{
  "section": "5375",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 5375",
  "heading": "What a Prospective Managing Agent Must Disclose",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2018-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 127, Sec. 5. (AB 690) Effective January 1, 2018.",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 127, Sec. 5. (AB 690) Effective January 1, 2018.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=5375.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [
    {
      "effective": "2018-01-01",
      "change": "amended",
      "bill": "AB 690",
      "acts": [
        "AB 690"
      ],
      "attribution": "single",
      "citation": "Stats. 2017, Ch. 127 (AB 690)",
      "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 127, Sec. 5. (AB 690) Effective January 1, 2018.",
      "superseded_credit_line": "Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 180, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2013. Operative January 1, 2014, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 180.",
      "snapshot": 2017,
      "renumbered": {},
      "changes": [
        {
          "id": "a",
          "label": "(a)",
          "was_id": "a",
          "change": "amended",
          "was": ", including, but not limited to, a professional common interest development manager. If any certification or designation is held, the statement shall include the following information:",
          "now": "The names and business addresses of the owners or general partners of the managing agent. If the managing agent is a corporation, the written statement shall include the names and business addresses of the directors and officers and shareholders holding greater than 10 percent of the shares of the corporation."
        },
        {
          "id": "c",
          "label": "(c)",
          "was_id": "c",
          "change": "amended",
          "was": "Whether or not any relevant professional certifications or designations such as architectural design, construction, engineering, real property management, or accounting are currently held by any of the persons specified in subdivision",
          "now": "Whether or not any relevant professional certifications or designations such as architectural design, construction, engineering, real property management, or accounting are currently held by any of the persons specified in subdivision (a), including, but not limited to, a professional common interest development manager. If any certification or designation is held, the statement shall include the following information:"
        },
        {
          "id": "c-1",
          "label": "(c)(1)",
          "was_id": "a-1",
          "change": "moved",
          "was": "What the certification or designation is and what entity issued it.",
          "now": "What the certification or designation is and what entity issued it.",
          "was_label": "(a)(1)"
        },
        {
          "id": "c-2",
          "label": "(c)(2)",
          "was_id": "a-2",
          "change": "moved",
          "was": "The dates the certification or designation is valid.",
          "now": "The dates the certification or designation is valid.",
          "was_label": "(a)(2)"
        },
        {
          "id": "c-3",
          "label": "(c)(3)",
          "was_id": "a-3",
          "change": "moved",
          "was": "The names in which the certification or designation is held.",
          "now": "The names in which the certification or designation is held.",
          "was_label": "(a)(3)"
        },
        {
          "id": "d",
          "label": "(d)",
          "was_id": null,
          "change": "added",
          "was": null,
          "now": "Disclose any business or company in which the common interest development manager or common interest development management firm has any ownership interests, profit-sharing arrangements, or other monetary incentives provided to the management firm or managing agent."
        },
        {
          "id": "e",
          "label": "(e)",
          "was_id": null,
          "change": "added",
          "was": null,
          "now": "Whether or not the common interest development manager or common interest development management firm receives a referral fee or other monetary benefit from a third-party provider distributing documents pursuant to Sections 4528 and 4530."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "verified": "sources differ — see notes",
  "verification_note": "Text taken verbatim from the Legislative Counsel of California official code database and checked word for word against an independent publisher. The two sources disagree on one word: the official database reads “Sections 4528 and 4530” where california.public.law reads “Section”. The plural is what the Legislative Counsel publishes and is what the citation list requires. The same substitution appears at §§ 4210, 5310, 5350 and 5375 — in every case immediately before a list of two or more section numbers, and nowhere else, which is where the second source's own citation-linking rewrites the word.",
  "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_5375",
      "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": "A prospective managing agent of a common interest development shall provide a written statement to the board as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 90 days, before entering into a management agreement which shall contain all of the following information concerning the managing agent:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-intro"
    },
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "The names and business addresses of the owners or general partners of the managing agent. If the managing agent is a corporation, the written statement shall include the names and business addresses of the directors and officers and shareholders holding greater than 10 percent of the shares of the corporation.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "Whether or not any relevant licenses such as architectural design, construction, engineering, real estate, or accounting have been issued by this state and are currently held by the persons specified in subdivision (a). If a license is currently held by any of those persons, the statement shall contain the following information:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-1",
      "label": "(b)(1)",
      "text": "What license is held.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-b-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-2",
      "label": "(b)(2)",
      "text": "The dates the license is valid.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-b-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-3",
      "label": "(b)(3)",
      "text": "The name of the licensee appearing on that license.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-b-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "Whether or not any relevant professional certifications or designations such as architectural design, construction, engineering, real property management, or accounting are currently held by any of the persons specified in subdivision (a), including, but not limited to, a professional common interest development manager. If any certification or designation is held, the statement shall include the following information:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-c"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-1",
      "label": "(c)(1)",
      "text": "What the certification or designation is and what entity issued it.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-c-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-2",
      "label": "(c)(2)",
      "text": "The dates the certification or designation is valid.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-c-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3",
      "label": "(c)(3)",
      "text": "The names in which the certification or designation is held.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-c-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "d",
      "label": "(d)",
      "text": "Disclose any business or company in which the common interest development manager or common interest development management firm has any ownership interests, profit-sharing arrangements, or other monetary incentives provided to the management firm or managing agent.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-d"
    },
    {
      "id": "e",
      "label": "(e)",
      "text": "Whether or not the common interest development manager or common interest development management firm receives a referral fee or other monetary benefit from a third-party provider distributing documents pursuant to Sections 4528 and 4530.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/managing-agent#s5375-e"
    }
  ]
}