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Business and Professions Code § 21805

CHAPTER 11.5. Optical Disc Identification

Current as of September 28, 2026Bus. & Prof. Code, § 21805Official source ↗Ask about this

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 421, Sec. 9. (SB 550) Effective January 1, 2012.

Any person who buys, sells, receives, transfers, or possesses for purposes of sale or rental an optical disc knowing that the identification mark required by this chapter has been removed, defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed, or knowing it was manufactured in California without the required identification mark, or knowing it was manufactured in California with a false identification mark is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a term not exceeding one year, or by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.