How is California latent construction repose determined?

Substantial completion for the relevant profession or trade and the listed outside commencement events

Subsection (g) uses the earliest applicable final inspection, valid recorded notice of completion, use or occupation, or one year after work termination or cessation.

Responsible actor. The claimant pursuing the identified latent construction or property-injury action. Identify the qualifying participant, trade-specific substantial completion, earliest listed completion event, earlier limitations, exceptions and historical tolling. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.

1. Substantial completion for the relevant profession or trade and the listed outside commencement events
2. Subsection (g) uses the earliest applicable final inspection, valid recorded notice of completion, use or occupation, or one year after work termination or cessation.
3. Resolve the procedural comparisons described here before selecting an applicable clock. This page supplies no computed or paid date.
4. Resolve the legally controlling commencement event and competing limitations before bringing the action. Preserve completion, inspection, recording and occupancy evidence.

CCP 12 excludes the triggering day for ordinary day periods. CCP 12a supplies the final judicial-holiday adjustment, including Saturdays and the CCP 135 holidays. CCP 12b addresses qualifying whole-day office closures. Court-day periods exclude intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and judicial holidays. Calendar-day periods include intermediate closed days. Rule 1.11 supplies Friday observance of a Saturday judicial holiday and Monday observance of a Sunday judicial holiday. The calendar includes Lincoln Day, March 31, Juneteenth, Native American Day and Thanksgiving Friday. It excludes Columbus Day and Good Friday as ordinary full judicial holidays. The observed New Year holiday on December 31, 2027 is confirmed in the county schedule. Actual additional closures require separate evidence.

These base components do not add mail, electronic, fax, express or overnight service time. CCP 1013 and 1010.6 identify eligible additions, service conditions and express exceptions. CCP 1005 supplies its own motion-delivery provisions and excludes CCP 1013 for its identified notices. New-trial and CCP 663a intention-notice filings do not receive the stated mail or electronic additions. Establish the actual service method and governing procedure before applying any addition. A summons-service completion event is not determined by the general document-service addition.

The official sections were reviewed, including the retained 2026 and operative-2027 CCP 473 and 415.20 editions. Publication coverage for day and court-day components begins January 1, 2026, or a later expressly stated section effective date. Year components begin no earlier than January 1, 2021, or the section’s later stated effective date, and assume the current reviewed branch applies. These are software coverage boundaries, not findings that an actual act is late. Displayed final dates are confined to the independently reviewed 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. Closed backward base boundaries and closed minimum-deposition boundaries receive no computed or paid date because their exact adjustment is not implemented. Earlier editions, emergency measures, tolling, different service methods and actual additional closures require separate review.

Assume a valid recorded completion notice predates the asserted substantial-completion date for one trade. The listed-event cap prevents relying on a later general completion date without review.

The preset cannot compare trade-specific completion and the listed earliest events, earlier limitations or the statutory exceptions. No computed or paid final repose date is published.

Earlier limitation remains

Subsection (d) says the construction period does not extend another limitation. A ten-year component alone is not a final claim deadline.

Excluded conduct and possessor

The section excludes willful misconduct or fraudulent concealment and bars its defense by the identified actual possessor or controller.

Multiple completion events

Subsection (g) ties substantial completion to each profession or trade and imposes the stated earliest-event cap.

Service methods and distinct statutory additions

These base components do not add mail, electronic, fax, express or overnight service time. CCP 1013 and 1010.6 identify eligible additions, service conditions and express exceptions. CCP 1005 supplies its own motion-delivery provisions and excludes CCP 1013 for its identified notices. New-trial and CCP 663a intention-notice filings do not receive the stated mail or electronic additions. Establish the actual service method and governing procedure before applying any addition. A summons-service completion event is not determined by the general document-service addition.

Edition and calendar coverage

The official sections were reviewed, including the retained 2026 and operative-2027 CCP 473 and 415.20 editions. Publication coverage for day and court-day components begins January 1, 2026, or a later expressly stated section effective date. Year components begin no earlier than January 1, 2021, or the section’s later stated effective date, and assume the current reviewed branch applies. These are software coverage boundaries, not findings that an actual act is late. Displayed final dates are confined to the independently reviewed 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. Closed backward base boundaries and closed minimum-deposition boundaries receive no computed or paid date because their exact adjustment is not implemented. Earlier editions, emergency measures, tolling, different service methods and actual additional closures require separate review.

• Identify the qualifying participant, trade-specific substantial completion, earliest listed completion event, earlier limitations, exceptions and historical tolling. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review.
• The preset cannot compare trade-specific completion and the listed earliest events, earlier limitations or the statutory exceptions. No computed or paid final repose date is published.

• Substantial completion for the relevant profession or trade and the listed outside commencement events
• Subsection (g) uses the earliest applicable final inspection, valid recorded notice of completion, use or occupation, or one year after work termination or cessation.
• Subsection (d) says the construction period does not extend another limitation. A ten-year component alone is not a final claim deadline.
• The section excludes willful misconduct or fraudulent concealment and bars its defense by the identified actual possessor or controller.
• Subsection (g) ties substantial completion to each profession or trade and imposes the stated earliest-event cap.
• Resolve the legally controlling commencement event and competing limitations before bringing the action. Preserve completion, inspection, recording and occupancy evidence.
• Where filing is required, distinguish accepted filing from service. CCP 1010.6(e)(3) gives the stated same-court-day treatment to qualifying electronic court receipt between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59:59 p.m.; noncourt-day receipt is deemed on the next court day. Its confirmation and rejection provisions still matter. Preserve the accepted filing confirmation, effective service evidence and applicable local requirements. Court-office paper availability and case-specific orders require separate review. This does not turn a service-only response, court determination, completed discovery or trial commencement into a filing-only act.