California Elections Code ARTICLE 1 - Initiative

• Section 9300.
  In addition to any other method provided by law, ordinances may be enacted by any district pursuant to this article, except that this article shall...
• Section 9301.
  Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the governing board of the district by an initiative petition filed with the district elections official. Signatures to...
• Section 9302.
  Before circulating an initiative petition in any district, the proponents of that measure shall publish a notice of intention. The notice shall be accompanied by...
• Section 9303.
  A notice of intention and statement as referred to in Section 9302 shall be published or posted, or both, as follows:(a) If there is a newspaper...
• Section 9304.
  Within 10 days after the date of publication or posting, or both, of the notice of intention and statement of the reasons for the proposed...
• Section 9304.5.
  From the time materials pertaining to an initiative petition are filed pursuant to Section 9304 until the day after the district elections official determines that...
• Section 9305.
  After filing a copy of the notice of intention, statement of the reasons for the proposed petition, written text of the initiative, and affidavit of...
• Section 9306.
  Signatures upon petitions and sections thereof shall be secured, and the petition, together with all sections thereof, shall be filed within 180 days from the...
• Section 9307.
  Each section of the petition shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person soliciting the signatures. This affidavit shall be substantially in the same...
• Section 9308.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 9309, within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the district elections...
• Section 9309.
  (a) Within 30 days from the date of filing of the petition, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, if, from the examination of petitions pursuant to Section...
• Section 9310.
  (a) If the initiative petition is signed by voters not less in number than 10 percent of the voters in the district, where the total number...
• Section 9312.
  Whenever an ordinance is required by this article to be submitted to the voters of a district at an election, the district elections official shall...
• Section 9313.
  Except as provided in Section 9314, whenever a district measure is submitted to the voters, the district elections official shall transmit a copy of the...
• Section 9314.
  (a) Whenever a district measure is submitted to the voters of a water district, the district elections official shall transmit a copy of the measure to...
• Section 9315.
  The persons filing an initiative petition pursuant to this article may file a written argument in favor of the ordinance. The district board may submit...
• Section 9316.
  Based on the time reasonably necessary to prepare and print the arguments and voter information guides, and to permit the 10-calendar-day public examination as provided...
• Section 9317.
  (a) When an argument in favor and an argument against a measure have been selected for publication in the voter information pamphlet the elections official responsible...
• Section 9319.
  Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election.(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
• Section 9320.
  If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed ordinance vote in its favor, the ordinance shall become a valid and binding ordinance of...
• Section 9321.
  If the provisions of two or more ordinances adopted at the same election conflict, the ordinance receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall control.(Enacted...
• Section 9322.
  The enacting clause of an ordinance submitted to the voters of a district shall be substantially in the following form:“The people of the ____ District...
• Section 9323.
  No ordinance proposed by initiative petition and adopted either by the district board without submission to the voters or adopted by the voters shall be...

Last modified: October 22, 2018