{
  "section": "4280",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4280",
  "heading": "The Statement in the Articles of Incorporation",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2014-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 605, Sec. 20. (SB 752) Effective January 1, 2014.",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 605, Sec. 20. (SB 752) Effective January 1, 2014.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=4280.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [],
  "verified": "two sources agree",
  "last_checked": "2026-11-03",
  "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": "2026-10-12",
      "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_4280",
      "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": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "The articles of incorporation of an association filed with the Secretary of State shall include a statement, which shall be in addition to the statement of purposes of the corporation, that does all of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents#s4280-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-1",
      "label": "(a)(1)",
      "text": "Identifies the corporation as an association formed to manage a common interest development under the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents#s4280-a-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-2",
      "label": "(a)(2)",
      "text": "States the business or corporate office of the association, if any, and, if the office is not on the site of the common interest development, states the front street and nearest cross street for the physical location of the common interest development.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents#s4280-a-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3",
      "label": "(a)(3)",
      "text": "States the name and address of the association’s managing agent, if any.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents#s4280-a-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "The statement filed by an incorporated association with the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 8210 of the Corporations Code shall also contain a statement identifying the corporation as an association formed to manage a common interest development under the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents#s4280-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "Documents filed prior to January 1, 2014, in compliance with former Section 1363.5, as it read on January 1, 2013, are deemed to be in compliance with this section.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/governing-documents#s4280-c"
    }
  ]
}