California Penal Code CHAPTER 8 - False Personation and Cheats

  • Section 528.
    Every person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed character marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage relation towards another, with...
  • Section 528.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person through or on an Internet Web site...
  • Section 529.
    (a) Every person who falsely personates another in either his or her private or official capacity, and in that assumed character does any of the following,...
  • Section 529a.
    Every person who manufactures, produces, sells, offers, or transfers to another any document purporting to be either a certificate of birth or certificate of baptism,...
  • Section 529.5.
    (a) Every person who manufactures, sells, offers for sale, or transfers any document, not amounting to counterfeit, purporting to be a government-issued identification card or driver’s...
  • Section 529.7.
    Any person who obtains, or assists another person in obtaining, a driver’s license, identification card, vehicle registration certificate, or any other official document issued by...
  • Section 530.
    Every person who falsely personates another, in either his private or official capacity, and in such assumed character receives any money or property, knowing that...
  • Section 530.5.
    (a) Every person who willfully obtains personal identifying information, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 530.55, of another person, and uses that information for any...
  • Section 530.55.
    (a) For purposes of this chapter, “person” means a natural person, living or deceased, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, or...
  • Section 530.6.
    (a) A person who has learned or reasonably suspects that his or her personal identifying information has been unlawfully used by another, as described in subdivision...
  • Section 530.7.
    (a) In order for a victim of identity theft to be included in the data base established pursuant to subdivision (c), he or she shall submit...
  • Section 530.8.
    (a) If a person discovers that an application in his or her name for a loan, credit line or account, credit card, charge card, public utility...
  • Section 531.
    Every person who is a party to any fraudulent conveyance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, goods or chattels, or any right or interest issuing...
  • Section 531a.
    Every person who, with intent to defraud, knowingly executes or procures another to execute any instrument purporting to convey any real property, or any right...
  • Section 532.
    (a) Every person who knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defrauds any other person of money, labor, or property, whether real...
  • Section 532a.
    (1) Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing,...
  • Section 532b.
    (a) A person who fraudulently represents himself or herself as a veteran or ex-serviceman of a war in which the United States was engaged, in connection...
  • Section 532c.
    Any person, firm, corporation or copartnership who knowingly and designedly offers or gives with winning numbers at any drawing of numbers or with tickets of...
  • Section 532d.
    (a) Any person who solicits or attempts to solicit or receives money or property of any kind for a charitable, religious or eleemosynary purpose and who,...
  • Section 532e.
    Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining or paying for services, labor, materials or equipment incident to constructing improvements on real property...
  • Section 532f.
    (a) A person commits mortgage fraud if, with the intent to defraud, the person does any of the following:(1) Deliberately makes any misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission during...
  • Section 533.
    Every person who, after once selling, bartering, or disposing of any tract of land or town lot, or after executing any bond or agreement for...
  • Section 534.
    Every person who is married or in a registered domestic partnership, who falsely and fraudulently represents himself or herself as competent to sell or mortgage...
  • Section 535.
    Every person who obtains any money or property from another, or obtains the signature of another to any written instrument, the false making of which...
  • Section 536.
    Every commission merchant, broker, agent, factor, or consignee, who shall willfully and corruptly make, or cause to be made, to the principal or consignor of...
  • Section 536a.
    It is hereby made the duty of every commission merchant, broker, factor, or consignee, to whom any property is consigned or entrusted for sale, to...
  • Section 537.
    (a) Any person who obtains any food, fuel, services, or accommodations at a hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse, lodginghouse, apartment house, bungalow court, motel, marina, marine facility,...
  • Section 537b.
    Any person who obtains any livery hire or other accommodation at any livery or feed stable, kept for profit, in this state, without paying therefor,...
  • Section 537c.
    Every owner, manager, proprietor, or other person, having the management, charge or control of any livery stable, feed or boarding stable, and every person pasturing...
  • Section 537e.
    (a) Any person who knowingly buys, sells, receives, disposes of, conceals, or has in his or her possession any personal property from which the manufacturer’s serial...
  • Section 537f.
    No storage battery composed in whole or in part of a used container, or used plate or plates and intended for use in the starting,...
  • Section 537g.
    (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, any person who knowingly removes, defaces, covers, alters or destroys a National Crime Information Center owner identification number from the...
  • Section 538.
    Every person, who, after mortgaging any of the property permitted to be mortgaged by the provisions of Sections 9102 and 9109 of the Commercial Code,...
  • Section 538a.
    Every person who signs any letter addressed to a newspaper with the name of a person other than himself and sends such letter to the...
  • Section 538b.
    Any person who wilfully wears the badge, lapel button, rosette, or any part of the garb, robe, habit, or any other recognized and established insignia...
  • Section 538c.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who attaches or inserts an unauthorized advertisement in a newspaper, whether alone or in concert with another,...
  • Section 538d.
    (a) Any person other than one who by law is given the authority of a peace officer, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform,...
  • Section 538e.
    (a) Any person, other than an officer or member of a fire department, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform, insignia, emblem, device, label,...
  • Section 538f.
    Any person, other than an employee of a public utility or district as defined in Sections 216 and 11503 of the Public Utilities Code, respectively,...
  • Section 538g.
    (a) Any person, other than a state, county, city, special district, or city and county officer or employee, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized...
  • Section 538.5.
    Every person who transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication any words, sounds, writings, signs, signals, or pictures...
  • Section 539.
    Every person who, with the intent to defraud, certifies that a person ordered by the court to participate in community service as a condition of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018