AB 2113, as introduced, Bigelow. Counties: officers: qualification for office.
Existing law provides that a person is not eligible to hold a county or district office, unless he or she is a registered voter of the county or district in which the duties of the office are to be exercised at the time of nomination or appointment.
This bill would instead provide that a person is not eligible to hold an elected county or district office unless he or she is a registered voter of the county or district in which the duties of the office are to be exercised at the time nomination papers are issued to the person or at the time of the appointment to an elective office.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 24001 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27550.1 and
427641.1 or in this section, or in Section 21123 or 34711 of the
5Water Code, or in any landowner voting district, as defined in
P2 1paragraph (8) of subdivision (b) of Section 10500 of the Elections
2Code, a person is not eligible tobegin delete aend deletebegin insert hold an electedend insert county or district
3office, unless he or she is a registered voter of the county or district
4in which the duties of the office are to be exercised at the time that
5nomination papers are issued to the person or at the time of the
6appointment of thebegin delete person.end deletebegin insert
person to an elective office.end insert
7The board of supervisors or any other legally constituted
8appointing authority in a county or district may, if it finds that the
9best interests of the county or district will be served, waive the
10requirements of this section for an appointed county or district
11office.
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