California Penal Code CHAPTER 7 - Extortion

• Section 518.
  (a) Extortion is the obtaining of property or other consideration from another, with his or her consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a...
• Section 519.
  Fear, such as will constitute extortion, may be induced by a threat of any of the following:1. To do an unlawful injury to the person or...
• Section 520.
  Every person who extorts property or other consideration from another, under circumstances not amounting to robbery or carjacking, by means of force, or any threat,...
• Section 521.
  Every person who commits any extortion under color of official right, in cases for which a different punishment is not prescribed in this Code, is...
• Section 522.
  Every person who, by any extortionate means, obtains from another his signature to any paper or instrument, whereby, if such signature were freely given, any...
• Section 523.
  (a) Every person who, with intent to extort property or other consideration from another, sends or delivers to any person any letter or other writing, whether...
• Section 524.
  Every person who attempts, by means of any threat, such as is specified in Section 519 of this code, to extort property or other consideration...
• Section 525.
  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,...
• Section 526.
  Any person, who, with intent to obtain from another person any property or other consideration, delivers or causes to be delivered to the other person...
• Section 527.
  Any person who shall sell or offer for sale, print, publish, or distribute any paper, document or written, typed or printed form, designed or calculated...

Last modified: October 22, 2018