California Penal Code CHAPTER 5 - Larceny

  • Section 484.
    (a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall fraudulently appropriate property which has...
  • Section 484.1.
    (a) Any person who knowingly gives false information or provides false verification as to the person’s true identity or as to the person’s ownership interest in...
  • Section 484b.
    Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining or paying for services, labor, materials or equipment and willfully fails to apply such money...
  • Section 484c.
    Any person who submits a false voucher to obtain construction loan funds and does not use the funds for the purpose for which the claim...
  • Section 484d.
    As used in this section and Sections 484e to 484j, inclusive:(1) “Cardholder” means any person to whom an access card is issued or any person who...
  • Section 484e.
    (a) Every person who, with intent to defraud, sells, transfers, or conveys, an access card, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, is guilty of grand theft.(b) Every...
  • Section 484f.
    (a) Every person who, with the intent to defraud, designs, makes, alters, or embosses a counterfeit access card or utters or otherwise attempts to use a...
  • Section 484g.
    Every person who, with the intent to defraud, (a) uses, for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value, an access...
  • Section 484h.
    Every retailer or other person who, with intent to defraud:(a) Furnishes money, goods, services or anything else of value upon presentation of an access card obtained...
  • Section 484i.
    (a) Every person who possesses an incomplete access card, with intent to complete it without the consent of the issuer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) Every person...
  • Section 484j.
    Any person who publishes the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked, expired or nonexistent access card, personal identification number, computer password, access code,...
  • Section 485.
    One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such...
  • Section 486.
    Theft is divided into two degrees, the first of which is termed grand theft; the second, petty theft.(Amended by Stats. 1927, Ch. 619.)
  • Section 487.
    Grand theft is theft committed in any of the following cases:(a) When the money, labor, or real or personal property taken is of a value exceeding...
  • Section 487a.
    (a) Every person who feloniously steals, takes, carries, leads, or drives away any horse, mare, gelding, any bovine animal, any caprine animal, mule, jack, jenny, sheep,...
  • Section 487b.
    Every person who converts real estate of the value of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or more into personal property by severance from the realty...
  • Section 487c.
    Every person who converts real estate of the value of less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) into personal property by severance from the realty...
  • Section 487d.
    Every person who feloniously steals, takes, and carries away, or attempts to take, steal, and carry from any mining claim, tunnel, sluice, undercurrent, riffle box,...
  • Section 487e.
    Every person who feloniously steals, takes, or carries away a dog of another which is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950) is...
  • Section 487f.
    Every person who feloniously steals, takes, or carries away a dog of another which is of a value not exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950)...
  • Section 487g.
    Every person who steals or maliciously takes or carries away any animal of another for purposes of sale, medical research, slaughter, or other commercial use,...
  • Section 487h.
    (a) Every person who steals, takes, or carries away cargo of another, if the cargo taken is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950),...
  • Section 487i.
    Any person who defrauds a housing program of a public housing authority of more than four hundred dollars ($400) is guilty of grand theft.(Added by...
  • Section 487j.
    Every person who steals, takes, or carries away copper materials of another, including, but not limited to, copper wire, copper cable, copper tubing, and copper...
  • Section 488.
    Theft in other cases is petty theft.(Amended by Stats. 1927, Ch. 619.)
  • Section 489.
    Grand theft is punishable as follows:(a) If the grand theft involves the theft of a firearm, by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or...
  • Section 490.
    Petty theft is punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both.(Amended...
  • Section 490a.
    Wherever any law or statute of this state refers to or mentions larceny, embezzlement, or stealing, said law or statute shall hereafter be read and...
  • Section 490.1.
    (a) Petty theft, where the value of the money, labor, real or personal property taken is of a value which does not exceed fifty dollars ($50),...
  • Section 490.2.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 487 or any other provision of law defining grand theft, obtaining any property by theft where the value of the money, labor, real...
  • Section 490.5.
    (a) Upon a first conviction for petty theft involving merchandise taken from a merchant’s premises or a book or other library materials taken from a library...
  • Section 490.6.
    (a) A person employed by an amusement park may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose of conducting an investigation in a reasonable...
  • Section 490.7.
    (a) The Legislature finds that free newspapers provide a key source of information to the public, in many cases providing an important alternative to the news...
  • Section 491.
    Dogs are personal property, and their value is to be ascertained in the same manner as the value of other property.(Amended by Stats. 1887, Ch.
  • Section 492.
    If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt, or other written instrument, the amount of money due thereupon, or secured to be paid...
  • Section 493.
    If the thing stolen is any ticket or other paper or writing entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage...
  • Section 494.
    All the provisions of this Chapter apply where the property taken is an instrument for the payment of money, evidence of debt, public security, or...
  • Section 495.
    The provisions of this Chapter apply where the thing taken is any fixture or part of the realty, and is severed at the time of...
  • Section 496.
    (a) Every person who buys or receives any property that has been stolen or that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, knowing...
  • Section 496a.
    (a) Every person who is a dealer in or collector of junk, metals, or secondhand materials, or the agent, employee, or representative of such dealer or...
  • Section 496b.
    Every person who, being a dealer in or collector of second-hand books or other literary material, or the agent, employee or representative of such dealer,...
  • Section 496c.
    Any person who shall copy, transcribe, photograph or otherwise make a record or memorandum of the contents of any private and unpublished paper, book, record,...
  • Section 496d.
    (a) Every person who buys or receives any motor vehicle, as defined in Section 415 of the Vehicle Code, any trailer, as defined in Section 630...
  • Section 496e.
    (a) Any person who is engaged in the salvage, recycling, purchase, or sale of scrap metal and who possesses any of the following items that were...
  • Section 497.
    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...
  • Section 498.
    (a) The following definitions govern the construction of this section:(1) “Person” means any individual, or any partnership, firm, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity.(2) “Utility”...
  • Section 499.
    (a) Any person who, having been convicted of a previous violation of Section 10851 of the Vehicle Code, or of subdivision (d) of Section 487, involving...
  • Section 499b.
    (a) Any person who shall, without the permission of the owner thereof, take any bicycle for the purpose of temporarily using or operating the same, is...
  • Section 499c.
    (a) As used in this section:(1) “Access” means to approach, a way or means of approaching, nearing, admittance to, including to instruct, communicate with, store information in,...
  • Section 499d.
    Any person who operates or takes an aircraft not his own, without the consent of the owner thereof, and with intent to either permanently or...
  • Section 500.
    (a) Any person who receives money for the actual or purported purpose of transmitting the same or its equivalent to foreign countries as specified in Section...
  • Section 501.
    Upon a trial for larceny or embezzlement of money, bank notes, certificates of stock, or valuable securities, the allegation of the indictment or information, so...
  • Section 502.
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to expand the degree of protection afforded to individuals, businesses, and governmental agencies from...
  • Section 502.01.
    (a) As used in this section:(1) “Property subject to forfeiture” means any property of the defendant that is illegal telecommunications equipment as defined in subdivision (g) of...
  • Section 502.5.
    Every person who, after mortgaging or encumbering by deed of trust any real property, and during the existence of such mortgage or deed of trust,...
  • Section 502.6.
    (a) Any person who knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to defraud, possesses a scanning device, or who knowingly, willfully, and with intent to defraud, uses...
  • Section 502.7.
    (a) Any person who, knowingly, willfully, and with intent to defraud a person providing telephone or telegraph service, avoids or attempts to avoid, or aids, abets...
  • Section 502.8.
    (a) Any person who knowingly advertises illegal telecommunications equipment is guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) Any person who possesses or uses illegal telecommunications equipment intending to avoid the...
  • Section 502.9.
    Upon conviction of a felony violation under this chapter, the fact that the victim was an elder or dependent person, as defined in Section 288,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018