Section 9033.

When the Secretary of State has received from one or more elections officials or registrars a petition, certified as herein provided to have been signed by the requisite number of qualified voters, the Secretary of State shall forthwith notify the proponents and immediately transmit to the elections official or registrar of voters of every county or city and county in the state, a certificate showing this fact so that signature verification can be terminated. A petition shall be deemed to be filed with the Secretary of State upon the date of the receipt by the Secretary of State of a certificate or certificates showing the petition to be signed by the requisite number of voters of the state. Any elections official shall, upon receipt of the copy, file the notification for record in that office.

(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)