Article 5. District Committees of California Elections Code >> Division 7. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 5.

This article applies only to committees established by Assembly districts or supervisorial districts within a county pursuant to the bylaws of the county central committee of that county.

The committees shall be called county Assembly district committees or county supervisorial district committees.

Each committee shall consist of the persons elected to the county central committee of a single Assembly or supervisorial district.

The district committees of a county and the ex officio members of the county central committee constitute the county central committee of that county.

The district committees may elect any officers and undertake any action as the bylaws of the county central committee of which they are a part provide.

In the event that the candidates elected to a district committee do not equal the number of party committeemembers by which the district is entitled to be represented under Article 1 (commencing with Section 7400), a vacancy or vacancies exist to the extent of the difference between the number of elected committeemembers and the number of committeemembers by which the district is entitled to be represented. When a vacancy or vacancies exist, they shall be filled by the district committee to which insufficient members were elected.

In the event of the appointment or election to a district committee of an ineligible person, or whenever any member of the committee dies, resigns or becomes incapacitated to act, is removed from office, or removes from the jurisdiction of the district committee, or ceases to be a member of this party, a vacancy exists which shall be filled by appointment by the district committee in which the ineligibility or vacancy occurs.

Any member of a district committee who misses more than three consecutive regularly called meetings of the county central committee may be removed by a vote of that district committee concerned, unless his or her absence is caused by illness or temporary absence from the county on the date of the meeting.

The removal of residence by an elected or appointed member of a district committee from the Assembly district or supervisorial district from which he or she has been elected or appointed a member of that committee shall constitute his or her automatic resignation from that committee.

A district committee shall remove any member of that committee who is required to be removed under Section 7413.

Whenever any person is appointed to fill a vacancy on a district committee, the district committee shall notify within 10 days the chairperson of the county central committee who shall file a notice of the appointment with the elections official within 30 days after it is made. The notices shall contain the name and address of the person appointed and the name of the person replaced, and shall indicate the date of the appointment.