§4920

Notice of Board Meetings

Chapter 6 · Association Governance · Board Meeting

Text current as of 2026-07-07 · Last amended by SB 745, eff. 2014-01-01

The code says CIV §4920

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the association shall give notice of the time and place of a board meeting at least four days before the meeting.

(b) (1) If a board meeting is an emergency meeting held pursuant to Section 4923, the association is not required to give notice of the time and place of the

meeting.

(2) If a nonemergency board meeting is held solely in executive session, the association shall give notice of the time and place of the meeting at least two days prior to the meeting.

(3) If the association’s governing documents require a longer period of notice than is required by this section, the association shall comply with the period stated in its governing documents. For the purposes of this paragraph, a governing document provision does not apply to a notice of an emergency meeting or a meeting held solely in executive session unless it specifically states that it applies to those types of meetings.

(d) Notice of a board meeting shall contain the

agenda for the meeting.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 183, Sec. 17. (SB 745) Effective January 1, 2014.)

In plain English

Editorial summary — not the statute’s text.

Board meetings need four days’ notice with the agenda included, delivered by general notice. Executive-session-only meetings need two days; emergency meetings need none. Longer periods in your governing documents still bind you.

What this means for you

Editorial summary — not the statute’s text.

The agenda travels with the notice — no notice is complete without it.
Two-day notice covers meetings held solely in executive session.
If your bylaws demand more than four days, the bylaws win.

How courts have read this

Editorial summaries — not the court’s words.

Cites (2)

§4045 §4923

Cited by (3)

§4923 §4930 §5515

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