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Effective Jan 1, 2024Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 343, Sec. 18. (AB 764) Effective January 1, 2024.
(a) After redistricting or districting, a board shall not adopt new supervisorial district boundaries until after the next federal decennial census, except under the following circumstances:
- (1) A court orders the board to redistrict.
- (2) The board is settling a legal claim that its supervisorial district boundaries violate the United States Constitution, the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 10301 et seq.), or this chapter.
- (3) The boundaries of the county change by the addition or subtraction of territory.
- (4) The number of supervisors elected by districts or from districts is increased or decreased.
- (5) An independent redistricting commission is established pursuant to Section 23003 to adopt new supervisorial districts between federal decennial censuses and the districts being replaced were adopted by the board of supervisors.
- (b) This section does not prohibit a board from adopting supervisorial districts between federal decennial censuses if the board is adopting supervisorial districts for the first time, including when a board adopts supervisorial districts for the purpose of transitioning from electing its supervisors in at-large elections to elections by districts or from districts.