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California Penal Code Section 653c

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(a) No person required to register as a sex offender pursuant
to Section 290 for an offense committed against an elder or
dependent adult, as defined in Section 368, other than a resident of
the facility, shall enter or remain on the grounds of a day care or
residential facility where elders or dependent adults are regularly
present or living, without having registered with the facility
administrator or his or her designees, except to proceed
expeditiously to the office of the facility administrator or designee
for the purpose of registering.
   (b) In order to register pursuant to subdivision (a), a sex
offender shall advise the facility administrator or designee that he
or she is a sex offender; provide his or her name, address, and
purpose for entering the facility; and provide proof of identity.
   (c) The facility administrator may refuse to register, impose
restrictions on registration, or revoke the registration of a sex
offender if he or she has a reasonable basis for concluding that the
offender's presence or acts would disrupt, or have disrupted, the
facility, any resident, employee, volunteer, or visitor; would
result, or has resulted, in damage to property; the offender's
presence at the facility would interfere, or has interfered, with the
peaceful conduct of the activities of the facility; or would
otherwise place at risk the facility, or any employee, volunteer or
visitor.
   (d)  Punishment for any violation of this section shall be as
follows:
   (1) Upon a first conviction by a fine of not exceeding two
thousand dollars ($2,000), by imprisonment in a county jail for a
period of not more than six months, or by both that fine and
imprisonment.
   (2) If the defendant has been previously convicted once of a
violation of this section, by imprisonment in a county jail for a
period of not less than 10 days or more than six months, or by both
imprisonment and a fine of not exceeding two thousand dollars
($2,000), and shall not be released on probation, parole, or any
other basis until he or she has served at least 10 days.
   (3) If the defendant has been previously convicted two or more
times of a violation of this section, by imprisonment in a county
jail for a period of not less than 90 days or more than six months,
or by both imprisonment and a fine of not exceeding two thousand
dollars ($2,000), and shall not be released on probation, parole, or
any other basis until he or she has served at least 90 days.
   (e) Nothing in this section shall preclude or prohibit prosecution
under any other provision of law.

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