California Penal Code CHAPTER 7 - Other Offenses Against Public Justice
- Section 142.
(a) Any peace officer who has the authority to receive or arrest a person charged with a criminal offense and willfully refuses to receive or arrest...
- Section 145.
Every public officer or other person, having arrested any person upon a criminal charge, who willfully delays to take such person before a magistrate having...
- Section 145.5.
(a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no agency of the State of California, no political subdivision of this state, no employee...
- Section 146.
Every public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, does...
- Section 146a.
(a) Any person who falsely represents himself or herself to be a deputy or clerk in any state department and who, in that assumed character, does...
- Section 146b.
Every person who, with intent to lead another to believe that a request or demand for information is being made by the State, a county,...
- Section 146c.
Every person who designates any nongovernmental organization by any name, including, but not limited to any name that incorporates the term “peace officer,” “police,” or...
- Section 146d.
Every person who sells or gives to another a membership card, badge, or other device, where it can be reasonably inferred by the recipient that...
- Section 146e.
(a) Every person who maliciously, and with the intent to obstruct justice or the due administration of the laws, or with the intent or threat to...
- Section 146f.
No inmate under the control or supervision of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority shall be permitted to work with...
- Section 146g.
(a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, any employee of a law enforcement agency,...
- Section 147.
Every officer who is guilty of willful inhumanity or oppression toward any prisoner under his care or in his custody, is punishable by fine not...
- Section 148.
(a) (1) Every person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with...
- Section 148.1.
(a) Any person who reports to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, employee of a fire department...
- Section 148.2.
Every person who willfully commits any of the following acts at the burning of a building or at any other time and place where any...
- Section 148.3.
(a) Any individual who reports, or causes any report to be made, to any city, county, city and county, or state department, district, agency, division, commission,...
- Section 148.4.
(a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, not...
- Section 148.5.
(a) Every person who reports to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, the Attorney General, or a...
- Section 148.6.
(a) (1) Every person who files any allegation of misconduct against any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of...
- Section 148.7.
Every person who, for the purpose of serving in any county or city jail, industrial farm or road camp, or other local correctional institution any...
- Section 148.9.
(a) Any person who falsely represents or identifies himself or herself as another person or as a fictitious person to any peace officer listed in Section...
- Section 148.10.a.
(a) Every person who willfully resists a peace officer in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment and...
- Section 149.
Every public officer who, under color of authority, without lawful necessity, assaults or beats any person, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand...
- Section 150.
Every able-bodied person above 18 years of age who neglects or refuses to join the posse comitatus or power of the county, by neglecting or...
- Section 151.
(a) Any person who advocates the willful and unlawful killing or injuring of a peace officer, with the specific intent to cause the willful and unlawful...
- Section 152.
(a) Every person who, having knowledge of an accidental death, actively conceals or attempts to conceal that death, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by...
- Section 152.3.
(a) Any person who reasonably believes that he or she has observed the commission of any of the following offenses where the victim is a child...
- Section 153.
Every person who, having knowledge of the actual commission of a crime, takes money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any...
- Section 154.
(a) Every debtor who fraudulently removes his or her property or effects out of this state, or who fraudulently sells, conveys, assigns or conceals his or...
- Section 155.
(a) Every person against whom an action is pending, or against whom a judgment has been rendered for the recovery of any personal property, who fraudulently...
- Section 155.5.
(a) Any defendant who is ordered to pay any fine or restitution in connection with the commission of a misdemeanor and who, after the plea or...
- Section 156.
Every person who fraudulently produces an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of any parent whose child would be entitled to inherit any...
- Section 157.
Every person to whom an infant has been confided for nursing, education, or any other purpose, who, with intent to deceive any parent or guardian...
- Section 158.
Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by...
- Section 159.
No person can be convicted of common barratry except upon proof that he has excited suits or proceedings at law in at least three instances,...
- Section 160.
(a) No bail licensee may employ, engage, solicit, pay, or promise any payment, compensation, consideration or thing of value to any person incarcerated in any prison,...
- Section 165.
Every person who gives or offers a bribe to any member of any common council, board of supervisors, or board of trustees of any county,...
- Section 166.
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), a person guilty of any of the following contempts of court is guilty of a misdemeanor:(1) Disorderly,...
- Section 166.5.
(a) After arrest and before plea or trial or after conviction or plea of guilty and before sentence under paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section...
- Section 167.
Every person who, by any means whatsoever, willfully and knowingly, and without knowledge and consent of the jury, records, or attempts to record, all or...
- Section 168.
(a) Every district attorney, clerk, judge, or peace officer who, except by issuing or in executing a search warrant or warrant of arrest for a felony,...
- Section 169.
Any person who pickets or parades in or near a building which houses a court of this state with the intent to interfere with, obstruct,...
- Section 170.
Every person who maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant or warrant of arrest to be issued and executed, is guilty of a...
- Section 171.
Every person, not authorized by law, who, without the permission of the officer in charge of any reformatory in this State, communicates with any person...
- Section 171b.
(a) Any person who brings or possesses within any state or local public building or at any meeting required to be open to the public pursuant...
- Section 171c.
(a) (1) Any person who brings a loaded firearm into, or possesses a loaded firearm within, the State Capitol, any legislative office, any office of the Governor...
- Section 171d.
Any person, except a duly appointed peace officer as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, a full-time...
- Section 171e.
A firearm shall be deemed loaded for the purposes of Sections 171c and 171d whenever both the firearm and unexpended ammunition capable of being discharged...
- Section 171f.
No person or group of persons shall willfully and knowingly:1. Enter or remain within or upon any part of the chamber of either house of the...
- Section 171.5.
(a) For purposes of this section:(1) “Airport” means an airport, with a secured area, that regularly serves an air carrier holding a certificate issued by the United...
- Section 171.7.
(a) For purposes of this section:(1) “Public transit facility” means any land, building, or equipment, or any interest therein, including any station on a public transportation route,...
- Section 172.
(a) Every person who, within one-half mile of the land belonging to this state upon which any state prison, or within 1,900 feet of the land...
- Section 172a.
Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the university grounds or campus, upon which are located the principal administrative offices of any university...
- Section 172b.
1. Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the boundaries of the grounds belonging to the University of California at Los Angeles on which...
- Section 172c.
Section 172a shall not apply to the sale at auction of alcoholic beverages by a nonprofit organization at the California Science Center premises located at...
- Section 172d.
1. Every person who, within one mile of that portion of the grounds at Riverside (hereinafter described) belonging to the University of California, that will be...
- Section 172e.
The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g of this code shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for...
- Section 172f.
The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g of this code shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for...
- Section 172g.
(a) Every person who, within one-half mile by air line from the intersection of Sierra Vista, Pierce, and Campus Drive streets at the entrance to La...
- Section 172h.
The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d and 172g of this code shall not be applied to prohibit the sale or the exposing or...
- Section 172j.
The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g shall not apply to the sale or exposing for sale of any intoxicating liquor on...
- Section 172l.
The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or offering for sale of any intoxicating liquor on the premises of, and by...
- Section 172m.
The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages at premises licensed under...
- Section 172n.
The provisions of Sections 172a and 172b shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by any off-sale...
- Section 172o.
The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g shall not apply to the sale of wine for consumption off the premises where sold...
- Section 172p.
The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of beer or wine by any on-sale licensee...
- Section 172.1.
No provision of law shall prevent the possession or use of wine on any state university, state college or community college premises solely for use...
- Section 172.3.
The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of any alcoholic beverages on the premises of,...
- Section 172.5.
The provisions of Sections 172 and 172a of this code shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages...
- Section 172.6.
The provisions of Section 172 of this code shall not apply to the sale, gift, or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by...
- Section 172.7.
The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale, gift, or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by a licensee under...
- Section 172.8.
The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, by a nonprofit organization at a...
- Section 172.9.
The word “university,” when used in this chapter with reference to the sale, exposing or offering for sale, of alcoholic beverages, means an institution which...
- Section 172.95.
Sections 172 to 172.9, inclusive, do not apply to sales to wholesalers or retailers by licensed winegrowers, brandy manufacturers, beer manufacturers, distilled spirits manufacturers’ agents,...
- Section 173.
Every Captain, Master of a vessel, or other person, who willfully imports, brings, or sends, or causes or procures to be brought or sent, into...
- Section 175.
Every individual person of the classes referred to in Section 173, brought to or landed within this state contrary to the provisions of such section,...
- Section 181.
Every person who holds, or attempts to hold, any person in involuntary servitude, or assumes, or attempts to assume, rights of ownership over any person,...
Last modified: October 22, 2018