PART 2. DEMOCRATIC PARTY [7050. - 7244.]

Part 2 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.

§§ 7050–7244 · 36 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. General Provisions § 7050 · 1 section

   • § 7050 This part shall apply to the organization, operation, and functions of that political party known as the Democratic Party of California.
2. CHAPTER 2. Presidential Electors § 7100 · 1 section

   • § 7100 In each year of the general election at which electors of President and Vice President of the United States are to be chosen, the candidate in each…
3. CHAPTER 3. State Central Committee §§ 7150–7152 · 3 sections

   • § 7150 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the elements and practices of the state central committee shall be the same as set forth in the standing rules and…
   • § 7151 The state central committee shall conduct party campaigns for the party and on behalf of the candidates of the party. It shall appoint committees and appoint…
   • § 7152 The Democratic Party of California shall post a current copy of its standing rules and bylaws for public inspection on its Internet Web site.
4. CHAPTER 4. County Central Committee §§ 7200–7244 · 31 sections

   1. ARTICLE 1. Members §§ 7200–7216 · 18 sections

      • § 7200 (a) In each county containing less than five Assembly districts, a county committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number to be elected from…
      • § 7201 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a county of the fifth class as defined in Section 28026 of the Government Code, the elected members of the…
      • § 7201.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the County of Sacramento, the elected members of the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor…
      • § 7201.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the County of Alameda, the elected members of the county central committee shall be elected by Assembly…
      • § 7202 In each county containing more than four and less than 20 Assembly districts, a county central committee shall be elected from Assembly districts and shall…
      • § 7203 In each county containing 20 or more Assembly districts a county central committee shall consist of seven members elected from each Assembly district contained…
      • § 7204 (a) In the City and County of San Francisco, the county central committee shall be elected from the two Assembly districts located in the city and county and…
      • § 7205 Notwithstanding this article, each county central committee by resolution may provide for the election of all or a portion of central committee members to…
      • § 7206 In each county the nominee of this party for Senator or the incumbent Senator, the nominees of this party for the Assembly, and any person elected to either…
      • § 7207 The incumbent or nominee of each of the following offices shall be an ex officio member of the committee in the county in which he or she resides: (a)…
      • § 7208 A committee may authorize any member of that committee, whether elected or ex officio, to appoint an alternate if a member desires to appoint an alternate. An…
      • § 7209 (a) A person is not eligible for election to a committee if the person’s affidavit of registration does not state a political party preference for this party…
      • § 7211 In the event that the candidates elected to a committee from a district do not equal the number of party committeepersons to which the district is entitled to…
      • § 7212 In the event of the appointment or election to a committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns or becomes…
      • § 7213 Any member of a committee, other than an ex officio member, who misses more than three consecutive regularly called meetings may be removed by a vote of the…
      • § 7214 The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a committee from the Assembly district or supervisor district from which he or she has been…
      • § 7215 A committee may remove any member, other than an ex officio member, who during his or her term of membership affiliates with, or registers as a member of…
      • § 7216 Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a committee, the chairperson of the committee shall file notices of the appointment with the elections…
   2. ARTICLE 2. Elections §§ 7225–7230 · 6 sections

      • § 7225 At every presidential primary election, a county central committee may be elected in each county.
      • § 7226 The elections official, no later than January 31 preceding the presidential primary, shall compute the number of members of the committee allotted to each…
      • § 7227 In each county the name of each candidate for member of a committee shall appear upon the ballot only upon the filing of a nomination paper pursuant to Article…
      • § 7228 If the elections official, on the 73rd day prior to the presidential primary election, finds that the number of candidates nominated for election to a…
      • § 7229 Whenever a candidate for election to a committee dies on or before the day of election, and a sufficient number of ballots are marked as being voted for him or…
      • § 7230 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county central committee, in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the committee, may select its…
   3. ARTICLE 3. Meetings §§ 7235–7236 · 2 sections

      • § 7235 All meetings of the committee shall be held in quarters that shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
      • § 7236 The Department of General Services shall permit any committee to hold meetings in a state building within the county. At least one committee meeting each month…
   4. ARTICLE 4. General Business §§ 7240–7244 · 5 sections

      • § 7240 A committee shall have charge of the party campaign under general direction of the state central committee or of the executive committee selected by the state…
      • § 7241 A committee may make rules and regulations providing: (a) How officers of the committee may be removed. (b) How meetings may be called, and any provisions so…
      • § 7242 The committees shall perform any other duties and services for this political party as seem to be for the benefit of the party. They shall continue to function…
      • § 7243 If the chairperson of a committee refuses to call a meeting, a meeting may be called upon five days’ notice by a majority of the members of the committee.
      • § 7244 Within five days after a committee meets for its organizational meeting, the newly elected chairperson of the committee shall notify the county elections…