California Corporations Code GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Section 1.
  This act shall be known as the Corporations Code.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 2.
  The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed...
• Section 3.
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
• Section 4.
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• Section 5.
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions govern the construction of this code.(Enacted by Stats. 1947,...
• Section 6.
  Title, division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of...
• Section 7.
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to, or a duty imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised...
• Section 8.
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means; and when used to describe communications between a corporation, partnership, or...
• Section 9.
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• Section 10.
  “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. “Subdivision” means a subdivision of the section in which the term...
• Section 11.
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future tense includes the present.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 12.
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 12.2.
  “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 19. (SB 1005) Effective January...
• Section 13.
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural number includes the singular.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 14.
  “County” includes “city and county.”(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 15.
  “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 16.
  “Oath” includes affirmation.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 17.
  “Signature” includes mark when the signer cannot write, such signer’s name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near...
• Section 17.1.
  (a) In addition to the definition set forth in Section 17, the term “signature” includes a signature in a facsimile document filed pursuant to this code...
• Section 18.
  “Person” includes a corporation as well as a natural person.(Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.)
• Section 19.
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• Section 20.
  “Electronic transmission by the corporation” means a communication (a) delivered by (1) facsimile telecommunication or electronic mail when directed to the facsimile number or electronic...
• Section 21.
  “Electronic transmission to the corporation” means a communication (a) delivered by (1) facsimile telecommunication or electronic mail when directed to the facsimile number or electronic...

Last modified: October 22, 2018