical names, shall be considered as one word; for example,
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9000
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9000
This article applies only to initiative and referendum measures affecting the Constitution or laws of the state.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9001
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9001
(a) Before the circulation of an initiative or referendum petition for signatures, the text of the proposed measure shall be submitted to the Attorney General with a written request that a circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure be pr
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9002
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9002
(a) Upon receipt of a request from the proponents of a proposed initiative measure for a circulating title and summary, the Attorney General shall initiate a public review process for a period of 30 days by doing all of the following: (1) Posting the text of the proposed initiati
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9003
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9003
In the event that the Attorney General is a proponent of a proposed measure, the circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure, including an estimate or opinion on the financial impact of the measure, shall be prepared by the Legislative Co
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9004
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9004
(a) Upon receipt of the text of a proposed initiative measure, and after the public review period provided for in Section 9002, the Attorney General shall prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed measure. The circulating title and s
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9005
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9005
(a) The Attorney General, in preparing a circulating title and summary for a proposed initiative measure, shall, in boldface print, include in the circulating title and summary either the estimate of the amount of any increase or decrease in revenues or costs to the state or loca
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9006
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9006
(a) Upon receipt of the text of a proposed referendum, the Attorney General shall prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed statute at issue. The circulating title and summary shall not exceed a total of 100 words. No fiscal analysis
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9007
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9007
Immediately upon the preparation of the circulating title and summary of a proposed initiative or referendum measure, the Attorney General shall forthwith transmit copies of the text of the measure and the circulating title and summary to the Senate and the Assembly. The appropri
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9008
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9008
Every proposed initiative measure, prior to circulation, shall have placed across the top of the petition in 11-point or larger roman type, all of the following: (a) The Attorney General’s unique numeric identifier placed before the circulating title and summary upon each page wh
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9009
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9009
The heading of an initiative petition shall be in substantially the following form: Initiative Measure to Be Submitted Directly to the Voters The Attorney General of California has prepared the following circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the propose
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9010
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9010
Across the top of each page of a referendum petition, there shall be printed in 12-point boldface type the following: “Referendum Against an Act Passed by the Legislature.”
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9011
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9011
Across the top of each page after the first page of every referendum petition or section of a referendum petition, which is prepared and circulated, there shall be printed in 18-point gothic type a short title, in 20 words or less, showing the nature of the petition and the subje
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9012
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9012
Any petition for a proposed initiative measure or referendum may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain a full and correct copy of the circulating title and summary and text of the proposed measure. The text of the proposed measure shall be printed in type not s
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9013
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9013
A space at least one inch wide shall be left blank across the top of each page of every initiative and referendum petition and after the name of each voter who has signed the petition for the use of the county elections official in verifying the petition.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9014
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9014
(a) A petition for a proposed initiative or referendum measure shall not be circulated for signatures prior to the official summary date. (b) Subject to subdivision (d), a petition with signatures for a proposed initiative measure shall be filed with the county elections official
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9015
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9015
Officers required by law to receive or file in their offices any initiative or referendum petition shall not receive or file any initiative or referendum petition not in conformity with this article.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9016
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9016
(a) Notwithstanding Section 324, for purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 8 of, and subdivision (c) of Section 9 of, Article II of the California Constitution, “general election” means only the election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in No
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9017
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9017
If, for any reason, any initiative or referendum measure proposed by petition as provided by this article is not submitted to the voters at the next succeeding statewide election, that failure shall not prevent its submission at a succeeding statewide election.
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9018
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9018
The Secretary of State shall prepare and provide to any person, upon request, a pamphlet describing the procedures and requirements for preparing and circulating a statewide initiative measure and for filing sections of the petition, and describing the procedure used in determini
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9020
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9020
(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 § 9021
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9021
(a) A person who meets the requirements of Section 102 may circulate a statewide initiative or referendum petition anywhere within the state. Each section of the petition shall bear the name of a county or city and county, and only qualified registered voters of that county or ci
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9022
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9022
(a) Each section shall have attached thereto the declaration of the person soliciting the signatures setting forth the information required by Section 104. (b) The circulator shall certify to the content of the declaration as to its truth and correctness, under penalty of perjury
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Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9030
Elections Code - ELEC - ELEC § 9030
(a) Each section of the petition shall be filed with the elections official of the county or city and county for which it was circulated, but all sections circulated in any county or city and county shall be filed at the same time. Once filed, no petition section shall be amended