{
  "section": "5220",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 5220",
  "heading": "Member Opt-Out of Membership List Sharing",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2022-01-01",
  "amended_by": "SB 392 (2021)",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 640, Sec. 7. (SB 392) Effective January 1, 2022.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=5220.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/s5260",
  "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. 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_5220",
      "accessed": "2026-10-10",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word."
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "intro",
      "label": "",
      "text": "A member of the association may opt out of the sharing of that member’s name, property address, email address, and mailing address by notifying the association in writing that the member prefers to be contacted via the alternative process described in subdivision (c) of Section 8330 of the Corporations Code. This opt-out shall remain in effect until changed by the member.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/s5260#s5220-intro"
    }
  ]
}