{
  "section": "5200",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 5200",
  "heading": "Definitions for Record Inspection Article",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2026-01-01",
  "amended_by": "SB 410 (2025) — Stats. 2025, Ch. 516, Sec. 3",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 516, Sec. 3. (SB 410) Effective January 1, 2026.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=5200.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/s5125",
  "verified": "sources differ — see notes",
  "verification_note": "Second-source discrepancy in (a)(1): the official Legislative Counsel database reads \"in Sections 5565 and 5810\" (plural), while california.public.law renders \"in Section 5565 and 5810\". The official reading is adopted as authoritative; the public.law form appears to be an artifact of that site's automatic citation linking, and the plural is grammatically required by the two cited sections. No other word-level differences between the two sources. Text taken verbatim from the Legislative Counsel of California official code database (LAW_SECTION_TBL in pubinfo_2025.zip, the same data that backs leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) and independently compared word-by-word against california.public.law. The only differences were whitespace artifacts around hyperlinked section citations on public.law (e.g. \"Section 5105 .\"), not textual differences. The \"heading\" field is an editorial descriptive label written for this dataset; California Civil Code sections carry no official heading in the statutory text itself.",
  "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. The leginfo.legislature.ca.gov HTML page for this section (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=5200.) returned HTTP 403 (Cloudflare bot challenge) on 2026-10-10; the official bulk download of the same database was used instead."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://california.public.law/codes/ca_civ_code_section_5200",
      "accessed": "2026-10-10",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher. Edition shown: updated Jan. 1, 2026, matching the official credit line."
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "intro",
      "label": "",
      "text": "For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-intro"
    },
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "“Association records” means all of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-1",
      "label": "(a)(1)",
      "text": "Any financial document required to be provided to a member in Article 7 (commencing with Section 5300) or in Sections 5565 and 5810.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-2",
      "label": "(a)(2)",
      "text": "Any financial document or statement required to be provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 4525) of Chapter 4.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3",
      "label": "(a)(3)",
      "text": "Interim financial statements, periodic or as compiled, containing any of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3-A",
      "label": "(a)(3)(A)",
      "text": "Balance sheet.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-3-A"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3-B",
      "label": "(a)(3)(B)",
      "text": "Income and expense statement.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-3-B"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3-C",
      "label": "(a)(3)(C)",
      "text": "Budget comparison.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-3-C"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3-D",
      "label": "(a)(3)(D)",
      "text": "General ledger. A “general ledger” is a report that shows all transactions that occurred in an association account over a specified period of time.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-3-D"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-3-continued",
      "label": "(a)(3) [concluding text]",
      "text": "The records described in this paragraph shall be prepared in accordance with an accrual or modified accrual basis of accounting.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-3-continued"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-4",
      "label": "(a)(4)",
      "text": "Executed contracts not otherwise privileged under law.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-4"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-5",
      "label": "(a)(5)",
      "text": "Written board approval of vendor or contractor proposals or invoices.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-5"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-6",
      "label": "(a)(6)",
      "text": "State and federal tax returns.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-6"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-7",
      "label": "(a)(7)",
      "text": "Reserve account balances and records of payments made from reserve accounts.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-7"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-8",
      "label": "(a)(8)",
      "text": "Agendas and minutes of meetings of the members, the board, and any committees appointed by the board pursuant to Section 7212 of the Corporations Code; excluding, however, minutes and other information from executive sessions of the board as described in Article 2 (commencing with Section 4900).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-8"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-9",
      "label": "(a)(9)",
      "text": "Membership lists, including name, property address, mailing address, email address, as collected by the association in accordance with Section 4041 where applicable, but not including information for members who have opted out pursuant to Section 5220.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-9"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-10",
      "label": "(a)(10)",
      "text": "Check registers.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-10"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-11",
      "label": "(a)(11)",
      "text": "The governing documents.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-12",
      "label": "(a)(12)",
      "text": "An accounting prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 5520.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-12"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-13",
      "label": "(a)(13)",
      "text": "An “enhanced association record” as defined in subdivision (b).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-13"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-14",
      "label": "(a)(14)",
      "text": "“Association election materials” as defined in subdivision (c).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-14"
    },
    {
      "id": "a-15",
      "label": "(a)(15)",
      "text": "All inspector’s reports compiled pursuant to Section 5551.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-a-15"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "“Enhanced association records” means invoices, receipts, and canceled checks for payments made by the association, purchase orders approved by the association, bank account statements for bank accounts in which assessments are deposited or withdrawn, credit card statements for credit cards issued in the name of the association, statements for services rendered, and reimbursement requests submitted to the association.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "“Association election materials” means returned ballots, signed voter envelopes, the voter list of names, parcel numbers, and voters to whom ballots were to be sent, proxies, the candidate registration list, and the tally sheet of votes cast by electronic secret ballot. Signed voter envelopes may be inspected but may not be copied. An association shall maintain association election materials for one year after the date of the election.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5125#s5200-c"
    }
  ]
}