California · Chapter 916, Statutes of 2026
AB 2035 — a 37 percent threshold for older senior developments
A narrow second route through the vote threshold that keeps old declarations from ever being amended.
An act to amend Section 4275 of the Civil Code
Not yet in force. This act was signed on 30 September 2026 and takes effect on 1 January 2027. Until then the text on the section pages is the text that governs, and the difference below is shown under it there as well.
Civil Code § 4275 lets an association petition the court to reduce the percentage of affirmative votes its declaration demands, when it has tried and failed to reach it. One of the conditions the court must find is that more than 50 percent of the votes were cast in favour.
This act splits that condition in two and adds an alternative: more than 37 percent, where the development is a senior citizen housing development under § 51.3(b)(4), has more than 6,000 separate interests, has more than 25 percent of its separate interests occupied by tenants, and its declaration has not been amended in at least 35 years.
All four must hold. The combination describes a specific problem rather than a general loosening: a very large, very old community where enough owners have become landlords that an absolute majority of the voting power can no longer be assembled on anything.
What it changed, section by section
Read from the chaptered text of this act and compared with the text in force, subdivision by subdivision — deletions struck, insertions underlined, renumbering separated from substance.
§ 4275
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- (c)(4)amended
Members having more than 50 percentEither of thevotes, in a single class voting structure, voted in favor of the amendment. In a voting structure with more than one class, where the declaration requires a majority of more than one class to vote in favor of the amendment, members having more than 50 percent of the votes of each class required by the declaration to vote in favor of the amendment voted in favor of the amendment.following: - (c)(4)(A)addedMembers having more than 50 percent of the votes, in a single class voting structure, voted in favor of the amendment. In a voting structure with more than one class, where the declaration requires a majority of more than one class to vote in favor of the amendment, members having more than 50 percent of the votes of each class required by the declaration to vote in favor of the …
- (c)(4)(B)addedMembers having more than 37 percent of votes, in a single class voting structure, voted in favor of the amendment and all of the following criteria are met:
- (c)(4)(B)(i)addedThe common interest development is a senior citizen housing development, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 51.3.
- (c)(4)(B)(ii)addedThe common interest development has more than 6,000 separate interests.
- (c)(4)(B)(iii)addedMore than 25 percent of the separate interests in the common interest development are occupied by tenants.
- (c)(4)(B)(iv)addedThe declaration has not been amended in at least 35 years.
Compared against the text this site publishes, which is the text in force until the date above.
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