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Penal Code § 497

CHAPTER 5. Larceny

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 497Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 1905, Ch. 554.

Every person who, in another state or country steals or embezzles the property of another, or receives such property knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, and brings the same into this state, may be convicted and punished in the same manner as if such larceny, or embezzlement, or receiving, had been committed in this state.