California Penal Code CHAPTER 1 - Rape, Abduction, Carnal Abuse of Children, and Seduction

  • 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) Where a person...
  • 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 is...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Section 261.9.
    (a) Any person convicted of seeking to procure or procuring the sexual services of a prostitute in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 647, if the...
  • 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:(1) Where it...
  • 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,...
  • Section 263.1.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that all forms of nonconsensual sexual assault may be considered rape for purposes of the gravity of the offense and...
  • Section 264.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), rape, as defined in Section 261 or 262, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six,...
  • Section 264.1.
    (a) 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...
  • 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, the...
  • 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...
  • 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,...
  • Section 266a.
    Each person who, within this state, takes any person against his or her will and without his or her consent, or with his or her...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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)...
  • 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,...
  • 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...
  • 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 in...
  • 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 by...
  • 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...
  • Section 266k.
    (a) Upon the conviction of any person for a violation of Section 266h or 266i, the court may, in addition to any other penalty or fine...
  • 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...
  • 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 younger...

Last modified: October 22, 2018