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Penal Code § 284

CHAPTER 5. Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 284Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 72. (SB 1005) Effective January 1, 2017.

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 spouse would be punishable under the provisions of this chapter, is punishable by a fine not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.