Section 654. Advance notice of petition; effect

Any elector of the county
  may file with the clerk of the board of supervisors  advance  notice  of
  his  intention  to  prepare,  circulate  and  file  a  petition  for the
  submission of any question authorized by this chapter. Any  such  notice
  shall  specify  the  alternative  form  of  county  government proposed,
  together with any variations and shall be accompanied by  a  deposit  of
  twenty-five  dollars.  If  the board of supervisors shall have adopted a
  resolution initiating a proceeding for the adoption  of  an  alternative
  form  of  county government, with or without variations, within ten days
  after the filing of such an advance notice, then and in that event  such
  advance   notice  shall  have  no  further  force  and  effect  and  the
  twenty-five dollars deposited shall be refunded to the person making the
  deposit. In the event that no such resolution is adopted by the board of
  supervisors within such period of ten days after the filing of  such  an
  advance  notice,  then  and  in that event if one-third of the number of
  signatures required for the submission of the question  are  filed  with
  such  clerk within twenty days and the remaining two-thirds within forty
  days after the filing of the notice, the twenty-five  dollars  shall  be
  refunded  to  the  person  making  the  deposit and no other petition or
  advance notice shall be filed or accepted for filing, or  resolution  of
  the  board  of  supervisors  adopted, for the submission of any question
  under this chapter, until the question proposed in  the  advance  notice
  shall  have  been  submitted to the electors of the county in accordance
  with the provisions of this chapter. The several parts of  the  petition
  filed  with  the  clerk  of the board of supervisors under this section,
  when complete, shall constitute one petition, which shall be  deemed  to
  be  filed  for the purposes of this chapter on the date the last portion
  is filed. If the required number of signatures is not filed  within  the
  twenty  day  period,  or  the  forty day period aforesaid, the notice of
  intention to file a petition shall be deemed withdrawn and shall have no
  further force or effect and the deposit of twenty-five dollars shall  be
  paid into the general fund of the county treasury.