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Home » US Law » 2022 California Code » Elections Code - ELEC » DIVISION 0.5 - PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS » CHAPTER 2 - Petitions and Petition Signers

Section 100.

100. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever an initiative, referendum, recall, nominating petition or paper, or any other petition or paper, is required to be signed by voters of a county, city, school district, or special district subject to petitioning, only a person who is an eligible registered voter at the time of signing […]

Section 100.5.

100.5. Notwithstanding Section 100, a voter who is unable to personally affix on a petition or paper the information required by Section 100 may request another person to print the voter’s name and place of residence on the appropriate spaces of the petition or paper, but the voter shall personally affix his or her mark […]

Section 101.

101. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition required to be signed by voters shall contain in 11-point type, before that portion of the petition for voters’ signatures, printed names, and residence addresses, the following language, in order: (1) “NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:”. This text shall be in a boldface […]

Section 102.

102. A person shall not circulate a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition or nominating paper unless the person is 18 years of age or older. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 278, Sec. 1. (SB 213) Effective January 1, 2014.)

Section 103.

103. A voter who has signed an initiative, referendum, or recall petition pursuant to the Constitution or laws of this state shall have their signature withdrawn from the petition upon filing a written request that includes the name or title of the petition and the voter’s name, residence address, and signature with the appropriate county […]

Section 104.

104. (a) Wherever any petition or paper is submitted to the elections official, each section of the petition or paper shall have attached to it a declaration signed by the circulator of the petition or paper, setting forth, in the circulator’s own hand, the following: (1) The printed name of the circulator. (2) The residence address of the […]

Section 105.

105. (a) (1) For purposes of verifying a signature on an initiative, referendum, recall, nomination, or other election petition or paper, the elections official shall determine that the residence address on the petition or paper is the same as the residence address on the affidavit of registration. If the addresses are different, or if the petition or […]

Section 106.

106. Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) Any registered voter who is a candidate for any office may obtain signatures to and sign his or her own nomination papers. The candidate’s signature shall be given the same effect as that of any other qualified signer. (b) Any person engaged in obtaining signatures to the nomination papers […]

Section 107.

107. (a) (1)  A committee formed pursuant to Section 82013 of the Government Code that pays for the circulation of a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition shall create an Official Top Funders sheet as follows, with all text in a black roman type with a type size of 14 point on a plain, […]

Section 108.

108. Notwithstanding any other law, the pages of a petition may be bound together by any reasonable method, including the use of staples. (Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 563, Sec. 4. (SB 47) Effective January 1, 2020.)