{"data":{"id":"us-ca/elec-10731","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"ELEC § 10731","heading":"","body":"For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:\n(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.\n(b) “Vacancy” means the death or disappearance, as a result of a catastrophe, of a Representative in Congress.\n(c) “Disappearance” means the inability to establish conclusively whether a Representative in Congress has survived a catastrophe.","path":["Elections Code - ELEC","DIVISION 10. LOCAL, SPECIAL, VACANCY, AND CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS [10000. - 10735.]","PART 6. ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCIES [10700. - 10735.]","CHAPTER 3. Vacancies in Congressional Offices caused by Catastrophe [10730. - 10735.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"5ff83f98f7e0c7a033c2320dc36a2a4417230df034c9ce1d5f66d9390200cb87","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/elec-10730","next":"us-ca/elec-10732"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}