§ 20740 Petition Publication Requirements

• •If you want to present a petition, you must tell people about it in the newspaper first.
• •The notice must be in the newspaper for at least two weeks before the meeting.
• •The notice must be in newspapers in the main county and any other counties that are affected.
• •The person in charge of elections in the main county must sign the notice.

A group of people want to change a rule in their town, so they make a petition.

Before they can talk about it at a meeting, they have to put a notice in the local newspapers for two weeks. The notice must also be in newspapers in nearby towns that might be affected by the rule change. The person who runs elections in the main town must sign the notice.