§ 11040 Petition Section Requirements

• •Petitions can be split into many sections that are copies of each other, except for the signatures.
• •The person gathering signatures decides how many signatures go on each section.
• •A page is counted as each side of a sheet of paper that has signatures on it.

A parent wants to gather signatures for a school rule change and prints three copies of the petition. One copy gets 20 signatures, another gets 35, and the third gets 50. Each sheet of paper that has signatures on either side is counted as a page.

Because the law lets each copy be a duplicate except for the signatures, the parent can have different numbers of signatures on each copy, and every side of the paper with a signature is considered a page.