Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.903 · Chapter 1. Reference by Agreement of the Parties Under Code of Civil Procedure Section 638
Selection and qualifications of referee
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Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The court must appoint the referee or referees as provided in the Code of Civil Procedure section 640. If the proposed referee is a former judicial officer, he or she must be an active or an inactive member of the State Bar.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.903 adopted effective January 1, 2007.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/three/rule3_903
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- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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Code of Civil Procedure
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