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California Penal Code Section 642

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Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps
possession of and appropriates for his own use articles of value from
a dead human body, the theft of which articles would be petty theft
is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if the theft of the articles would be
grand theft, a felony.  This section shall not apply to articles
removed at the request or direction of one of the persons enumerated
in section 7111 of the Health and Safety Code.

Last modified: January 12, 2009