{
  "section": "4910",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4910",
  "heading": "Board Action Outside a Meeting Prohibited",
  "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=4910.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/meetings",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "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": "2026-10-10",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://california.public.law/codes/ca_civ_code_section_4910",
      "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": "The board shall not take action on any item of business outside of a board meeting.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/meetings#s4910-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-1",
      "label": "(b)(1)",
      "text": "Notwithstanding Section 7211 of the Corporations Code, the board shall not conduct a meeting via a series of electronic transmissions, including, but not limited to, electronic mail, except as specified in paragraph (2).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/meetings#s4910-b-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-2",
      "label": "(b)(2)",
      "text": "Electronic transmissions may be used as a method of conducting an emergency board meeting if all directors, individually or collectively, consent in writing to that action, and if the written consent or consents are filed with the minutes of the board meeting. These written consents may be transmitted electronically.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/meetings#s4910-b-2"
    }
  ]
}