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Penal Code § 530

CHAPTER 8. False Personation and Cheats

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 530Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 1905, Ch. 523.

Every person who falsely personates another, in either his private or official capacity, and in such assumed character receives any money or property, knowing that it is intended to be delivered to the individual so personated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, or to that of another person, or to deprive the true owner thereof, is punishable in the same manner and to the same extent as for larceny of the money or property so received.