ARTICLE 1. Initiative and Referendum Petitions
Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.
§§ 9000–9018 · 19 sections
- § 9000 This article applies only to initiative and referendum measures affecting the Constitution or laws of the state.
- § 9001 (a) Before the circulation of an initiative or referendum petition for signatures, the text of the proposed measure shall be submitted to the Attorney General…
- § 9002 (a) Upon receipt of a request from the proponents of a proposed initiative measure for a circulating title and summary, the Attorney General shall initiate a…
- § 9003 In the event that the Attorney General is a proponent of a proposed measure, the circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed…
- § 9004 (a) Upon receipt of the text of a proposed initiative measure, and after the public review period provided for in Section 9002, the Attorney General shall…
- § 9005 (a) The Attorney General, in preparing a circulating title and summary for a proposed initiative measure, shall, in boldface print, include in the circulating…
- § 9006 (a) Upon receipt of the text of a proposed referendum, the Attorney General shall prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purpose and points of…
- § 9007 Immediately upon the preparation of the circulating title and summary of a proposed initiative or referendum measure, the Attorney General shall forthwith…
- § 9008 Every proposed initiative measure, prior to circulation, shall have placed across the top of the petition in 11-point or larger roman type, all of the…
- § 9009 The heading of an initiative petition shall be in substantially the following form: Initiative Measure to Be Submitted Directly to the Voters The Attorney…
- § 9010 Across the top of each page of a referendum petition, there shall be printed in 12-point boldface type the following: “Referendum Against an Act Passed by the…
- § 9011 Across the top of each page after the first page of every referendum petition or section of a referendum petition, which is prepared and circulated, there…
- § 9012 Any petition for a proposed initiative measure or referendum may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain a full and correct copy of the…
- § 9013 A space at least one inch wide shall be left blank across the top of each page of every initiative and referendum petition and after the name of each voter who…
- § 9014 (a) A petition for a proposed initiative or referendum measure shall not be circulated for signatures prior to the official summary date. (b) Subject to…
- § 9015 Officers required by law to receive or file in their offices any initiative or referendum petition shall not receive or file any initiative or referendum…
- § 9016 (a) Notwithstanding Section 324, for purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 8 of, and subdivision (c) of Section 9 of, Article II of the California…
- § 9017 If, for any reason, any initiative or referendum measure proposed by petition as provided by this article is not submitted to the voters at the next succeeding…
- § 9018 The Secretary of State shall prepare and provide to any person, upon request, a pamphlet describing the procedures and requirements for preparing and…