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DIVISION 10. LOCAL, SPECIAL, VACANCY, AND CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS 10000-10735›PART 6. ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCIES 10700-10735›CHAPTER 3. Vacancies in Congressional Offices caused by Catastrophe 10730-10735

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California Elections Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Catastrophe” means a natural or man-made event that causes a vacancy in at least 101 of the offices of the United States House of Representatives, including at least one of the offices representing California, or at least one-fourth of the total number of offices representing California.

(b) “Vacancy” means the death or disappearance, as a result of a catastrophe, of a Representative in Congress.

(c) “Disappearance” means the inability to establish conclusively whether a Representative in Congress has survived a catastrophe.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 306, Sec. 3. (SB 211) Effective January 1, 2011.)

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