{
  "section": "4270",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4270",
  "heading": "Amending the Declaration — Approval, Certification, Recording",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2017-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 714, Sec. 6. (SB 944) Effective January 1, 2017.",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 714, Sec. 6. (SB 944) Effective January 1, 2017.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=4270.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/declaration",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [
    {
      "effective": "2017-01-01",
      "change": "amended",
      "bill": "SB 944",
      "acts": [
        "SB 944"
      ],
      "attribution": "single",
      "citation": "Stats. 2016, Ch. 714 (SB 944)",
      "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 714, Sec. 6. (SB 944) Effective January 1, 2017.",
      "superseded_credit_line": "Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 180, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2013. Operative January 1, 2014, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 180.",
      "snapshot": 2017,
      "renumbered": {},
      "changes": [
        {
          "id": "a",
          "label": "(a)",
          "was_id": "a",
          "change": "amended",
          "was": "A declaration may be amended pursuant to the declaration or this act. Except as provided in Section 4275, an amendment is effective after all of the following requirements have been met:",
          "now": "A declaration may be amended pursuant to the declaration or this act. Except where an alternative process for approving, certifying, or recording an amendment is provided in Section 4225, 4230, 4235, or 4275, an amendment is effective after all of the following requirements have been met:"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "verified": "two sources agree",
  "verification_note": "Text taken verbatim from the Legislative Counsel of California official code database and checked word for word against an independent publisher.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11",
      "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_4270",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word.",
      "edition": "2025"
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "A declaration may be amended pursuant to the declaration or this act. Except where an alternative process for approving, certifying, or recording an amendment is provided in Section 4225, 4230, 4235, or 4275, an amendment is effective after all of the following requirements have been met:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/declaration#s4270-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-1",
      "label": "(a)(1)",
      "text": "The amendment has been approved by the percentage of members required by the declaration and any other person whose approval is required by the declaration.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/declaration#s4270-a-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-2",
      "label": "(a)(2)",
      "text": "That fact has been certified in a writing executed and acknowledged by the officer designated in the declaration or by the association for that purpose, or if no one is designated, by the president of the association.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/declaration#s4270-a-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3",
      "label": "(a)(3)",
      "text": "The amendment has been recorded in each county in which a portion of the common interest development is located.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/declaration#s4270-a-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "If the declaration does not specify the percentage of members who must approve an amendment of the declaration, an amendment may be approved by a majority of all members, pursuant to Section 4065.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/declaration#s4270-b"
    }
  ]
}