CHAPTER 8. False Personation and Cheats [528. - 539.]
Chapter 8 enacted 1872.
§§ 528–539 · 45 sections
- § 528 Every person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed character marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage relation towards another,…
- § 528.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person through or on an…
- § 529 (a) Every person who falsely personates another in either his or her private or official capacity, and in that assumed character does any of the following, is…
- § 529a Every person who manufactures, produces, sells, offers, or transfers to another any document purporting to be either a certificate of birth or certificate of…
- § 529.5 (a) Every person who manufactures, sells, offers for sale, or transfers any document, not amounting to counterfeit, purporting to be a government-issued…
- § 529.6 (a) (1) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Freedom to Count Act. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all Californians…
- § 529.7 Any person who obtains, or assists another person in obtaining, a driver’s license, identification card, vehicle registration certificate, or any other…
- § 530 Every person who falsely personates another, in either his private or official capacity, and in such assumed character receives any money or property, knowing…
- § 530.5 (a) Every person who willfully obtains personal identifying information, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 530.55, of another person, and uses that…
- § 530.55 (a) For purposes of this chapter, “person” means a natural person, living or deceased, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company,…
- § 530.6 (a) A person who has learned or reasonably suspects that his or her personal identifying information has been unlawfully used by another, as described in…
- § 530.7 (a) In order for a victim of identity theft to be included in the data base established pursuant to subdivision (c), he or she shall submit to the Department…
- § 530.8 (a) If a person discovers that an application in their name for a loan, credit line or account, credit card, charge card, public utility service, mail…
- § 531 Every person who is a party to any fraudulent conveyance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, goods or chattels, or any right or interest issuing out of…
- § 531a Every person who, with intent to defraud, knowingly executes or procures another to execute any instrument purporting to convey any real property, or any right…
- § 532 (a) Every person who knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defrauds any other person of money, labor, or property,…
- § 532a (1) Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing,…
- § 532b (a) A person who fraudulently represents themselves as a veteran or ex-serviceman of a war in which the United States was engaged, in connection with the…
- § 532c Any person, firm, corporation or copartnership who knowingly and designedly offers or gives with winning numbers at any drawing of numbers or with tickets of…
- § 532d (a) Any person who solicits or attempts to solicit or receives money or property of any kind for a charitable, religious or eleemosynary purpose and who,…
- § 532e Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining or paying for services, labor, materials or equipment incident to constructing improvements on real…
- § 532f (a) A person commits mortgage fraud if, with the intent to defraud, the person does any of the following: (1) Deliberately makes any misstatement,…
- § 533 Every person who, after once selling, bartering, or disposing of any tract of land or town lot, or after executing any bond or agreement for the sale of any…
- § 534 Every person who is married or in a registered domestic partnership, who falsely and fraudulently represents himself or herself as competent to sell or…
- § 535 Every person who obtains any money or property from another, or obtains the signature of another to any written instrument, the false making of which would be…
- § 536 Every commission merchant, broker, agent, factor, or consignee, who shall willfully and corruptly make, or cause to be made, to the principal or consignor of…
- § 536a It is hereby made the duty of every commission merchant, broker, factor, or consignee, to whom any property is consigned or entrusted for sale, to make, when…
- § 537 (a) Any person who obtains any food, fuel, services, or accommodations at a hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse, lodginghouse, apartment house, bungalow…
- § 537b Any person who obtains any livery hire or other accommodation at any livery or feed stable, kept for profit, in this state, without paying therefor, with…
- § 537c Every owner, manager, proprietor, or other person, having the management, charge or control of any livery stable, feed or boarding stable, and every person…
- § 537e (a) Any person who knowingly buys, sells, receives, disposes of, conceals, or has in his or her possession any personal property from which the manufacturer’s…
- § 537f No storage battery composed in whole or in part of a used container, or used plate or plates and intended for use in the starting, lighting or ignition of…
- § 537g (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, any person who knowingly removes, defaces, covers, alters or destroys a National Crime Information Center owner…
- § 538 Every person, who, after mortgaging any of the property permitted to be mortgaged by the provisions of Sections 9102 and 9109 of the Commercial Code, excepting…
- § 538a Every person who signs any letter addressed to a newspaper with the name of a person other than himself and sends such letter to the newspaper, or causes it to…
- § 538b Any person who wilfully wears the badge, lapel button, rosette, or any part of the garb, robe, habit, or any other recognized and established insignia or…
- § 538c (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who attaches or inserts an unauthorized advertisement in a newspaper, whether alone or in concert with…
- § 538d (a) Any person other than one who by law is given the authority of a law enforcement officer, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform,…
- § 538e (a) Any person, other than an officer or member of a fire department, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform, insignia, emblem, device,…
- § 538f Any person, other than an employee of a public utility or district as defined in Sections 216 and 11503 of the Public Utilities Code, respectively, who…
- § 538g (a) Any person, other than a state, county, city, special district, or city and county officer or employee, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the…
- § 538h (a) Any person, other than an officer or member of a government agency managed or affiliated search and rescue unit or team, who willfully wears, exhibits, or…
- § 538i (a) Any person, other than a first responder, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the uniform, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or…
- § 538.5 Every person who transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication any words, sounds, writings, signs, signals, or…
- § 539 Every person who, with the intent to defraud, certifies that a person ordered by the court to participate in community service as a condition of probation has…