BILL NUMBER: AB 1504	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 10304 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1504, as introduced, Alejo. Emergency elections in cities.
   Existing law requires the Governor to appoint 3 persons to a board
of election commissioners for a city upon being satisfied of the
truth of the matters set forth in a petition presented to the
Governor by the voters of the city that, among other things, the city
has failed to elect officers in accordance with its charter and
there are no officers to carry on the city government, or the city
has failed to call an election of officers. Existing law requires the
Governor to issue a commission to the commissioners, and provides
that issuance of the commission is conclusive evidence of the
regularity of all the proceedings to and including the appointment of
the commissioners.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10304 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   10304.  The Governor shall issue a commission to the
commissioners, and the issuance of the commission shall be conclusive
evidence of the regularity of all the proceedings to and including
the appointment of the commissioners. Within 10 days after their
appointment, the commissioners shall take the constitutional oath of
office before  some   an  officer
authorized to administer oaths. The oath shall be indorsed upon the
commission, and a copy filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
The commission shall organize by the election of a president and
secretary from their own members. The commission shall keep minutes
of all its proceedings, which minutes shall be signed at the close of
each meeting by the president and secretary.