{
  "section": "4355",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4355",
  "heading": "Which Operating Rules the Rule-Change Procedure Reaches",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2013-01-01",
  "amended_by": "AB 805 (2012)",
  "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=4355.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/rules",
  "verified": "sources differ — see notes",
  "verification_note": "Subdivisions (a) and (b) open “Sections 4360 and 4365” in the Legislative Counsel's database and “Section 4360 and 4365” in California Public Law. The text here follows the official database. Everything else in the section reads identically in both.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip",
      "accessed": "2026-10-10",
      "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/ca_civ_code_section_4355",
      "accessed": "2026-10-10",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word."
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "Sections 4360 and 4365 only apply to an operating rule that relates to one or more of the following subjects:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-1",
      "label": "(a)(1)",
      "text": "Use of the common area or of an exclusive use common area.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-2",
      "label": "(a)(2)",
      "text": "Use of a separate interest, including any aesthetic or architectural standards that govern alteration of a separate interest.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3",
      "label": "(a)(3)",
      "text": "Member discipline, including any schedule of monetary penalties for violation of the governing documents and any procedure for the imposition of penalties.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-4",
      "label": "(a)(4)",
      "text": "Any standards for delinquent assessment payment plans.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-4"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-5",
      "label": "(a)(5)",
      "text": "Any procedures adopted by the association for resolution of disputes.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-5"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-6",
      "label": "(a)(6)",
      "text": "Any procedures for reviewing and approving or disapproving a proposed physical change to a member’s separate interest or to the common area.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-6"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-7",
      "label": "(a)(7)",
      "text": "Procedures for elections.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-a-7"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "Sections 4360 and 4365 do not apply to the following actions by the board:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-1",
      "label": "(b)(1)",
      "text": "A decision regarding maintenance of the common area.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-b-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-2",
      "label": "(b)(2)",
      "text": "A decision on a specific matter that is not intended to apply generally.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-b-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-3",
      "label": "(b)(3)",
      "text": "A decision setting the amount of a regular or special assessment.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-b-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-4",
      "label": "(b)(4)",
      "text": "A rule change that is required by law, if the board has no discretion as to the substantive effect of the rule change.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-b-4"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-5",
      "label": "(b)(5)",
      "text": "Issuance of a document that merely repeats existing law or the governing documents.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/rules#s4355-b-5"
    }
  ]
}