California Penal Code Section 497

CA Penal Code § 497 (2017)  

Every person who, in another state or country steals or embezzles the property of another, or receives such property knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, and brings the same into this state, may be convicted and punished in the same manner as if such larceny, or embezzlement, or receiving, had been committed in this state.

(Amended by Stats. 1905, Ch. 554.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018