{
  "section": "5710",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 5710",
  "heading": "The Trustee's Sale, and the Cap on Trustee Fees",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2013-01-01",
  "amended_by": "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_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=5710.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/collection",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [],
  "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, and here the second source prints a different statute. The official database reads “Sections 2924, 2924b, and 2924c”; california.public.law renders the middle citation as “2924”, so its text cites Civil Code § 2924 twice and § 2924b not at all — confirmed in the body of its page for this section, where the string “2924b” does not appear. The two are different provisions: § 2924 is the notice of default, § 2924b the mailing of notices in a nonjudicial foreclosure. A reader following the second source would look up the wrong section at the point where the notice requirements matter most. The same substitution appears at § 5710 and § 5725.",
  "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_5710",
      "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": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "Any sale by the trustee shall be conducted in accordance with Sections 2924, 2924b, and 2924c applicable to the exercise of powers of sale in mortgages and deeds of trust.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/collection#s5710-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "In addition to the requirements of Section 2924, the association shall serve a notice of default on the person named as the owner of the separate interest in the association’s records or, if that person has designated a legal representative pursuant to this subdivision, on that legal representative. Service shall be in accordance with the manner of service of summons in Article 3 (commencing with Section 415.10) of Chapter 4 of Title 5 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure. An owner may designate a legal representative in a writing that is mailed to the association in a manner that indicates that the association has received it.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/collection#s5710-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "The fees of a trustee may not exceed the amounts prescribed in Sections 2924c and 2924d, plus the cost of service for either of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/collection#s5710-c"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-1",
      "label": "(c)(1)",
      "text": "The notice of default pursuant to subdivision (b).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/collection#s5710-c-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "c-2",
      "label": "(c)(2)",
      "text": "The decision of the board to foreclose upon the separate interest of an owner as described in subdivision (d) of Section 5705.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/collection#s5710-c-2"
    }
  ]
}