BILL NUMBER: AB 2113	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 24001 of the Government Code, relating to
local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 24001 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   24001.  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27550.1 and
27641.1 or in this section, or in Section 21123 or 34711 of the Water
Code, or in any landowner voting district, as defined in paragraph
(8) of subdivision (b) of Section 10500 of the Elections Code, a
person is not eligible to  a   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 that nomination papers are issued to the
person or at the time of the appointment of the person.
  person to an elective office. 
   The board of supervisors or any other legally constituted
appointing authority in a county or district may, if it finds that
the best interests of the county or district will be served, waive
the requirements of this section for an appointed county or district
office.