Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.804 · Chapter 1. General Rules Applicable to Appellate Division Proceedings
Requirements for signatures on documents
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Except as otherwise provided, or required by order of the court, signatures on electronically filed documents must comply with the requirements of rule 8.77.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.804 adopted effective January 1, 2016.
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/eight/rule8_804
- Text hash
- sha256 4ab730ab80b27c616378d46de67bb1f570c7e9430b19f2095b8a71368888c796
- Composed by
- 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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Cited by 6 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.804. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
California Rules of Court
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.822Time to appealPrinted as rule 8.804(23)
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.837Statement on appealPrinted as rule 8.804
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.854Stay of execution and release on appealPrinted as rule 8.804
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.869Statement on appealPrinted as rule 8.804
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.903Stay of execution on appealPrinted as rule 8.804
- Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.916Statement on appealPrinted as rule 8.804
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