SECTIONS 22000 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 22000

22000. (a) Each district required by its authorizing act to adjust
division boundaries pursuant to this section shall, by resolution,
after each federal decennial census, and using that census as a
basis, adjust the boundaries of any divisions so that the divisions
are, as far as practicable, equal in population and in compliance
with Section 1973 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended,
to the extent those provisions are applicable. In adjusting the
boundaries of the district, the board may give consideration to the
following factors: (1) topography, (2) geography, (3) cohesiveness,
contiguity, integrity, and compactness of territory, and (4)
community of interests of the district. This section does not apply
to districts in which only landowners vote for directors or whose
directors are all elected at large or appointed.
(b) The resolution specified in subdivision (a) shall be adopted
by a vote of not less than a majority of the directors.
(c) At the time of, or after, any annexation of territory to the
district, the board of directors shall designate, by resolution, the
division of which the annexed territory shall be a part.
(d) No change in division boundaries may be made within 180 days
preceding the election of any director.
(e) (1) A change in division boundaries shall not affect the term
of office of any director.
(2) If division boundaries are adjusted, the director of the
division whose boundaries have been adjusted shall continue to be the
director of the division bearing the number of his or her division
as formerly comprised until the office becomes vacant by means of
term expiration or otherwise, whether or not the director is a
resident within the boundaries of the division as adjusted.
(f) The successor to the office in a division whose boundaries
have been adjusted shall be a resident and voter of that division.
(g) A district is not required to adjust the boundaries of any
divisions pursuant to this section until after the 2000 federal
decennial census.
(h) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or
restrict a district from adjusting the boundaries of any divisions
whenever the governing body of the district determines by a
two-thirds vote of the governing body that a sufficient change in
population has occurred that makes it desirable in the opinion of the
governing body to adjust the boundaries of any divisions, or
whenever any territory is added by or excluded from the district.