Gov. Code, § 58131 · Article 5. Formation
Gov. Code, § 58131
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The election shall be called and conducted, and any candidates shall be nominated as in general district elections except:
(a) The supervising authority shall establish election precincts, designate the polling places, publish notice, and appoint the election board.
(b) The election returns shall be forwarded to the supervising authority which shall canvass them and declare the election results at its next regular meeting following the election.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 331.
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=58131.
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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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