{
  "section": "5610",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 5610",
  "heading": "Emergency Increases Outside the Caps",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2025-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 288, Sec. 3. (SB 900) Effective January 1, 2025.",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 288, Sec. 3. (SB 900) Effective January 1, 2025.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=5610.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/assessments",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [
    {
      "effective": "2025-01-01",
      "change": "amended",
      "bill": "SB 900",
      "acts": [
        "SB 900"
      ],
      "attribution": "single",
      "citation": "Stats. 2024, Ch. 288 (SB 900)",
      "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 288, Sec. 3. (SB 900) Effective January 1, 2025.",
      "superseded_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.",
      "snapshot": 2025,
      "renumbered": {},
      "changes": [
        {
          "id": "b",
          "label": "(b)",
          "was_id": "b",
          "change": "amended",
          "was": "An extraordinary expense necessary to repair or maintain the common interest development or any part of it for which the association is responsible where a threat to personal safety on the property is discovered.",
          "now": "An extraordinary expense necessary to operate, repair, or maintain the common interest development or any part of it for which the association is responsible where a threat to personal health or safety or another hazardous condition or circumstance on the property is discovered."
        },
        {
          "id": "c",
          "label": "(c)",
          "was_id": "c",
          "change": "amended",
          "was": "An extraordinary expense necessary to repair or maintain the common interest development or any part of it for which the association is responsible that could not have been reasonably foreseen by the board in preparing and distributing the annual budget report under Section 5300. However, prior to the imposition or collection of an assessment under this subdivision, the board shall pass a resolution containing written findings as to the necessity of the extraordinary expense involved and why the expense was not or could not have been reasonably foreseen in the budgeting process, and the resolution shall be distributed to the members with the notice of assessment.",
          "now": "An extraordinary expense necessary to repair or maintain the common interest development or any part of it for which the association is responsible that could not have been reasonably foreseen by the board in preparing and distributing the annual budget report under Section 5300. However, before the imposition or collection of an assessment under this subdivision, the board shall pass a resolution containing written findings as to the necessity of the extraordinary expense involved and why the expense was not or could not have been reasonably foreseen in the budgeting process, and the resolution shall be distributed to the members with the notice of assessment."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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_5610",
      "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": "Section 5605 does not limit assessment increases necessary for emergency situations. For purposes of this section, an emergency situation is any one of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/assessments#s5610-intro"
    },
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "An extraordinary expense required by an order of a court.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/assessments#s5610-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "An extraordinary expense necessary to operate, repair, or maintain the common interest development or any part of it for which the association is responsible where a threat to personal health or safety or another hazardous condition or circumstance on the property is discovered.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/assessments#s5610-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "An extraordinary expense necessary to repair or maintain the common interest development or any part of it for which the association is responsible that could not have been reasonably foreseen by the board in preparing and distributing the annual budget report under Section 5300. However, before the imposition or collection of an assessment under this subdivision, the board shall pass a resolution containing written findings as to the necessity of the extraordinary expense involved and why the expense was not or could not have been reasonably foreseen in the budgeting process, and the resolution shall be distributed to the members with the notice of assessment.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/assessments#s5610-c"
    }
  ]
}