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• California Penal Code Section 1
  This Act shall be known as THE PENAL CODE OF CALIFORNIA, and is divided into four parts, as follows: I.--OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. II.--OF CRIMINAL...
• California Penal Code Section 2
  This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock, noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
• California Penal Code Section 3
  No part of it is retroactive, unless expressly so declared.
• California Penal Code Section 4
  The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code. All its provisions are to...
• California Penal Code Section 5
  The provisions of this Code, so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutes, must be construed as continuations thereof, and not as...
• California Penal Code Section 6
  No act or omission, commenced after twelve o'clock noon of the day on which this Code takes effect as a law, is criminal or punishable,...
• California Penal Code Section 7
  Words used in this code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the...
• California Penal Code Section 7.5
  Whenever any offense is described in this code, the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Health and Safety Code),...
• California Penal Code Section 8
  Whenever, by any of the provisions of this Code, an intent to defraud is required in order to constitute any offense, it is sufficient if...
• California Penal Code Section 9
  The omission to specify or affirm in this Code any liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy imposed by law and allowed to be...
• California Penal Code Section 10
  The omission to specify or affirm in this Code any ground of forfeiture of a public office, or other trust or special authority conferred by...
• California Penal Code Section 11
  This code does not affect any power conferred by law upon any court-martial, or other military authority or officer, to impose or inflict punishment upon...
• California Penal Code Section 12
  The several sections of this Code which declare certain crimes to be punishable as therein mentioned, devolve a duty upon the Court authorized to pass...
• California Penal Code Section 13
  Whenever in this Code the punishment for a crime is left undetermined between certain limits, the punishment to be inflicted in a particular case must...
• California Penal Code Section 14
  The various sections of this Code which declare that evidence obtained upon the examination of a person as a witness cannot be received against him...
• California Penal Code Section 15
  A crime or public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it, and to which is annexed,...
• California Penal Code Section 16
  Crimes and public offenses include: 1. Felonies; 2. Misdemeanors; and 3. Infractions.
• California Penal Code Section 17
  (a) A felony is a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Every other crime or public offense is...
• California Penal Code Section 18
  Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by any law of this state, every offense declared to be a felony, or to be...
• California Penal Code Section 19
  Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by any law of this state, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by...
• California Penal Code Section 19.2
  In no case shall any person sentenced to confinement in a county or city jail, or in a county or joint county penal farm, road...
• California Penal Code Section 19.4
  When an act or omission is declared by a statute to be a public offense and no penalty for the offense is prescribed in any...
• California Penal Code Section 19.6
  An infraction is not punishable by imprisonment. A person charged with an infraction shall not be entitled to a trial by jury. A person charged...
• California Penal Code Section 19.7
  Except as otherwise provided by law, all provisions of law relating to misdemeanors shall apply to infractions including, but not limited to, powers of peace...
• California Penal Code Section 19.8
  The following offenses are subject to subdivision (d) of Section 17: Sections 193.8, 330, 415, 485, 490.7, 555, 652, and 853.7 of this code; subdivision...
• California Penal Code Section 20
  In every crime or public offense there must exist a union, or joint operation of act and intent, or criminal negligence.
• California Penal Code Section 21
  (a) The intent or intention is manifested by the circumstances connected with the offense. (b) In the guilt phase of a criminal action or a...
• California Penal Code Section 21a
  An attempt to commit a crime consists of two elements: a specific intent to commit the crime, and a direct but ineffectual act done toward...
• California Penal Code Section 22
  (a) No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his or her having been...
• California Penal Code Section 23
  In any criminal proceeding against a person who has been issued a license to engage in a business or profession by a state agency pursuant...
• California Penal Code Section 24
  This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended, may be designated simply as THE PENAL CODE, adding, when necessary, the number of the section.
• California Penal Code Section 25
  (a) The defense of diminished capacity is hereby abolished. In a criminal action, as well as any juvenile court proceeding, evidence concerning an accused person's...
• California Penal Code Section 25.5
  In any criminal proceeding in which a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is entered, this defense shall not be found by the...
• California Penal Code Section 26
  All persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to the following classes: One--Children under the age of 14, in the absence of clear...
• California Penal Code Section 27
  (a) The following persons are liable to punishment under the laws of this state: (1) All persons who commit, in whole or in part, any...
• California Penal Code Section 28
  (a) Evidence of mental disease, mental defect, or mental disorder shall not be admitted to show or negate the capacity to form any mental state,...
• California Penal Code Section 29
  In the guilt phase of a criminal action, any expert testifying about a defendant's mental illness, mental disorder, or mental defect shall not testify as...
• California Penal Code Section 30
  The parties to crimes are classified as: 1. Principals; and, 2. Accessories.
• California Penal Code Section 31
  All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it be felony or misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense,...
• California Penal Code Section 32
  Every person who, after a felony has been committed, harbors, conceals or aids a principal in such felony, with the intent that said principal may...
• California Penal Code Section 33
  Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed, an accessory is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment...
• California Penal Code Section 37
  (a) Treason against this state consists only in levying war against it, adhering to its enemies, or giving them aid and comfort, and can be...
• California Penal Code Section 38
  Misprision of treason is the knowledge and concealment of treason, without otherwise assenting to or participating in the crime. It is punishable by imprisonment in...
• California Penal Code Section 67
  Every person who gives or offers any bribe to any executive officer in this state, with intent to influence him in respect to any act,...
• California Penal Code Section 67.5
  (a) Every person who gives or offers as a bribe to any ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, county or city...
• California Penal Code Section 68
  (a) Every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, a county or city therein, or a political subdivision thereof, who...
• California Penal Code Section 69
  Every person who attempts, by means of any threat or violence, to deter or prevent an executive officer from performing any duty imposed upon such...
• California Penal Code Section 70
  (a) Every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, or any county or city therein, or any political subdivision thereof,...
• California Penal Code Section 70.5
  Every commissioner of civil marriages or every deputy commissioner of civil marriages who accepts any money or other thing of value for performing any marriage...
• California Penal Code Section 71
  Every person who, with intent to cause, attempts to cause, or causes, any officer or employee of any public or private educational institution or any...
• California Penal Code Section 72
  Every person who, with intent to defraud, presents for allowance or for payment to any state board or officer, or to any county, city, or...
• California Penal Code Section 72.5
  (a) Every person who, knowing a claim seeks public funds for reimbursement of costs incurred in attending a political function organized to support or oppose...
• California Penal Code Section 73
  Every person who gives or offers any gratuity or reward, in consideration that he or any other person shall be appointed to any public office,...
• California Penal Code Section 74
  Every public officer who, for any gratuity or reward, appoints another person to a public office, or permits another person to exercise or discharge any...
• California Penal Code Section 76
  (a) Every person who knowingly and willingly threatens the life of, or threatens serious bodily harm to, any elected public official, county public defender, county...
• California Penal Code Section 77
  The various provisions of this title, except Section 76, apply to administrative and ministerial officers, in the same manner as if they were mentioned therein.
• California Penal Code Section 85
  Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any Member of the Legislature, any member of the legislative body of a city,...
• California Penal Code Section 86
  Every Member of either house of the Legislature, or any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or...
• California Penal Code Section 88
  Every Member of the Legislature, and every member of a legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district...
• California Penal Code Section 92
  Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, or to any person who may...
• California Penal Code Section 93
  (a) Every judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, and every person authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, who asks,...
• California Penal Code Section 94
  Every judicial officer who asks or receives any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any promise thereof, except such as may be authorized by law, for...
• California Penal Code Section 94.5
  Every judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of this state who accepts any money or other thing of value for performing any...
• California Penal Code Section 95
  Every person who corruptly attempts to influence a juror, or any person summoned or drawn as a juror, or chosen as an arbitrator or umpire,...
• California Penal Code Section 95.1
  Every person who threatens a juror with respect to a criminal proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who has the intent and...
• California Penal Code Section 95.2
  Any person who, with knowledge of the relationship of the parties and without court authorization and juror consent, intentionally provides a defendant or former defendant...
• California Penal Code Section 95.3
  Any person licensed pursuant to Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 7512) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code who, with knowledge of the...
• California Penal Code Section 96
  Every juror, or person drawn or summoned as a juror, or chosen arbitrator or umpire, or appointed referee, who either: One--Makes any promise or agreement...
• California Penal Code Section 96.5
  (a) Every judicial officer, court commissioner, or referee who commits any act that he or she knows perverts or obstructs justice, is guilty of a...
• California Penal Code Section 98
  Every officer convicted of any crime defined in this Chapter, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding...
• California Penal Code Section 99
  The Superintendent of State Printing shall not, during his continuance in office, have any interest, either directly or indirectly, in any contract in any way...
• California Penal Code Section 100
  If the Superintendent of State Printing corruptly colludes with any person or persons furnishing paper or materials, or bidding therefor, or with any other person...
• California Penal Code Section 102
  Every person who willfully injures or destroys, or takes or attempts to take, or assists any person in taking or attempting to take, from the...
• California Penal Code Section 107
  Every prisoner charged with or convicted of a felony who is an inmate of any public training school or reformatory or county hospital who escapes...
• California Penal Code Section 109
  Any person who willfully assists any inmate of any public training school or reformatory to escape, or in an attempt to escape from such public...
• California Penal Code Section 110
  Every person who carries or sends into a public training school, or reformatory, anything useful to aid a prisoner or inmate in making his escape,...
• California Penal Code Section 112
  (a) Any person who manufactures or sells any false government document with the intent to conceal the true citizenship or resident alien status of another...
• California Penal Code Section 113
  Any person who manufactures, distributes or sells false documents to conceal the true citizenship or resident alien status of another person is guilty of a...
• California Penal Code Section 114
  Any person who uses false documents to conceal his or her true citizenship or resident alien status is guilty of a felony, and shall be...
• California Penal Code Section 115
  (a) Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this...
• California Penal Code Section 115.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the voters of California are entitled to accurate representations in materials that are directed to them in efforts...
• California Penal Code Section 115.2
  (a) No person shall publish or cause to be published, with actual knowledge, and intent to deceive, any campaign advertisement containing false or fraudulent depictions,...
• California Penal Code Section 115.25
  (a) No person or entity shall authorize the production or distribution, or participate in the authorization of the production or distribution, of any document, including,...
• California Penal Code Section 115.3
  Any person who alters a certified copy of an official record, or knowingly furnishes an altered certified copy of an official record, of this state,...
• California Penal Code Section 115.5
  (a) Every person who files any false or forged document or instrument with the county recorder which affects title to, places an encumbrance on, or...
• California Penal Code Section 116
  Every person who adds any names to the list of persons selected to serve as jurors for the county, either by placing the names in...
• California Penal Code Section 116.5
  (a) A person is guilty of tampering with a jury when, prior to, or within 90 days of, discharge of the jury in a criminal...
• California Penal Code Section 117
  Every officer or person required by law to certify to the list of persons selected as jurors who maliciously, corruptly, or willfully certifies to a...
• California Penal Code Section 118
  (a) Every person who, having taken an oath that he or she will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly before any competent tribunal, officer, or...
• California Penal Code Section 118.1
  Every peace officer who files any report with the agency which employs him or her regarding the commission of any crime or any investigation of...
• California Penal Code Section 118a
  Any person who, in any affidavit taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, swears, affirms, declares, deposes, or certifies that he will testify, declare,...
• California Penal Code Section 119
  The term "oath," as used in the last two sections, includes an affirmation and every other mode authorized by law of attesting the truth of...
• California Penal Code Section 120
  So much of an oath of office as relates to the future performance of official duties is not such an oath as is intended by...
• California Penal Code Section 121
  It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the oath was administered or taken in an irregular manner, or that the person accused...
• California Penal Code Section 122
  It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused was not competent to give the testimony, deposition, or certificate of which falsehood...
• California Penal Code Section 123
  It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused did not know the materiality of the false statement made by him; or...
• California Penal Code Section 124
  The making of a deposition, affidavit or certificate is deemed to be complete, within the provisions of this chapter, from the time when it is...
• California Penal Code Section 125
  An unqualified statement of that which one does not know to be true is equivalent to a statement of that which one knows to be
• California Penal Code Section 126
  Perjury is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.
• California Penal Code Section 127
  Every person who willfully procures another person to commit perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and is punishable in the same manner as he...
• California Penal Code Section 128
  Every person who, by willful perjury or subornation of perjury procures the conviction and execution of any innocent person, is punishable by death or life...
• California Penal Code Section 129
  Every person who, being required by law to make any return, statement, or report, under oath, willfully makes and delivers any such return, statement, or...
• California Penal Code Section 131
  Every person in any matter under investigation for a violation of the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Part 1 (commencing with Section 25000) of Division...
• California Penal Code Section 132
  Every person who upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation whatever, authorized or permitted by law, offers in evidence, as genuine or true, any book,...
• California Penal Code Section 132.5
  (a) A person who is a witness to an event or occurrence that he or she knows, or reasonably should know, is a crime or...
• California Penal Code Section 132.5
  (a) The Legislature supports and affirms the constitutional right of every person to communicate on any subject. This section is intended to preserve the right...
• California Penal Code Section 133
  Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token, or writing, to any witness or person...
• California Penal Code Section 134
  Every person guilty of preparing any false or ante-dated book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it,...
• California Penal Code Section 135
  Every person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon...
• California Penal Code Section 135.5
  Any person who knowingly alters, tampers with, conceals, or destroys relevant evidence in any disciplinary proceeding against a public safety officer, for the purpose of...
• California Penal Code Section 136
  As used in this chapter: (1) "Malice" means an intent to vex, annoy, harm, or injure in any way another person, or to thwart or...
• California Penal Code Section 136.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who does any of the following is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished...
• California Penal Code Section 136.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has...
• California Penal Code Section 136.3
  (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 136.2 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain the address or location...
• California Penal Code Section 136.5
  Any person who has upon his person a deadly weapon with the intent to use such weapon to commit a violation of Section 136.1 is...
• California Penal Code Section 136.7
  Every person imprisoned in a county jail or the state prison who has been convicted of a sexual offense, including, but not limited to, a...
• California Penal Code Section 137
  (a) Every person who gives or offers, or promises to give, to any witness, person about to be called as a witness, or person about...
• California Penal Code Section 138
  (a) Every person who gives or offers or promises to give to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, any bribe...
• California Penal Code Section 139
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 71 and 136.1, any person who has been convicted of any felony offense specified in Section 12021.1 who willfully...
• California Penal Code Section 140
  (a) Except as provided in Section 139, every person who willfully uses force or threatens to use force or violence upon the person of a...
• California Penal Code Section 141
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who knowingly, willfully, and intentionally alters, modifies, plants, places, manufactures, conceals, or moves any physical matter,...
• California Penal Code Section 142
  (a) Any peace officer who has the authority to receive or arrest a person charged with a criminal offense and willfully refuses to receive or...
• California Penal Code Section 145
  Every public officer or other person, having arrested any person upon a criminal charge, who willfully delays to take such person before a magistrate having...
• California Penal Code Section 146
  Every public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, does...
• California Penal Code Section 146a
  (a) Any person who falsely represents himself or herself to be a deputy or clerk in any state department and who, in that assumed character,...
• California Penal Code Section 146b
  Every person who, with intent to lead another to believe that a request or demand for information is being made by the State, a county,...
• California Penal Code Section 146c
  Every person who designates any nongovernmental organization by any name, including, but not limited to any name that incorporates the term "peace officer," "police," or...
• California Penal Code Section 146d
  Every person who sells or gives to another a membership card, badge, or other device, where it can be reasonably inferred by the recipient that...
• California Penal Code Section 146e
  (a) Every person who maliciously, and with the intent to obstruct justice or the due administration of the laws, or with the intent or threat...
• California Penal Code Section 146f
  No inmate under the control or supervision of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority shall be permitted to work with...
• California Penal Code Section 146g
  (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, any employee of a law enforcement...
• California Penal Code Section 147
  Every officer who is guilty of willful inhumanity or oppression toward any prisoner under his care or in his custody, is punishable by fine not...
• California Penal Code Section 148
  (a) (1) Every person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5...
• California Penal Code Section 148.1
  (a) Any person who reports to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, employee of a fire...
• California Penal Code Section 148.2
  Every person who willfully commits any of the following acts at the burning of a building or at any other time and place where any...
• California Penal Code Section 148.3
  (a) Any individual who reports, or causes any report to be made, to any city, county, city and county, or state department, district, agency, division,...
• California Penal Code Section 148.4
  (a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail,...
• California Penal Code Section 148.5
  (a) Every person who reports to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, the Attorney General, or...
• California Penal Code Section 148.6
  (a) (1) Every person who files any allegation of misconduct against any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title...
• California Penal Code Section 148.7
  Every person who, for the purpose of serving in any county or city jail, industrial farm or road camp, or other local correctional institution any...
• California Penal Code Section 148.9
  (a) Any person who falsely represents or identifies himself or herself as another person or as a fictitious person to any peace officer listed in...
• California Penal Code Section 148.10
  (a) Every person who willfully resists a peace officer in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment...
• California Penal Code Section 149
  Every public officer who, under color of authority, without lawful necessity, assaults or beats any person, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand...
• California Penal Code Section 150
  Every able-bodied person above 18 years of age who neglects or refuses to join the posse comitatus or power of the county, by neglecting or...
• California Penal Code Section 151
  (a) Any person who advocates the willful and unlawful killing or injuring of a peace officer, with the specific intent to cause the willful and...
• California Penal Code Section 152
  (a) Every person who, having knowledge of an accidental death, actively conceals or attempts to conceal that death, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable...
• California Penal Code Section 152.3
  (a) Any person who reasonably believes that he or she has observed the commission of any of the following offenses where the victim is a...
• California Penal Code Section 153
  Every person who, having knowledge of the actual commission of a crime, takes money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any...
• California Penal Code Section 154
  (a) Every debtor who fraudulently removes his or her property or effects out of this state, or who fraudulently sells, conveys, assigns or conceals his...
• California Penal Code Section 155
  (a) Every person against whom an action is pending, or against whom a judgment has been rendered for the recovery of any personal property, who...
• California Penal Code Section 155.5
  (a) Any defendant who is ordered to pay any fine or restitution in connection with the commission of a misdemeanor and who, after the plea...
• California Penal Code Section 156
  Every person who fraudulently produces an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of any parent whose child would be entitled to inherit any...
• California Penal Code Section 157
  Every person to whom an infant has been confided for nursing, education, or any other purpose, who, with intent to deceive any parent or guardian...
• California Penal Code Section 158
  Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by...
• California Penal Code Section 159
  No person can be convicted of common barratry except upon proof that he has excited suits or proceedings at law in at least three instances,...
• California Penal Code Section 160
  (a) No bail licensee may employ, engage, solicit, pay, or promise any payment, compensation, consideration or thing of value to any person incarcerated in any...
• California Penal Code Section 165
  Every person who gives or offers a bribe to any member of any common council, board of supervisors, or board of trustees of any county,...
• California Penal Code Section 166
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), every person guilty of any contempt of court, of any of the following kinds, is...
• California Penal Code Section 166.5
  (a) After arrest and before plea or trial or after conviction or plea of guilty and before sentence under paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Penal Code Section 166.5
  (a) After arrest and before plea or trial or after conviction or plea of guilty and before sentence under paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Penal Code Section 167
  Every person who, by any means whatsoever, willfully and knowingly, and without knowledge and consent of the jury, records, or attempts to record, all or...
• California Penal Code Section 168
  (a) Every district attorney, clerk, judge, or peace officer who, except by issuing or in executing a search warrant or warrant of arrest for a...
• California Penal Code Section 169
  Any person who pickets or parades in or near a building which houses a court of this state with the intent to interfere with, obstruct,...
• California Penal Code Section 170
  Every person who maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant or warrant of arrest to be issued and executed, is guilty of a
• California Penal Code Section 171
  Every person, not authorized by law, who, without the permission of the officer in charge of any reformatory in this State, communicates with any person...
• California Penal Code Section 171b
  (a) Any person who brings or possesses within any state or local public building or at any meeting required to be open to the public...
• California Penal Code Section 171c
  Any person, except a duly appointed peace officer as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, a full-time...
• California Penal Code Section 171d
  Any person, except a duly appointed peace officer as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, a full-time...
• California Penal Code Section 171e
  A firearm shall be deemed loaded for the purposes of Sections 171c and 171d whenever both the firearm and unexpended ammunition capable of being discharged...
• California Penal Code Section 171f
  No person or group of persons shall willfully and knowingly: 1. Enter or remain within or upon any part of the chamber of either house...
• California Penal Code Section 171.5
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Airport" means an airport, with a secured area, that regularly serves an air carrier holding a certificate issued...
• California Penal Code Section 172
  (a) Every person who, within one-half mile of the land belonging to this state upon which any state prison, or within 1,900 feet of the...
• California Penal Code Section 172a
  Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the university grounds or campus, upon which are located the principal administrative offices of any university...
• California Penal Code Section 1
  Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the boundaries of the grounds belonging to the University of California at Los Angeles on which...
• California Penal Code Section 172c
  Section 172a shall not apply to the sale at auction of alcoholic beverages by a nonprofit organization at the California Science Center premises located at...
• California Penal Code Section 1
  Every person who, within one mile of that portion of the grounds at Riverside (hereinafter described) belonging to the University of California, that will be...
• California Penal Code Section 172e
  The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g of this code shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for...
• California Penal Code Section 172f
  The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g of this code shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for...
• California Penal Code Section 1
  Every person who, within one mile by air line from the intersection of Sierra Vista, Pierce, and Campus Drive streets at the entrance to La...
• California Penal Code Section 172h
  The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d and 172g of this code shall not be applied to prohibit the sale or the exposing or...
• California Penal Code Section 172j
  The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g shall not apply to the sale or exposing for sale of any intoxicating liquor on...
• California Penal Code Section 172l
  The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or offering for sale of any intoxicating liquor on the premises of, and by...
• California Penal Code Section 172m
  The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages at premises licensed under...
• California Penal Code Section 172n
  The provisions of Sections 172a and 172b shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by any off-sale...
• California Penal Code Section 172o
  The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g shall not apply to the sale of wine for consumption off the premises where sold...
• California Penal Code Section 172p
  The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of beer or wine by any on-sale licensee...
• California Penal Code Section 172.1
  No provision of law shall prevent the possession or use of wine on any state university, state college or community college premises solely for use...
• California Penal Code Section 172.3
  The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of any alcoholic beverages on the premises of,...
• California Penal Code Section 172.5
  The provisions of Sections 172 and 172a of this code shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages...
• California Penal Code Section 172.6
  The provisions of Section 172 of this code shall not apply to the sale, gift, or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by...
• California Penal Code Section 172.7
  The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale, gift, or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by a licensee under...
• California Penal Code Section 172.8
  The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, by a nonprofit organization at a...
• California Penal Code Section 172.9
  The word "university," when used in this chapter with reference to the sale, exposing or offering for sale, of alcoholic beverages, means an institution which...
• California Penal Code Section 172.95
  Sections 172 to 172.9, inclusive, do not apply to sales to wholesalers or retailers by licensed winegrowers, brandy manufacturers, beer manufacturers, distilled spirits manufacturers' agents,...
• California Penal Code Section 173
  Every Captain, Master of a vessel, or other person, who willfully imports, brings, or sends, or causes or procures to be brought or sent, into...
• California Penal Code Section 175
  Every individual person of the classes referred to in Section 173, brought to or landed within this state contrary to the provisions of such section,...
• California Penal Code Section 181
  Every person who holds, or attempts to hold, any person in involuntary servitude, or assumes, or attempts to assume, rights of ownership over any person,...
• California Penal Code Section 182
  (a) If two or more persons conspire: (1) To commit any crime. (2) Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any crime, or to procure...
• California Penal Code Section 182.5
  Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) or (b) of Section 182, any person who actively participates in any criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section...
• California Penal Code Section 183
  No conspiracies, other than those enumerated in the preceding section, are punishable criminally.
• California Penal Code Section 184
  No agreement amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act, beside such agreement, be done within this state to effect the object thereof, by one or...
• California Penal Code Section 186
  This act may be cited as the "California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act."
• California Penal Code Section 186.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that an effective means of punishing and deterring criminal activities of organized crime is through the forfeiture of profits...
• California Penal Code Section 186.2
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Criminal profiteering activity" means any act committed or attempted or any threat made for financial...
• California Penal Code Section 186.3
  (a) In any case in which a person is alleged to have been engaged in a pattern of criminal profiteering activity, upon a conviction of...
• California Penal Code Section 186.4
  (a) The prosecuting agency shall, in conjunction with the criminal proceeding, file a petition of forfeiture with the superior court of the county in which...
• California Penal Code Section 186.5
  (a) Any person claiming an interest in the property or proceeds may, at any time within 30 days from the date of the first publication...
• California Penal Code Section 186.6
  (a) Concurrent with, or subsequent to, the filing of the petition, the prosecuting agency may move the superior court for the following pendente lite orders...
• California Penal Code Section 186.7
  (a) If the trier of fact at the forfeiture hearing finds that the alleged property or proceeds is forfeitable pursuant to Section 186.3 and the...
• California Penal Code Section 186.8
  Notwithstanding that no response or claim has been filed pursuant to Section 186.5, in all cases where property is forfeited pursuant to this chapter and,...
• California Penal Code Section 186.9
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Conducts" includes, but is not limited to, initiating, concluding, or participating in conducting, initiating, or concluding a transaction. (b)...
• California Penal Code Section 186.10
  (a) Any person who conducts or attempts to conduct a transaction or more than one transaction within a seven-day period involving a monetary instrument or...
• California Penal Code Section 186.11
  (a) (1) Any person who commits two or more related felonies, a material element of which is fraud or embezzlement, which involve a pattern of...
• California Penal Code Section 186.20
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act."
• California Penal Code Section 186.21
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is the right of every person, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual...
• California Penal Code Section 186.22
  (a) Any person who actively participates in any criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage in or have engaged in a pattern of...
• California Penal Code Section 186.22a
  (a) Every building or place used by members of a criminal street gang for the purpose of the commission of the offenses listed in subdivision...
• California Penal Code Section 186.23
  This chapter does not apply to employees engaged in concerted activities for their mutual aid and protection, or the activities of labor organizations or their...
• California Penal Code Section 186.24
  If any part or provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter,...
• California Penal Code Section 186.25
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws consistent with this chapter relating to gangs and gang violence....
• California Penal Code Section 186.26
  (a) Any person who solicits or recruits another to actively participate in a criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 186.22, with...
• California Penal Code Section 186.28
  (a) Any person, corporation, or firm who shall knowingly supply, sell, or give possession or control of any firearm to another shall be punished by...
• California Penal Code Section 186.30
  (a) Any person described in subdivision (b) shall register with the chief of police of the city in which he or she resides, or the...
• California Penal Code Section 186.31
  At the time of sentencing in adult court, or at the time of the dispositional hearing in the juvenile court, the court shall inform any...
• California Penal Code Section 186.32
  (a) The registration required by Section 186.30 shall consist of the following: (1) Juvenile registration shall include the following: (A) The juvenile shall appear at...
• California Penal Code Section 186.33
  (a) Any person required to register pursuant to Section 186.30 who knowingly violates any of its provisions is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) (1) Any...
• California Penal Code Section 187
  (a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. (b) This section shall not apply to any person...
• California Penal Code Section 188
  Such malice may be express or implied. It is express when there is manifested a deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a...
• California Penal Code Section 189
  All murder which is perpetrated by means of a destructive device or explosive, a weapon of mass destruction, knowing use of ammunition designed primarily to...
• California Penal Code Section 189.5
  (a) Upon a trial for murder, the commission of the homicide by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that...
• California Penal Code Section 190
  (a) Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death, imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility...
• California Penal Code Section 190.03
  (a) A person who commits first-degree murder that is a hate crime shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life without the...
• California Penal Code Section 190.05
  (a) The penalty for a defendant found guilty of murder in the second degree, who has served a prior prison term for murder in the...
• California Penal Code Section 190.1
  A case in which the death penalty may be imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be tried in separate phases as follows: (a) The question...
• California Penal Code Section 190.2
  (a) The penalty for a defendant who is found guilty of murder in the first degree is death or imprisonment in the state prison for...
• California Penal Code Section 190.25
  (a) The penalty for a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree shall be confinement in state prison for a term of life...
• California Penal Code Section 190.3
  If the defendant has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, and a special circumstance has been charged and found to be true,...
• California Penal Code Section 190.4
  (a) Whenever special circumstances as enumerated in Section 190.2 are alleged and the trier of fact finds the defendant guilty of first degree murder, the...
• California Penal Code Section 190.41
  Notwithstanding Section 190.4 or any other provision of law, the corpus delicti of a felony-based special circumstance enumerated in paragraph (17) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Penal Code Section 190.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the death penalty shall not be imposed upon any person who is under the age of 18 at...
• California Penal Code Section 190.6
  (a) The Legislature finds that the sentence in all capital cases should be imposed expeditiously. (b) Therefore, in all cases in which a sentence of...
• California Penal Code Section 190.7
  (a) The "entire record" referred to in Section 190.6 includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1) The normal and additional record prescribed in...
• California Penal Code Section 190.8
  (a) In any case in which a death sentence has been imposed, the record on appeal shall be expeditiously certified in two stages, the first...
• California Penal Code Section 190.9
  (a) (1) In any case in which a death sentence may be imposed, all proceedings conducted in the superior court, including all conferences and proceedings,...
• California Penal Code Section 191
  The rules of the common law, distinguishing the killing of a master by his servant, and of a husband by his wife, as petit treason,...
• California Penal Code Section 191.5
  (a) Gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought, in the driving of a vehicle, where the...
• California Penal Code Section 192
  Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of three kinds: (a) Voluntary--upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion....
• California Penal Code Section 192.5
  Vehicular manslaughter pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 191.5 and subdivision (c) of Section 192 is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice...
• California Penal Code Section 193
  (a) Voluntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 6, or 11 years. (b) Involuntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in...
• California Penal Code Section 193.5
  Manslaughter committed during the operation of a vessel is punishable as follows: (a) A violation of subdivision (a) of Section 192.5 is punishable by imprisonment...
• California Penal Code Section 193.7
  A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 191.5 that occurred within seven years of two or more separate violations of Section...
• California Penal Code Section 193.8
  (a) An adult, who is the registered owner of a motor vehicle or in possession of a motor vehicle, shall not relinquish possession of the...
• California Penal Code Section 194
  To make the killing either murder or manslaughter, it is not requisite that the party die within three years and a day after the stroke...
• California Penal Code Section 195
  Homicide is excusable in the following cases: 1. When committed by accident and misfortune, or in doing any other lawful act by lawful means, with...
• California Penal Code Section 196
  Homicide is justifiable when committed by public officers and those acting by their command in their aid and assistance, either-- 1. In obedience to any...
• California Penal Code Section 197
  Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in any of the following cases: 1. When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or...
• California Penal Code Section 198
  A bare fear of the commission of any of the offenses mentioned in subdivisions 2 and 3 of Section 197, to prevent which homicide may...
• California Penal Code Section 198.5
  Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily injury within his or her residence shall be presumed to have held...
• California Penal Code Section 199
  The homicide appearing to be justifiable or excusable, the person indicted must, upon his trial, be fully acquitted and discharged.
• California Penal Code Section 203
  Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts...
• California Penal Code Section 204
  Mayhem is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, four, or eight years.
• California Penal Code Section 205
  A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of another...
• California Penal Code Section 206
  Every person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or for any sadistic...
• California Penal Code Section 206.1
  Torture is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of life.
• California Penal Code Section 207
  (a) Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this...
• California Penal Code Section 208
  (a) Kidnapping is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, five, or eight years. (b) If the person kidnapped is under 14 years...
• California Penal Code Section 209
  (a) Any person who seizes, confines, inveigles, entices, decoys, abducts, conceals, kidnaps or carries away another person by any means whatsoever with intent to hold...
• California Penal Code Section 209.5
  (a) Any person who, during the commission of a carjacking and in order to facilitate the commission of the carjacking, kidnaps another person who is...
• California Penal Code Section 210
  Every person who for the purpose of obtaining any ransom or reward, or to extort or exact from any person any money or thing of...
• California Penal Code Section 210.5
  Every person who commits the offense of false imprisonment, as defined in Section 236, against a person for purposes of protection from arrest, which substantially...
• California Penal Code Section 211
  Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by...
• California Penal Code Section 212
  The fear mentioned in Section 211 may be either: 1. The fear of an unlawful injury to the person or property of the person robbed,...
• California Penal Code Section 212.5
  (a) Every robbery of any person who is performing his or her duties as an operator of any bus, taxicab, cable car, streetcar, trackless trolley,...
• California Penal Code Section 213
  (a) Robbery is punishable as follows: (1) Robbery of the first degree is punishable as follows: (A) If the defendant, voluntarily acting in concert with...
• California Penal Code Section 214
  Every person who goes upon or boards any railroad train, car or engine, with the intention of robbing any passenger or other person on such...
• California Penal Code Section 215
  (a) "Carjacking" is the felonious taking of a motor vehicle in the possession of another, from his or her person or immediate presence, or from...
• California Penal Code Section 217.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), every person who commits any assault upon the President or Vice President of the United States, the Governor...
• California Penal Code Section 218
  Every person who unlawfully throws out a switch, removes a rail, or places any obstruction on any railroad with the intention of derailing any passenger,...
• California Penal Code Section 218.1
  Any person who unlawfully and with gross negligence places or causes to be placed any obstruction upon or near the track of any railroad that...
• California Penal Code Section 219
  Every person who unlawfully throws out a switch, removes a rail, or places any obstruction on any railroad with the intention of derailing any passenger,...
• California Penal Code Section 219.1
  Every person who unlawfully throws, hurls or projects at a vehicle operated by a common carrier, while such vehicle is either in motion or stationary,...
• California Penal Code Section 219.2
  Every person who willfully throws, hurls, or projects a stone or other hard substance, or shoots a missile, at a train, locomotive, railway car, caboose,...
• California Penal Code Section 219.3
  Any person who wilfully drops or throws any object or missile from any toll bridge is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Penal Code Section 220
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who assaults another with intent to commit mayhem, rape, sodomy, oral copulation, or any violation of...
• California Penal Code Section 222
  Every person guilty of administering to another any chloroform, ether, laudanum, or any controlled substance, anaesthetic, or intoxicating agent, with intent thereby to enable or...
• California Penal Code Section 236
  False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another.
• California Penal Code Section 236.1
  (a) Any person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to effect or maintain a felony violation of Section 266,...
• California Penal Code Section 236.2
  (a) Within 15 business days of the first encounter of a victim of human trafficking, victim pursuant to Section 236.1, law enforcement agencies shall provide...
• California Penal Code Section 237
  (a) False imprisonment is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than...
• California Penal Code Section 240
  An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another.
• California Penal Code Section 241
  (a) An assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months,...
• California Penal Code Section 241.1
  When an assault is committed against the person of a custodial officer as defined in Section 831 or 831.5, and the person committing the offense...
• California Penal Code Section 241.2
  (a) (1) When an assault is committed on school or park property against any person, the assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding two...
• California Penal Code Section 241.3
  (a) When an assault is committed against any person on the property of, or on a motor vehicle of, a public transportation provider, the offense...
• California Penal Code Section 241.4
  An assault is punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by...
• California Penal Code Section 241.6
  When an assault is committed against a school employee engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or in retaliation for an act performed...
• California Penal Code Section 241.7
  Any person who is a party to a civil or criminal action in which a jury has been selected to try the case and who,...
• California Penal Code Section 241.8
  (a) Any person who commits an assault against a member of the United States Armed Forces because of the victim's service in the United States...
• California Penal Code Section 242
  A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
• California Penal Code Section 243
  (a) A battery is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months,...
• California Penal Code Section 243.1
  When a battery is committed against the person of a custodial officer as defined in Section 831 of the Penal Code, and the person committing...
• California Penal Code Section 243.2
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 243.6, when a battery is committed on school property, park property, or the grounds of a public...
• California Penal Code Section 243.25
  When a battery is committed against the person of an elder or a dependent adult as defined in Section 368, with knowledge that he or...
• California Penal Code Section 243.3
  When a battery is committed against the person of an operator, driver, or passenger on a bus, taxicab, streetcar, cable car, trackless trolley, or other...
• California Penal Code Section 243.35
  (a) Except as provided in Section 243.3, when a battery is committed against any person on the property of, or in a motor vehicle of,...
• California Penal Code Section 243.4
  (a) Any person who touches an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, and if...
• California Penal Code Section 243.5
  (a) When a person commits an assault or battery on school property during hours when school activities are being conducted, a peace officer may, without...
• California Penal Code Section 243.6
  When a battery is committed against a school employee engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or in retaliation for an act performed...
• California Penal Code Section 243.7
  Any person who is a party to a civil or criminal action in which a jury has been selected to try the case and who,...
• California Penal Code Section 243.8
  (a) When a battery is committed against a sports official immediately prior to, during, or immediately following an interscholastic, intercollegiate, or any other organized amateur...
• California Penal Code Section 243.83
  (a) It is unlawful for any person attending a professional sporting event to do any of the following: (1) Throw any object on or across...
• California Penal Code Section 243.9
  (a) Every person confined in any local detention facility who commits a battery by gassing upon the person of any peace officer, as defined in...
• California Penal Code Section 243.10
  (a) Any person who commits a battery against a member of the United States Armed Forces because of the victim's service in the United States...
• California Penal Code Section 244
  Any person who willfully and maliciously places or throws, or causes to be placed or thrown, upon the person of another, any vitriol, corrosive acid,...
• California Penal Code Section 244.5
  (a) As used in this section, "stun gun" means any item, except a taser, used or intended to be used as either an offensive or...
• California Penal Code Section 245
  (a) (1) Any person who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm or by...
• California Penal Code Section 245.1
  As used in Sections 148.2, 241, 243, 244.5, and 245, "fireman" or "firefighter" includes any person who is an officer, employee or member of a...
• California Penal Code Section 245.2
  Every person who commits an assault with a deadly weapon or instrument or by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury upon...
• California Penal Code Section 245.3
  Every person who commits an assault with a deadly weapon or instrument or by any means likely to produce great bodily injury upon the person...
• California Penal Code Section 245.5
  (a) Every person who commits an assault with a deadly weapon or instrument, other than a firearm, or by any means likely to produce great...
• California Penal Code Section 245.6
  (a) It shall be unlawful to engage in hazing, as defined in this section. (b) "Hazing" means any method of initiation or preinitiation into a...
• California Penal Code Section 246
  Any person who shall maliciously and willfully discharge a firearm at an inhabited dwelling house, occupied building, occupied motor vehicle, occupied aircraft, inhabited housecar, as...
• California Penal Code Section 246.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), upon the conviction of any person found guilty of murder in the first or second degree, manslaughter, attempted...
• California Penal Code Section 246.3
  (a) Except as otherwise authorized by law, any person who willfully discharges a firearm in a grossly negligent manner which could result in injury or...
• California Penal Code Section 247
  (a) Any person who willfully and maliciously discharges a firearm at an unoccupied aircraft is guilty of a felony. (b) Any person who discharges a...
• California Penal Code Section 247.5
  Any person who willfully and maliciously discharges a laser at an aircraft, whether in motion or in flight, while occupied, is guilty of a violation...
• California Penal Code Section 248
  Any person who, with the intent to interfere with the operation of an aircraft, willfully shines a light or other bright device, of an intensity...
• California Penal Code Section 261
  (a) Rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person not the spouse of the perpetrator, under any of the following circumstances: (1)...
• California Penal Code Section 261.5
  (a) Unlawful sexual intercourse is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator, if the person...
• California Penal Code Section 261.6
  In prosecutions under Section 261, 262, 286, 288a, or 289, in which consent is at issue, "consent" shall be defined to mean positive cooperation in...
• California Penal Code Section 261.7
  In prosecutions under Section 261, 262, 286, 288a, or 289, in which consent is at issue, evidence that the victim suggested, requested, or otherwise communicated...
• California Penal Code Section 262
  (a) Rape of a person who is the spouse of the perpetrator is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished under any of the following circumstances:...
• California Penal Code Section 263
  The essential guilt of rape consists in the outrage to the person and feelings of the victim of the rape. Any sexual penetration, however slight,...
• California Penal Code Section 264
  (a) Rape, as defined in Section 261 or 262, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. (b) In...
• California Penal Code Section 264.1
  The provisions of Section 264 notwithstanding, in any case in which the defendant, voluntarily acting in concert with another person, by force or violence and...
• California Penal Code Section 264.2
  (a) Whenever there is an alleged violation or violations of subdivision (e) of Section 243, or Section 261, 261.5, 262, 273.5, 286, 288a, or 289,...
• California Penal Code Section 265
  Every person who takes any woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace or duress, compels her to marry him, or to marry any...
• California Penal Code Section 266
  Every person who inveigles or entices any unmarried female, of previous chaste character, under the age of 18 years, into any house of ill fame,...
• California Penal Code Section 266a
  Every person who, within this state, takes any person against his or her will and without his or her consent, or with his or her...
• California Penal Code Section 266b
  Every person who takes any other person unlawfully, and against his or her will, and by force, menace, or duress, compels him or her to...
• California Penal Code Section 266c
  Every person who induces any other person to engage in sexual intercourse, sexual penetration, oral copulation, or sodomy when his or her consent is procured...
• California Penal Code Section 266d
  Any person who receives any money or other valuable thing for or on account of placing in custody any other person for the purpose of...
• California Penal Code Section 266e
  Every person who purchases, or pays any money or other valuable thing for, any person for the purpose of prostitution as defined in subdivision (b)...
• California Penal Code Section 266f
  Every person who sells any person or receives any money or other valuable thing for or on account of his or her placing in custody,...
• California Penal Code Section 266g
  Every man who, by force, intimidation, threats, persuasion, promises, or any other means, places or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place...
• California Penal Code Section 266h
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who, knowing another person is a prostitute, lives or derives support or maintenance in whole or...
• California Penal Code Section 266i
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who does any of the following is guilty of pandering, a felony, and shall be punishable...
• California Penal Code Section 266j
  Any person who intentionally gives, transports, provides, or makes available, or who offers to give, transport, provide, or make available to another person, a child...
• California Penal Code Section 266k
  (a) Upon the conviction of any person for a violation of Section 266h, 266i, or 266j, the court may, in addition to any other penalty...
• California Penal Code Section 267
  Every person who takes away any other person under the age of 18 years from the father, mother, guardian, or other person having the legal...
• California Penal Code Section 269
  (a) Any person who commits any of the following acts upon a child who is under 14 years of age and seven or more years...
• California Penal Code Section 270
  If a parent of a minor child willfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary clothing, food, shelter or medical attendance, or other remedial care...
• California Penal Code Section 270.5
  (a) Every parent who refuses, without lawful excuse, to accept his or her minor child into the parent's home, or, failing to do so, to...
• California Penal Code Section 270.6
  If a court of competent jurisdiction has made a temporary or permanent order awarding spousal support that a person must pay, the person has notice...
• California Penal Code Section 270a
  Every individual who has sufficient ability to provide for his or her spouse's support, or who is able to earn the means of such spouse's...
• California Penal Code Section 270b
  After arrest and before plea or trial, or after conviction or plea of guilty and before sentence under either Section 270 or 270a, if the...
• California Penal Code Section 270c
  Except as provided in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4410) of Part 4 of Division 9 of the Family Code, every adult child who, having...
• California Penal Code Section 270d
  In any case where there is a conviction and sentence under the provisions of either Section 270 or 270a, should a fine be imposed, such...
• California Penal Code Section 270e
  No other evidence shall be required to prove marriage of husband and wife, or that a person is the lawful father or mother of a...
• California Penal Code Section 270f
  Where, under the provisions of this chapter, a report is filed by a parent of a child with the district attorney averring: (1) That the...
• California Penal Code Section 270g
  A review of each report filed with the district attorney under Section 270f shall be made at 90-day intervals unless the support payments have been...
• California Penal Code Section 270h
  In any case where there is a conviction under either Section 270 or 270a and there is an order granting probation which includes an order...
• California Penal Code Section 271
  Every parent of any child under the age of 14 years, and every person to whom any such child has been confided for nurture, or...
• California Penal Code Section 271a
  Every person who knowingly and willfully abandons, or who, having ability so to do, fails or refuses to maintain his or her minor child under...
• California Penal Code Section 271.5
  (a) No parent or other individual having lawful custody of a minor child 72 hours old or younger may be prosecuted for a violation of...
• California Penal Code Section 272
  (a) (1) Every person who commits any act or omits the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes or tends to cause or...
• California Penal Code Section 273
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person or agency to pay, offer to pay, or to receive money or anything of value for the...
• California Penal Code Section 273a
  (a) Any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or...
• California Penal Code Section 273b
  No child under the age of 16 years shall be placed in any courtroom, or in any vehicle for transportation to any place, in company...
• California Penal Code Section 273c
  All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed and collected under the provisions of Sections 270, 271, 271a, 273a, and 273b, or under the provisions of any...
• California Penal Code Section 273d
  (a) Any person who willfully inflicts upon a child any cruel or inhuman corporal punishment or an injury resulting in a traumatic condition is guilty...
• California Penal Code Section 273e
  Every telephone, special delivery company or association, and every other corporation or person engaged in the delivery of packages, letters, notes, messages, or other matter,...
• California Penal Code Section 273f
  Any person, whether as parent, guardian, employer, or otherwise, and any firm or corporation, who as employer or otherwise, shall send, direct, or cause to...
• California Penal Code Section 273g
  Any person who in the presence of any child indulges in any degrading, lewd, immoral or vicious habits or practices, or who is habitually drunk...
• California Penal Code Section 273h
  In all prosecutions under the provisions of either section 270, section 270a, section 270b, section 271 or section 271a, of this code, where a conviction...
• California Penal Code Section 273.1
  (a) Any treatment program to which a child abuser convicted of a violation of Section 273a or 273d is referred as a condition of probation...
• California Penal Code Section 273.4
  (a) If the act constituting a felony violation of subdivision (a) of Section 273a was female genital mutilation, as defined in subdivision (b), the defendant...
• California Penal Code Section 273.5
  (a) Any person who willfully inflicts upon a person who is his or her spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or the mother or father...
• California Penal Code Section 273.6
  (a) Any intentional and knowing violation of a protective order, as defined in Section 6218 of the Family Code, or of an order issued pursuant...
• California Penal Code Section 273.65
  (a) Any intentional and knowing violation of a protective order issued pursuant to Section 213.5, 304, or 362.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is...
• California Penal Code Section 273.7
  (a) Any person who maliciously publishes, disseminates, or otherwise discloses the location of any trafficking shelter or domestic violence shelter or any place designated as...
• California Penal Code Section 273.75
  (a) On any charge involving acts of domestic violence as defined in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 13700 of the Penal Code or Sections...
• California Penal Code Section 273.8
  The Legislature hereby finds that spousal abusers present a clear and present danger to the mental and physical well-being of the citizens of the State...
• California Penal Code Section 273.81
  (a) There is hereby established in the Department of Justice a program of financial and technical assistance for district attorneys' or city attorneys' offices, designated...
• California Penal Code Section 273.82
  Spousal abuser prosecution units receiving funds under this chapter shall concentrate enhanced prosecution efforts and resources upon individuals identified under selection criteria set forth in...
• California Penal Code Section 273.83
  (a) An individual shall be the subject of a spousal abuser prosecution effort who is under arrest for any act or omission described in subdivisions...
• California Penal Code Section 273.84
  Each district attorney's or city attorney's office establishing a spousal abuser prosecution unit and receiving state support under this chapter shall adopt and pursue the...
• California Penal Code Section 273.85
  (a) The selection criteria set forth in Section 273.84 shall be adhered to for each spousal abuser case unless, in the reasonable exercise of prosecutor's...
• California Penal Code Section 273.86
  The characterization of a defendant as a "spousal abuser" as defined by this chapter shall not be communicated to the trier of fact.
• California Penal Code Section 273.87
  The Department of Justice is encouraged to utilize Federal Victims of Crimes Act (VOCA) funds or any other federal funds that may become available in...
• California Penal Code Section 273.88
  Administrative costs incurred by the Department of Justice pursuant to the Spousal Abuser Prosecution Program shall not exceed 5 percent of the total funds allocated...
• California Penal Code Section 277
  The following definitions apply for the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Child" means a person under the age of 18 years. (b) "Court order" or...
• California Penal Code Section 278
  Every person, not having a right to custody, who maliciously takes, entices away, keeps, withholds, or conceals any child with the intent to detain or...
• California Penal Code Section 278.5
  (a) Every person who takes, entices away, keeps, withholds, or conceals a child and maliciously deprives a lawful custodian of a right to custody, or...
• California Penal Code Section 278.6
  (a) At the sentencing hearing following a conviction for a violation of Section 278 or 278.5, or both, the court shall consider any relevant factors...
• California Penal Code Section 278.7
  (a) Section 278.5 does not apply to a person with a right to custody of a child who, with a good faith and reasonable belief...
• California Penal Code Section 279
  A violation of Section 278 or 278.5 by a person who was not a resident of, or present in, this state at the time of...
• California Penal Code Section 279.1
  The offenses enumerated in Sections 278 and 278.5 are continuous in nature, and continue for as long as the minor child is concealed or detained.
• California Penal Code Section 279.5
  When a person is arrested for an alleged violation of Section 278 or 278.5, the court, in setting bail, shall take into consideration whether the...
• California Penal Code Section 279.6
  (a) A law enforcement officer may take a child into protective custody under any of the following circumstances: (1) It reasonably appears to the officer...
• California Penal Code Section 280
  Every person who willfully causes or permits the removal or concealment of any child in violation of Section 8713, 8803, or 8910 of the Family...
• California Penal Code Section 281
  (a) Every person having a husband or wife living, who marries any other person, except in the cases specified in Section 282, is guilty of...
• California Penal Code Section 282
  Section 281 does not extend to any of the following: (a) To any person by reason of any former marriage whose husband or wife by...
• California Penal Code Section 283
  Bigamy is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in...
• California Penal Code Section 284
  Every person who knowingly and willfully marries the husband or wife of another, in any case in which such husband or wife would be punishable...
• California Penal Code Section 285
  Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry with each other, or...
• California Penal Code Section 286
  (a) Sodomy is sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person. Any sexual penetration, however slight,...
• California Penal Code Section 286.5
  Any person who sexually assaults any animal protected by Section 597f for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of the person is...
• California Penal Code Section 288
  (a) Any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part...
• California Penal Code Section 288.1
  Any person convicted of committing any lewd or lascivious act including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1 of this...
• California Penal Code Section 288.2
  (a) Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor, or who fails to exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of...
• California Penal Code Section 288.3
  (a) Every person who contacts or communicates with a minor, or attempts to contact or communicate with a minor, who knows or reasonably should know...
• California Penal Code Section 288.4
  (a) (1) Every person who, motivated by an unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in children, arranges a meeting with a minor or a person he...
• California Penal Code Section 288.5
  (a) Any person who either resides in the same home with the minor child or has recurring access to the child, who over a period...
• California Penal Code Section 288.7
  (a) Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child who is 10 years of age...
• California Penal Code Section 288a
  (a) Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person. (b) (1) Except...
• California Penal Code Section 289
  (a) (1) Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim's will by means of force, violence,...
• California Penal Code Section 289.5
  (a) Every person who flees to this state with the intent to avoid prosecution for an offense which, if committed or attempted in this state,...
• California Penal Code Section 289.6
  (a) (1) An employee or officer of a public entity health facility, or an employee, officer, or agent of a private person or entity that...
• California Penal Code Section 290
  (a) Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the Sex Offender Registration Act. All references to "the Act" in...
• California Penal Code Section 290.001
  Every person who has ever been adjudicated a sexually violent predator, as defined in Section 6600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, shall register in...
• California Penal Code Section 290.002
  Persons required to register in their state of residence who are out-of-state residents employed, or carrying on a vocation in California on a full-time or...
• California Penal Code Section 290.003
  Any person who, since July 1, 1944, has been or hereafter is released, discharged, or paroled from a penal institution where he or she was...
• California Penal Code Section 290.004
  Any person who, since July 1, 1944, has been or hereafter is determined to be a mentally disordered sex offender under Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Penal Code Section 290.005
  The following persons shall register in accordance with the Act: (a) Any person who, since July 1, 1944, has been, or is hereafter convicted in...
• California Penal Code Section 290.006
  Any person ordered by any court to register pursuant to the Act for any offense not included specifically in subdivision (c) of Section 290, shall...
• California Penal Code Section 290.007
  Any person required to register pursuant to any provision of the Act shall register in accordance with the Act, regardless of whether the person's conviction...
• California Penal Code Section 290.008
  (a) Any person who, on or after January 1, 1986, is discharged or paroled from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to the custody of...
• California Penal Code Section 290.009
  Any person required to register under the Act who is enrolled as a student or is an employee or carries on a vocation, with or...
• California Penal Code Section 290.010
  If the person who is registering has more than one residence address at which he or she regularly resides, he or she shall register in...
• California Penal Code Section 290.011
  Every person who is required to register pursuant to the Act who is living as a transient shall be required to register for the rest...
• California Penal Code Section 290.012
  (a) Beginning on his or her first birthday following registration or change of address, the person shall be required to register annually, within five working...
• California Penal Code Section 290.013
  (a) Any person who was last registered at a residence address pursuant to the Act who changes his or her residence address, whether within the...
• California Penal Code Section 290.014
  If any person who is required to register pursuant to the Act changes his or her name, the person shall inform, in person, the law...
• California Penal Code Section 290.015
  (a) A person who is subject to the Act shall register, or reregister if the person has previously registered, upon release from incarceration, placement, commitment,...
• California Penal Code Section 290.016
  (a) On or after January 1, 1998, upon incarceration, placement, or commitment, or prior to release on probation, any person who is required to register...
• California Penal Code Section 290.017
  (a) Any person who is released, discharged, or paroled from a jail, state or federal prison, school, road camp, or other institution where he or...
• California Penal Code Section 290.018
  (a) Any person who is required to register under the Act based on a misdemeanor conviction or juvenile adjudication who willfully violates any requirement of...
• California Penal Code Section 290.019
  (a) Notwithstanding any other section in the Act, a person who was convicted before January 1, 1976, under subdivision (a) of Section 286, or Section...
• California Penal Code Section 290.020
  In any case in which a person who would be required to register pursuant to the Act for a felony conviction is to be temporarily...
• California Penal Code Section 290.021
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the statements, photographs, and fingerprints required by the Act shall not be open to inspection by the public or...
• California Penal Code Section 290.022
  On or before July 1, 2010, the Department of Justice shall renovate the VCIN to do the following: (1) Correct all software deficiencies affecting data...
• California Penal Code Section 290.023
  The registration provisions of the Act are applicable to every person described in the Act, without regard to when his or her crime or crimes...
• California Penal Code Section 290.01
  (a) (1) Commencing October 28, 2002, every person required to register pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.009, inclusive, of the Sex Offender Registration Act who...
• California Penal Code Section 290.02
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Justice shall identify the names of persons required to register pursuant to Section 290 from a list...
• California Penal Code Section 290.03
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a comprehensive system of risk assessment, supervision, monitoring and containment for registered sex offenders residing in California communities...
• California Penal Code Section 290.04
  (a) (1) The sex offender risk assessment tools authorized by this section for use with selected populations shall be known, with respect to each population,...
• California Penal Code Section 290.05
  (a) The SARATSO Training Committee shall be comprised of a representative of the State Department of Mental Health, a representative of the Department of Corrections...
• California Penal Code Section 290.06
  Effective on or before July 1, 2008, the SARATSO, as set forth in Section 290.04, shall be administered as follows: (a) (1) The Department of...
• California Penal Code Section 290.07
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person authorized by statute to administer the State Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders and trained pursuant...
• California Penal Code Section 290.08
  Every district attorney's office and the Department of Justice shall retain records relating to a person convicted of an offense for which registration is required...
• California Penal Code Section 290.3
  (a) Every person who is convicted of any offense specified in subdivision (c) of Section 290 shall, in addition to any imprisonment or fine, or...
• California Penal Code Section 290.4
  (a) The department shall operate a service through which members of the public may provide a list of at least six persons on a form...
• California Penal Code Section 290.45
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in paragraph (2), any designated law enforcement entity may provide information to the...
• California Penal Code Section 290.46
  (a) (1) On or before the dates specified in this section, the Department of Justice shall make available information concerning persons who are required to...
• California Penal Code Section 290.5
  (a) (1) A person required to register under Section 290 for an offense not listed in paragraph (2), upon obtaining a certificate of rehabilitation under...
• California Penal Code Section 290.6
  (a) Fifteen days before the scheduled release date of a person described in subdivision (b), the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide to local...
• California Penal Code Section 290.7
  The Department of Corrections shall provide samples of blood and saliva taken from a prison inmate pursuant to the DNA and Forensic Identification Data Base...
• California Penal Code Section 290.8
  Effective January 1, 1999, any local law enforcement agency that does not register sex offenders during regular daytime business hours on a daily basis, excluding...
• California Penal Code Section 290.85
  (a) Every person released on probation or parole who is required to register as a sex offender, pursuant to Section 290, shall provide proof of...
• California Penal Code Section 290.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state or local governmental agency shall, upon written request, provide to the Department of Justice the address of...
• California Penal Code Section 290.95
  (a) Every person required to register under Section 290, who applies or accepts a position as an employee or volunteer with any person, group, or...
• California Penal Code Section 291
  Every sheriff, chief of police, or the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, upon the arrest for any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290,...
• California Penal Code Section 291.1
  Every sheriff or chief of police, or Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, upon the arrest for any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290...
• California Penal Code Section 291.5
  Every sheriff or chief of police, upon the arrest for any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290 or in subdivision (1) of Section 261...
• California Penal Code Section 292
  It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting this section to clarify that for the purposes of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 12...
• California Penal Code Section 293
  (a) Any employee of a law enforcement agency who personally receives a report from any person, alleging that the person making the report has been...
• California Penal Code Section 293.5
  (a) Except as provided in Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1054) of Part 2 of Title 7, or for cases in which the alleged victim...
• California Penal Code Section 294
  (a) Upon conviction of any person for a violation of Section 273a, 273d, 288.5, 311.2, 311.3, or 647.6, the court may, in addition to any...
• California Penal Code Section 295
  (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the DNA and Forensic Identification Database and Data Bank Act of 1998, as amended....
• California Penal Code Section 295.1
  (a) The Department of Justice shall perform DNA analysis and other forensic identification analysis pursuant to this chapter only for identification purposes. (b) The Department...
• California Penal Code Section 296
  (a) The following persons shall provide buccal swab samples, right thumbprints, and a full palm print impression of each hand, and any blood specimens or...
• California Penal Code Section 296.1
  (a) The specimens, samples, and print impressions required by this chapter shall be collected from persons described in subdivision (a) of Section 296 for present...
• California Penal Code Section 296.2
  (a) Whenever the DNA Laboratory of the Department of Justice notifies the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or any law enforcement agency that a biological...
• California Penal Code Section 297
  (a) Subject to the limitations in paragraph (3) of this subdivision, only the following laboratories are authorized to analyze crime scene samples and other forensic...
• California Penal Code Section 298
  (a) The Director of Corrections, or the Chief Administrative Officer of the detention facility, jail, or other facility at which the blood specimens, buccal swab...
• California Penal Code Section 298.1
  (a) As of the effective date of this chapter, any person who refuses to give any or all of the following, blood specimens, saliva samples,...
• California Penal Code Section 298.2
  (a) Any person who is required to submit a specimen sample or print impression pursuant to this chapter who engages or attempts to engage in...
• California Penal Code Section 298.3
  (a) To ensure expeditious and economical processing of offender specimens and samples for inclusion in the FBI's CODIS System and the state's DNA Database and...
• California Penal Code Section 299
  (a) A person whose DNA profile has been included in the data bank pursuant to this chapter shall have his or her DNA specimen and...
• California Penal Code Section 299.5
  (a) All DNA and forensic identification profiles and other identification information retained by the Department of Justice pursuant to this chapter are exempt from any...
• California Penal Code Section 299.6
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the Department of Justice, in its sole discretion, from the sharing or disseminating of population database or data...
• California Penal Code Section 299.7
  The Department of Justice is authorized to dispose of unused specimens and samples, unused portions of specimens and samples, and expired specimens and samples in...
• California Penal Code Section 300
  Nothing in this chapter shall limit or abrogate any existing authority of law enforcement officers to take, maintain, store, and utilize DNA or forensic identification...
• California Penal Code Section 300.1
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict the authority of local law enforcement to maintain their own DNA-related databases or data banks,...
• California Penal Code Section 300.2
  The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Penal Code Section 300.2
  Any requirement to provide saliva samples pursuant to this chapter shall be construed as a requirement to provide buccal swab samples as of the effective...
• California Penal Code Section 300.3
  The duties and requirements of the Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority pursuant to this chapter shall commence on July 1,
• California Penal Code Section 302
  (a) Every person who intentionally disturbs or disquiets any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, by profane discourse,...
• California Penal Code Section 303
  It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the sale of alcoholic beverages, other than in the original package, to employ upon the premises...
• California Penal Code Section 303a
  It shall be unlawful, in any place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed upon the premises, for any person to loiter...
• California Penal Code Section 307
  Every person, firm, or corporation which sells or gives or in any way furnishes to another person, who is in fact under the age of...
• California Penal Code Section 308
  (a) (1) Every person, firm, or corporation that knowingly or under circumstances in which it has knowledge, or should otherwise have grounds for knowledge, sells,...
• California Penal Code Section 308.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute, or import any tobacco product commonly referred to as "bidis"...
• California Penal Code Section 308.2
  (a) Every person who sells one or more cigarettes, other than in a sealed and properly labeled package, is guilty of an infraction. (b) "A...
• California Penal Code Section 308.3
  (a) A person, firm, corporation, or business may not manufacture for sale, distribute, sell, or offer to sell any cigarette, except in a package containing...
• California Penal Code Section 308.5
  (a) No person or business shall sell, lease, rent, or provide, or offer to sell, lease, rent, or otherwise offer to the public or to...
• California Penal Code Section 308b
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), every person who knowingly delivers or causes to be delivered to any residence in this state any tobacco...
• California Penal Code Section 309
  Any proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or person having the control of any house of prostitution, or any house or room resorted to for the purpose...
• California Penal Code Section 310
  Any minor under the age of 16 years who visits or attends any prizefight, cockfight, or place where any prizefight, or cockfight, is advertised to...
• California Penal Code Section 310.2
  (a) Any coach, trainer, or other