California Corporations Code CHAPTER 22 - Crimes and Penalties

• Section 2200.
  Every corporation that neglects, fails, or refuses: (a) to keep or cause to be kept or maintained the record of shareholders or books of account...
• Section 2201.
  Any officer of a corporation charged with the duty of entering a transfer of shares upon the books of the corporation and issuing a share...
• Section 2202.
  Any penalty prescribed by Section 2200 or Section 2201 shall be in addition to any remedy by injunction or action for damages or by writ...
• Section 2203.
  (a) Any foreign corporation which transacts intrastate business and which does not hold a valid certificate from the Secretary of State may be subject to a...
• Section 2204.
  (a) Upon the failure of a corporation to file the statement required by Section 1502, the Secretary of State shall provide a notice of that delinquency...
• Section 2205.
  (a) A corporation that (1) fails to file a statement pursuant to Section 1502 for an applicable filing period, (2) has not filed a statement pursuant...
• Section 2206.
  (a) Sections 2204 and 2205 apply to foreign corporations with respect to the statements required to be filed by Section 2117. For this purpose, the suspension...
• Section 2207.
  (a) A corporation is liable for a civil penalty in an amount not exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) if the corporation does both of the following:(1) Has...
• Section 2251.
  Any promoter, director or officer of a corporation who knowingly and willfully issues or consents to the issuance of certificates for certificated securities, or initial...
• Section 2252.
  Every person (a) who signs the name of a fictitious person to any subscription for or agreement to take stock in any domestic or foreign...
• Section 2253.
  Any director of a stock corporation, domestic or foreign, who concurs in any vote or act of the directors of the corporation or any of...
• Section 2254.
  Every director, officer or agent of any corporation, domestic or foreign, is guilty of a felony (a) who knowingly concurs in making, publishing or posting...
• Section 2255.
  (a) Every director, officer or agent of any corporation, domestic or foreign, who knowingly receives or acquires possession of any property of the corporation, otherwise than...
• Section 2256.
  Every officer, agent or clerk of any corporation, domestic or foreign, or any person proposing to organize such a corporation or to increase the capital...
• Section 2257.
  Every person who, without being authorized so to do, subscribes the name of another to or inserts the name of another in any prospectus, circular...
• Section 2258.
  Any foreign corporation subject to the provisions of Chapter 21 which transacts intrastate business without complying therewith is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine...
• Section 2259.
  Any person who transacts intrastate business on behalf of a foreign corporation which is not authorized to transact such business in this state, knowing that...
• Section 2260.
  In a prosecution for a violation of Section 2252, 2253, 2254, 2255, 2256 or 2257, the fact that the corporation was a foreign corporation is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018