If an application is made to the arbitrators for correction of the award, the date of the service of the award for the purposes of this article shall be deemed to be whichever of the following dates is the earlier:
§ 1288.8.Date For Service of Award If Application Made to Arbitrators For Correction
Title 9. Arbitration · Chapter 4. Enforcement of the Award · Article 2. Limitations of Time · Enacted 1961 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 29, 2026
In one sentenceSection 1288.8 fixes the service date used for this article's deadlines, when a correction application was made to the arbitrators, as whichever comes earlier: service of the signed correction or denial, or the date the application is deemed denied under Section 1284.
Full Text of § 1288.8
(a) The date of service upon the petitioner of a signed copy of the correction of the award or of the denial of the application.
Plain-English Summary
Once a correction application delays a petition under Section 1288.6, someone has to say when the clock starts running again. This section supplies that answer for every deadline elsewhere in this article.
Two dates compete, and the earlier one controls. The first is the date the petitioner is served with a signed copy of whatever the arbitrators decided -- either the correction itself or their denial of the application. The second is the date the application counts as denied by default under Section 1284, which deems an unanswered correction request denied if the arbitrators don't act within the period that section allows. Whichever of those two dates arrives first becomes the operative service date for measuring the 100-day and four-year periods in Section 1288.
Frequently Asked Questions
What date starts the clock if a correction application delayed my petition?
Whichever comes first: the date the arbitrators serve a signed copy of their correction or denial, or the date the application is deemed denied under Section 1284.
What if the arbitrators never rule on the correction application?
Section 1284 deems the application denied once its time limit runs out, and that deemed-denial date becomes the operative service date under this section if it falls earlier than any later actual service.
Does this section change the length of the deadlines in Section 1288?
No, it only changes what counts as the starting date for those deadlines when a correction application was involved.
Amendment History
Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 461.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
the Deering's California Codes Annotated / vLex. Enacted by the California Legislature.
Last verified July 29, 2026.
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Also known as: service date after correction application arbitrationdeemed denied arbitration correction deadline