{
  "section": "4750",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4750",
  "heading": "Personal Agriculture in a Backyard",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2015-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 584, Sec. 3. (AB 2561) Effective January 1, 2015.",
  "official_credit_line": "Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 584, Sec. 3. (AB 2561) Effective January 1, 2015.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=4750.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [],
  "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_4750",
      "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": "For the purposes of this section, “personal agriculture” has the same definition as in Section 1940.10.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets#s4750-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "Any provision of a governing document, as defined in Section 4150, shall be void and unenforceable if it effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the use of a homeowner’s backyard for personal agriculture.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets#s4750-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-1",
      "label": "(c)(1)",
      "text": "This section does not apply to provisions that impose reasonable restrictions on the use of a homeowner’s yard for personal agriculture.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets#s4750-c-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-2",
      "label": "(c)(2)",
      "text": "For purposes of this section, “reasonable restrictions” are restrictions that do not significantly increase the cost of engaging in personal agriculture or significantly decrease its efficiency.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets#s4750-c-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "d",
      "label": "(d)",
      "text": "This section applies only to yards that are designated for the exclusive use of the homeowner.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets#s4750-d"
    },
    {
      "id": "e",
      "label": "(e)",
      "text": "This section shall not prohibit a homeowners’ association from applying rules and regulations requiring that dead plant material and weeds, with the exception of straw, mulch, compost, and other organic materials intended to encourage vegetation and retention of moisture in the soil, are regularly cleared from the backyard.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/pets#s4750-e"
    }
  ]
}