California Penal Code CHAPTER 6 - Embezzlement
- Section 503.
Embezzlement is the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted.(Enacted 1872.)
- Section 504.
Every officer of this state, or of any county, city, city and county, or other municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, and every deputy, clerk, or...
- Section 504a.
Every person who shall fraudulently remove, conceal or dispose of any goods, chattels or effects, leased or let to him by any instrument in writing,...
- Section 504b.
Where under the terms of a security agreement, as defined in paragraph (74) of subdivision (a) of Section 9102 of the Commercial Code, the debtor...
- Section 505.
Every carrier or other person having under his control personal property for the purpose of transportation for hire, who fraudulently appropriates it to any use...
- Section 506.
Every trustee, banker, merchant, broker, attorney, agent, assignee in trust, executor, administrator, or collector, or person otherwise intrusted with or having in his control property...
- Section 506a.
Any person who, acting as collector, or acting in any capacity in or about a business conducted for the collection of accounts or debts owing...
- Section 506b.
Any person who violates Section 2985.3 or 2985.4 of the Civil Code, relating to real property sales contracts, is guilty of a public offense punishable...
- Section 507.
Every person intrusted with any property as bailee, tenant, or lodger, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, who fraudulently...
- Section 508.
Every clerk, agent, or servant of any person who fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his...
- Section 509.
A distinct act of taking is not necessary to constitute embezzlement.(Enacted 1872.)
- Section 510.
Any evidence of debt, negotiable by delivery only, and actually executed, is the subject of embezzlement, whether it has been delivered or issued as a...
- Section 511.
Upon any indictment for embezzlement, it is a sufficient defense that the property was appropriated openly and avowedly, and under a claim of title preferred...
- Section 512.
The fact that the accused intended to restore the property embezzled, is no ground of defense or mitigation of punishment, if it has not been...
- Section 513.
Whenever, prior to an information laid before a magistrate, or an indictment found by a grand jury, charging the commission of embezzlement, the person accused...
- Section 514.
Every person guilty of embezzlement is punishable in the manner prescribed for theft of property of the value or kind embezzled; and where the property...
- Section 515.
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