Gov. Code, § 43616 · Article 1. General
Gov. Code, § 43616
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the legislative body shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six months after the prior election. If a petition requesting submission of such a proposition, signed by 15 percent of the city electors as shown by the votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the last election, is filed with the legislative body, it may hold an election before the expiration of six months.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 701.
Source of truth
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- 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=43616.
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- 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
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