CHAPTER 4. County Central Committee [7400. - 7470.]

Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.

§§ 7400–7470 · 42 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Members §§ 7400–7414 · 18 sections

   • § 7400 In each county containing less than five Assembly districts, a county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number to be elected…
   • § 7400.1 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of Sacramento, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number…
   • § 7400.2 Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of Placer, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts and shall be composed of…
   • § 7400.3 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of Santa Clara, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the number…
   • § 7400.5 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County of San Bernardino, the county central committee shall be elected by supervisor districts, and the…
   • § 7401 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…
   • § 7402 In each county containing 20 or more Assembly districts a county central committee shall consist of seven members elected from each Assembly district contained…
   • § 7403 (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…
   • § 7404 (a) In each county, the nominee of the party for State Senator, the nominees of the party for the Assembly, and any person nominated to either the Senate or…
   • § 7405 The nominee for each of the following offices shall be an ex officio member of the committee in the county in which he or she resides: (a) Governor. (b)…
   • § 7406 A committee may authorize each elected member and each ex officio member of that committee to appoint an alternate member. An ex officio member who is also an…
   • § 7407 A person shall not be eligible for appointment or election to a committee who is not registered as affiliated with this party at the time of his or her…
   • § 7409 In the event that the candidates elected to a committee from a district do not equal the number of party committeemembers to which that district is entitled to…
   • § 7410 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…
   • § 7411 (a) Any member of a committee, other than an ex officio member, who misses four regularly called meetings within one 12-month period shall be removed from the…
   • § 7412 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…
   • § 7413 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…
   • § 7414 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. Election §§ 7420–7425 · 6 sections

   • § 7420 (a) At every presidential primary election, a member may be elected to a county central committee to replace a member whose term is expiring. (b) When district…
   • § 7421 The elections official, no later than January 31 preceding the presidential primary, shall compute the number of members of the committee allotted to each…
   • § 7422 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…
   • § 7423 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…
   • § 7424 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…
   • § 7425 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county central committee, in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the committee, may…
3. ARTICLE 3. Meetings §§ 7430–7431 · 2 sections

   • § 7430 The Department of General Services shall permit any committee that desires to do so to hold meetings in a state building within the county, at least one of…
   • § 7431 All meetings of the committee shall be held in quarters that shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
4. ARTICLE 4. General Business §§ 7440–7444 · 5 sections

   • § 7440 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…
   • § 7441 At the first meeting, a committee shall organize by selecting a chairperson, a secretary, and any other officers and committees as it deems necessary for…
   • § 7442 A committee may make rules and regulations providing for any of the following: (a) How officers of the committee may be removed. (b) How meetings may be…
   • § 7443 The committees shall perform any other duties and services for this political party as seem to be for the benefit of the party. Members of a county central…
   • § 7444 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.
5. ARTICLE 5. District Committees §§ 7460–7470 · 11 sections

   • § 7460 This article applies only to committees established by Assembly districts or supervisorial districts within a county pursuant to the bylaws of the county…
   • § 7461 The committees shall be called county Assembly district committees or county supervisorial district committees.
   • § 7462 Each committee shall consist of the persons elected to the county central committee of a single Assembly or supervisorial district.
   • § 7463 The district committees of a county and the ex officio members of the county central committee constitute the county central committee of that county.
   • § 7464 The district committees may elect any officers and undertake any action as the bylaws of the county central committee of which they are a part provide.
   • § 7465 In the event that the candidates elected to a district committee do not equal the number of party committeemembers by which the district is entitled to be…
   • § 7466 In the event of the appointment or election to a district committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns or becomes…
   • § 7467 Any member of a district committee who misses more than three consecutive regularly called meetings of the county central committee may be removed by a vote of…
   • § 7468 The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a district committee from the Assembly district or supervisorial district from which he or she…
   • § 7469 A district committee shall remove any member of that committee who is required to be removed under Section 7413.
   • § 7470 Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a district committee, the district committee shall notify within 10 days the chairperson of the county…