{
  "section": "4700",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4700",
  "heading": "Scope — Limits on the Authority of an Association",
  "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=4700.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance",
  "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 712 and 713”, “Sections 714 and 714.1”, “Sections 782, 782.5, and 6150” 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": "2026-10-11",
      "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_4700",
      "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": "intro",
      "label": "",
      "text": "This article includes provisions that limit the authority of an association or the governing documents to regulate the use of a member’s separate interest. Nothing in this article is intended to affect the application of any other provision that limits the authority of an association to regulate the use of a member’s separate interest, including, but not limited to, the following provisions:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-intro"
    },
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "Sections 712 and 713, relating to the display of signs.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "Sections 714 and 714.1, relating to solar energy systems.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "Section 714.5, relating to structures that are constructed offsite and moved to the property in sections or modules.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-c"
    },
    {
      "id": "d",
      "label": "(d)",
      "text": "Sections 782, 782.5, and 6150 of this code and Section 12956.1 of the Government Code, relating to racial restrictions.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-d"
    },
    {
      "id": "e",
      "label": "(e)",
      "text": "Section 12927 of the Government Code, relating to the modification of property to accommodate a disability.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-e"
    },
    {
      "id": "f",
      "label": "(f)",
      "text": "Section 1597.40 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the operation of a family day care home.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/maintenance#s4700-f"
    }
  ]
}