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Penal Code § 126

CHAPTER 5. Perjury and Subornation of Perjury

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 126Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 249. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.

Perjury is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three or four years.