Gov. Code, § 10291 · Article 4. Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act
Gov. Code, § 10291
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
As used in this article:
(a) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(b) “Legal material” means all of the following, whether or not in effect:
(1) The California Constitution.
(2) The statutes of this state.
(3) The California Codes.
(c) “Official publisher” for electronic legal material means the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
(d) “Publish” means to display, present, or release to the public, or cause to be displayed, presented, or released to the public, by the official publisher.
(e) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(f) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 310, Sec. 1. (SB 1075) Effective January 1, 2013. Operative July 1, 2015, by Sec. 2 of Ch. 310.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=10291.
- Text hash
- sha256 e344b42e40f9a0f71709382f487c0ff056e4d19c25530e139012cbc8e0e174a2
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.