California Penal Code CHAPTER 5 - Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature

  • Section 281.
    (a) Every person having a spouse living, who marries or enters into a registered domestic partnership with any other person, except in the cases specified in...
  • Section 282.
    Section 281 does not extend to any of the following:(a) To any person by reason of any former marriage or former registered domestic partnership whose spouse...
  • Section 283.
    Bigamy is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in...
  • Section 284.
    Every person who knowingly and willfully marries or enters into a registered domestic partnership with the spouse of another, in any case in which such...
  • Section 285.
    Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry with each other, or...
  • Section 286.
    (a) Sodomy is sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is...
  • Section 286.5.
    Any person who sexually assaults any animal protected by Section 597f for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of the person is...
  • Section 288.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (i), any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other...
  • Section 288.1.
    Any person convicted of committing any lewd or lascivious act including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1 of this...
  • Section 288.2.
    (a) (1) Every person who knows, should have known, or believes that another person is a minor, and who knowingly distributes, sends, causes to be sent, exhibits,...
  • Section 288.3.
    (a) Every person who contacts or communicates with a minor, or attempts to contact or communicate with a minor, who knows or reasonably should know that...
  • Section 288.4.
    (a) (1) Every person who, motivated by an unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in children, arranges a meeting with a minor or a person he or she...
  • Section 288.5.
    (a) Any person who either resides in the same home with the minor child or has recurring access to the child, who over a period of...
  • Section 288.7.
    (a) Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child who is 10 years of age or...
  • Section 288a.
    (a) Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person.(b) (1) Except as provided in Section...
  • Section 289.
    (a) (1) (A) Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim’s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace,...
  • Section 289.5.
    (a) Every person who flees to this state with the intent to avoid prosecution for an offense which, if committed or attempted in this state, would...
  • Section 289.6.
    (a) (1) An employee or officer of a public entity health facility, or an employee, officer, or agent of a private person or entity that provides a...

Last modified: October 22, 2018