{
  "section": "5980",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 5980",
  "heading": "The Association's Standing to Sue in Its Own Name",
  "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=5980.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/enforcement",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [],
  "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": "2026-10-12",
      "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_5980",
      "accessed": "2026-10-12",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word.",
      "edition": "2025"
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "intro",
      "label": "",
      "text": "An association has standing to institute, defend, settle, or intervene in litigation, arbitration, mediation, or administrative proceedings in its own name as the real party in interest and without joining with it the members, in matters pertaining to the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/enforcement#s5980-intro"
    },
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "Enforcement of the governing documents.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/enforcement#s5980-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "Damage to the common area.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/enforcement#s5980-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "Damage to a separate interest that the association is obligated to maintain or repair.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/enforcement#s5980-c"
    },
    {
      "id": "d",
      "label": "(d)",
      "text": "Damage to a separate interest that arises out of, or is integrally related to, damage to the common area or a separate interest that the association is obligated to maintain or repair.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/enforcement#s5980-d"
    }
  ]
}