California Penal Code CHAPTER 9 - Criminal Profiteering

• Section 186.
  This act may be cited as the “California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act.”(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1281, Sec. 1.)
• 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...
• 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 gain or...
• 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 the...
• 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 the...
• 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 of...
• 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 to...
• 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 defendant...
• 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,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018