Elections Code section 10731

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a)

“Catastrophe” means a natural or man-made event that causes a vacancy in at least 101 of the offices of the United States House of Representatives, including at least one of the offices representing California, or at least one-fourth of the total number of offices representing California.

(b)

“Vacancy” means the death or disappearance, as a result of a catastrophe, of a Representative in Congress.

(c)

“Disappearance” means the inability to establish conclusively whether a Representative in Congress has survived a catastrophe.

Source: Section 10731, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=10731.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2011; accessed Jun. 25, 2025).

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