California Penal Code CHAPTER 2 - Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses

• Section 639.
  Every person who gives, offers, or agrees to give to any director, officer, or employee of a financial institution any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or...
• Section 639a.
  Any officer, director or employee of a financial institution who asks, receives, consents, or agrees to receive any commission, emolument, gratuity, or reward or any...
• Section 640.
  (a) (1) Any of the acts described in paragraphs (1) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (b) is an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed two...
• Section 640.2.
  (a) Any person who stamps, prints, places, or inserts any writing in or on any product or box, package, or other container containing a consumer product...
• Section 640.5.
  (a) (1) Any person who defaces with graffiti or other inscribed material the interior or exterior of the facilities or vehicles of a governmental entity, as defined...
• Section 640.6.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in Section 640.5, any person who defaces with graffiti or other inscribed material any real or personal property not his or her...
• Section 640.7.
  Any person who violates Section 594, 640.5, or 640.6 on or within 100 feet of a highway, or its appurtenances, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 640.8.
  Any person who violates Section 594, 640.5, or 640.6, on a freeway, or its appurtenances, including sound walls, overpasses, overpass supports, guardrails, signs, signals, and...
• Section 640a.
  1. Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be...
• Section 640b.
  1. Any person who knowingly, wilfully and with intent to defraud the owner, lessee or licensee of any coin-box telephone, shall operate or cause to be...
• Section 641.
  Every person who, by the payment or promise of any bribe, inducement, or reward, procures or attempts to procure any telegraph or telephone agent, operator,...
• Section 641.3.
  (a) Any employee who solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept money or any thing of value from a person other than his or her employer, other...
• Section 641.4.
  (a) An employee of a title insurer, underwritten title company, or controlled escrow company who corruptly violates Section 12404 of the Insurance Code by paying, directly...
• Section 641.5.
  (a) In any clothes cleaning establishment in which more than one gallon of a volatile, commercially moisture-free solvent of the chlorinated hydrocarbon type is used for...
• Section 641.6.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person engaged in the business of dry cleaning shall use carbon tetrachloride or trichlorethylene as a cleaning agent...
• Section 642.
  Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps possession of and appropriates for his own use articles of value from a dead human body,...
• Section 643.
  No person knowingly shall dispose of fetal remains in a public or private dump, refuse, or disposal site or place open to public view. For...
• Section 645.
  (a) Any person guilty of a first conviction of any offense specified in subdivision (c), where the victim has not attained 13 years of age, may,...
• Section 646.
  It is unlawful for any person with the intent, or for the purpose of instituting a suit thereon outside of this state, to seek or...
• Section 646.5.
  No person shall knowingly and directly solicit employment from any injured person or from any other person to obtain authorization on behalf of the injured...
• Section 646.6.
  No person shall knowingly and directly solicit any injured person, or anyone acting on behalf of any injured person, for the sale or use of...
• Section 646.9.
  (a) Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to...
• Section 646.91.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a judicial officer may issue an ex parte emergency protective order if a peace officer, as defined in Section 830.1, 830.2,...
• Section 646.91a.
  (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 646.91 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain the address or location of...
• Section 646.92.
  (a) (1) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, county sheriff, or director of the local department of corrections shall give notice not less than 15 days prior...
• Section 646.93.
  (a) (1) In those counties where the arrestee is initially incarcerated in a jail operated by the county sheriff, the sheriff shall designate a telephone number that...
• Section 646.94.
  (a) Contingent upon a Budget Act appropriation, the Department of Corrections shall ensure that any parolee convicted of violating Section 646.9 on or after January 1,...
• Section 647.
  Except as provided in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) and subdivision (l), every person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly...
• Section 647.1.
  In addition to any fine assessed under Section 647, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who...
• Section 647.2.
  If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (f) of Section 647 and is granted probation, the court may order, with the consent...
• Section 647.6.
  (a) (1) Every person who annoys or molests any child under 18 years of age shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000),...
• Section 647.7.
  (a) In any case in which a person is convicted of violating subdivision (i) or (j) of Section 647, the court may require counseling as a...
• Section 647.8.
  (a) Matter that is obtained or distributed in violation of subdivision (j) of Section 647 and that is in the possession of any city, county, city...
• Section 647a.
  (a) Any peace officer, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 830.1 or Section 830.31, 830.32, or 830.33, may transport any person, as quickly as is...
• Section 647b.
  Every person who loiters about any school in which adults are in attendance at courses established pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 52500) of...
• Section 647c.
  Every person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the free movement of any person on any street, sidewalk, or other public place or on or in...
• Section 647d.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subdivision (b) shall become operative in a county only if the board of supervisors adopts the provisions of subdivision...
• Section 647e.
  (a) A city, county, or city and county may by local ordinance provide that no person who has in his or her possession any bottle, can...
• Section 648.
  Every person who makes, issues, or puts in circulation any bill, check, ticket, certificate, promissory note, or the paper of any bank, to circulate as...
• Section 648a.
  (a) Every person who has in his or her possession for any illegal purpose or who makes, sells, issues, or puts in circulation any slug or...
• Section 649.
  Any person engaged in the transportation of persons by taxicab or other means of conveyance who knowingly misdirects a prospective guest of any hotel, inn,...
• Section 649a.
  Any person engaged in the operation of any hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse who pays another any compensation for inducing or attempting to induce, by...
• Section 651.
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to buy, receive, sell, give away, dispose of, exchange or barter any Federal order stamps except for the...
• Section 652.
  (a) It shall be an infraction for any person to perform or offer to perform body piercing upon a person under the age of 18 years,...
• Section 653.
  Every person who tattoos or offers to tattoo a person under the age of 18 years is guilty of a misdemeanor.As used in this section,...
• Section 653b.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (c), every person who loiters about any school or public place at or near which children attend or...
• Section 653c.
  (a) No person required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 for an offense committed against an elder or dependent adult, as defined...
• Section 653d.
  Every person who sells machinery used or to be used for mining purposes who fails to give to the buyer, at the time of sale,...
• Section 653f.
  (a) Every person who, with the intent that the crime be committed, solicits another to offer, accept, or join in the offer or acceptance of a...
• Section 653h.
  (a) Every person is guilty of a public offense punishable as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), who:(1) Knowingly and willfully transfers or causes to be transferred...
• Section 653i.
  Any person who is involved in a skiing accident and who leaves the scene of the accident knowing or having reason to believe that any...
• Section 653j.
  (a) Every person 18 years of age or older who, in any voluntary manner, solicits, induces, encourages, or intimidates any minor with the intent that the...
• Section 653m.
  (a) Every person who, with intent to annoy, telephones or makes contact by means of an electronic communication device with another and addresses to or about...
• Section 653n.
  Any person who installs or who maintains after April 1, 1970, any two-way mirror permitting observation of any restroom, toilet, bathroom, washroom, shower, locker room,...
• Section 653o.
  (a) It is unlawful to import into this state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the state, the dead...
• Section 653p.
  It is unlawful to possess with the intent to sell, or to sell, within the state, the dead body, or any part or product thereof,...
• Section 653q.
  It is unlawful to import into this state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the state, the dead...
• Section 653r.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 1557 of the Statutes of 1970, it shall be unlawful to possess with intent to sell, or...
• Section 653s.
  (a) Any person who transports or causes to be transported for monetary or other consideration within this state, any article containing sounds of a live performance...
• Section 653t.
  (a) A person commits a public offense if the person knowingly and maliciously interrupts, disrupts, impedes, or otherwise interferes with the transmission of a communication over...
• Section 653u.
  (a) Any person who records or masters or causes to be recorded or mastered on any article with the intent to sell for commercial advantage or...
• Section 653v.
  Whenever any person is convicted of any violation of Section 653h, 653s, 653u, or 653w the court, in its judgment of conviction, shall, in addition...
• Section 653w.
  (a) (1) A person is guilty of failure to disclose the origin of a recording or audiovisual work if, for commercial advantage or private financial gain, he...
• Section 653x.
  (a) A person who telephones or uses an electronic communication device to initiate communication with the 911 emergency system with the intent to annoy or harass...
• Section 653y.
  (a) A person who knowingly allows the use or who uses the 911 emergency system for any reason other than because of an emergency is guilty...
• Section 653z.
  (a) Every person who operates a recording device in a motion picture theater while a motion picture is being exhibited, for the purpose of recording a...
• Section 653aa.
  (a) Any person, except a minor, who is located in California, who, knowing that a particular recording or audiovisual work is commercial, knowingly electronically disseminates all...
• Section 653.1.
  (a) No person shall sell or distribute any balloon that is constructed of electrically conductive material, and filled with a gas lighter than air without:(1) Affixing an...
• Section 653.2.
  (a) Every person who, with intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of the other person’s immediate...

Last modified: October 22, 2018