{
  "section": "4135",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4135",
  "heading": "“Declaration”",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2013-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 180, Sec. 2. (AB 805) Effective January 1, 2013. Operative January 1, 2014, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 180.",
  "official_credit_line": "Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 180, Sec. 2. (AB 805) Effective January 1, 2013. Operative January 1, 2014, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 180.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=4135.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/definitions",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [],
  "verified": "sources differ — see notes",
  "verification_note": "The Legislative Counsel's database and California Public Law differ, and the text here follows the official database. The official text reads “Sections 4250 and 4255” where Public Law prints the singular “Section” before the same list of numbers — their citation linker rewriting the plural, not a difference in the statute. Both versions run to the same word count and nothing else differs.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip",
      "accessed": "2026-10-12",
      "name": "leginfo (Legislative Counsel official bulk code database, LAW_SECTION_TBL)",
      "note": "Authoritative. Retrieved with tools/fetch.py, which reads the archive's central directory by HTTP range request and fetches only this section's member. The leginfo.legislature.ca.gov HTML page sits behind a bot challenge; this is the same database that backs it."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://california.public.law/codes/civil_code_section_4135",
      "accessed": "2026-10-12",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word.",
      "edition": "2025"
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "intro",
      "label": "",
      "text": "“Declaration” means the document, however denominated, that contains the information required by Sections 4250 and 4255.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/definitions#s4135-intro"
    }
  ]
}