Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 726, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2006.
(a)Prior to allowing a person to circulate an initiative petition for signatures, the person, company official, or other organizational officer who is in charge of signature gathering shall execute and submit to the proponents a signed statement that reads as follows:
(b)The certification required by subdivision (a) shall be kept on file by the proponents of the proposed initiative measure for not less than eight months after the certification of the results of the election for which the measure qualified, or if the measure, for any
reason, is not submitted to the voters, eight months after the deadline for submission of the petition to the elections official.
(c)Failure to comply with this section shall not invalidate any signatures on a state or local initiative petition.
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