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PROPONENTS OF LOCAL INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM
PURSUANT TO ELECTION CODE SECTION 29410
The following sections of the Elections Code and Government Code do not constitute all of the
law pertaining to their subject matter. However, Section 29410 of the Elections Code requires
that you be provided with the full text of these particular sections at the time of filing your dec-
laration of candidacy or petition for local initiative or referendum.
ELECTION CODE SECTION 29410:
(a) Every person, other than a public officer in the performance of an official duty, is
guilty of a misdemeanor who causes to be prepared, reproduced by any means including,
but not limited to, printing, photocopying, mimeographing, or silkscreening, posted, or
distributed any circular, pamphlet, letter, poster, bill, or other reproduced matter having
reference to an election, to any candidate, or to any measure unless there appears on the
circular, pamphlet, letter, poster, bill, or other reproduced matter in no less than six-point
type not subjected to the halftone process the name and address of the business or residence
of a person responsible for it.
If the responsible person is acting on behalf of a campaign committee which has filed a
statement of organization with the Secretary of State under the provisions of the Political
Reform Act of 1974, as amended, the name and address to appear on the reproduced matter
may be the name and address of the campaign committee.
(b) Any circular, pamphlet, letter, poster, bill, or other reproduced matter having refer-
ence to an election, candidate, or measure, which contains no more information than the
following items which appear on the ballot: the date of the election, the nature of the elec-
tion (e. g., primary, general, special, runoff), the name of the jurisdiction (e. g., Alhambra
City, Los Angeles Community College District), and, in the case of a candidate, the name
of the candidate, the title of the office, including district number, if any, and in the case
of a partisan office, the candidate's party designation, or, in the case of a measure, the
title of the measure and its number or letter designation, and the use of the words "Yes
on," "No on," "Vote for," "Elect," "Reeled," "Retain," "Return," "Recall," "Remove,"^_ "oppose , "
and "Support" is exempted from the identification requirements of subdivision (a); pro- "reject "
vided, however, that a mass mailing as defined in Section 82041.5 of the Government Code "keen " '
shall comply with Section 84305 of the Government Code. ., j ' r.
(c) Any circular, pamphlet, letter, poster, bill, or other reproduced matter referring only '
to candidates for federal office and subject to the requirements of Section 44 Id of Title 2
of the United States Code is exempt from the identification requirements of subdivision (a).
(d) A copy of this Elections Code section and Section 84305 of the Government Code
shall be provided by the clerk to each candidate or his agent at the time of filing the decla-
ration of candidacy and to the proponents of a local initiative or referendum at the time of
filing the petitions. In the case of a statewide initiative or referendum, the Secretary of
State shall provide a copy of this Elections Code section to the proponents of the measure
within a reasonable time following receipt of the title and summary from the Attorney
General as provided in Section 3503.
GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 84305:
No person shall make an expenditure for the purpose of sending a mass mailing unless
the sender shows on the outside of each piece of mail in the mass mailing and on at least
one of the inserts included within each piece of mail of such mailing the sender's name,
street address and city in no less than six-point type. A post office box may be stated
in lieu of a street address if the organization's address is a matter of public record with the
Secretary of State. A mdpin gf jimr; maif mailing in rapport of or i«i oppooition to a ciaie
candidate or otate mmaun ahall be se*( to tin wmmissun en tht game duy en H'hith it
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Section 29410 of the Elections Code shall not apply to any mass mailing which complies
with this section.
(Note: It is suggested that the official accepting the filing from a candidate for office or the filing
of a petition for initiative or referendum secure a receipt from the person filing acknowledging
receipt of the document).
FORM NO. E-812 (1-78) DIAMOND INTERNATIONAL