Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.923 · Chapter 2. Court-Ordered Reference Under Code of Civil Procedure Section 639
Selection and qualification 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 Code of Civil Procedure section 640. If the referee is a former California judicial officer, he or she must be an active or inactive member of the State Bar.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.923 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_923
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- sha256 02df1366e6bf237fb140c65f0f571cbc56f61a7a36e6dbc63704305588cd2355
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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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