SECTIONS 12260-12262 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 12260-12262

12260. (a) The elections official may change or alter any precinct
boundaries.
(b) If any changes or alterations are made the elections official
shall prepare new detail maps or exterior descriptions thereof, or
both. The county surveyor shall, if so requested, provide assistance
to the elections official in the preparation of the detail maps or
exterior descriptions.
(c) The elections official shall provide, at the request of any
interested person, the following information:
(1) All precinct boundary changes and alterations made within the
current calendar year and the immediately preceding two calendar
years.
(2) All precinct consolidations made within the current calendar
year and the immediately preceding two calendar years, specifying the
election or elections in which the consolidations were made.
(d) The information provided to persons pursuant to subdivision
(c) shall include the precinct numbers before the change or
alteration and then a description, including precinct numbers, of the
changes or alterations. The description may include maps.
(e) The information described in subdivisions (c) and (d) shall be
compiled for each calendar year and shall be kept and filed so as to
be accessible to any person upon request.
(f) The elections official may charge a person requesting
information the amount needed to reimburse the jurisdiction for the
actual expenses incurred in providing copies of the information
required under this section.

12261. (a) The boundaries of precincts for the general election
shall be the same as those established for the direct primary
election, except to the extent necessary to add or subtract precincts
as the result of population change or to divide precincts containing
more than 1,000 voters or to change precinct boundaries due to
jurisdictional boundary changes, or consolidations of elections.
Changes of precinct boundaries may also be made when consolidating
precincts.
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2005.

12262. Jurisdictional boundary changes occurring less than 88 days
before an election shall not be effective for purposes of that
election. Voters residing within an area affected by a boundary
change, occurring within 88 days before an election, shall vote at
the ensuing election in all respects as if no boundary change had
occurred. However, any district that holds a general district
election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of
an odd-numbered year shall complete any boundary change not less than
130 days prior to the election in order to comply with Section
10522.