TITLE 7. OF CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE [92. - 186.36.]
Title 7 enacted 1872.
§§ 92–186.36 · 172 sections
CHAPTER 1. Bribery and Corruption §§ 92–100 · 13 sections
- § 92 Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, or to any person who may be authorized by law…
- § 93 (a) Every judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, and every person authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, who…
- § 94 Every judicial officer who asks or receives any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any promise thereof, except such as may be authorized by law, for doing any…
- § 94.5 Every judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of this state who accepts any money or other thing of value for performing any…
- § 95 Every person who corruptly attempts to influence a juror, or any person summoned or drawn as a juror, or chosen as an arbitrator or umpire, or appointed a…
- § 95.1 Every person who threatens a juror with respect to a criminal proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who has the intent and apparent ability to…
- § 95.2 Any person who, with knowledge of the relationship of the parties and without court authorization and juror consent, intentionally provides a defendant or…
- § 95.3 Any person licensed pursuant to Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 7512) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code who, with knowledge of the…
- § 96 Every juror, or person drawn or summoned as a juror, or chosen arbitrator or umpire, or appointed referee, who either: One—Makes any promise or agreement to…
- § 96.5 (a) Every judicial officer, court commissioner, or referee who commits any act that he or she knows perverts or obstructs justice, is guilty of a public…
- § 98 Every officer convicted of any crime defined in this Chapter, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from…
- § 99 The Superintendent of State Printing shall not, during his continuance in office, have any interest, either directly or indirectly, in any contract in any way…
- § 100 If the Superintendent of State Printing corruptly colludes with any person or persons furnishing paper or materials, or bidding therefor, or with any other…
CHAPTER 2. Rescues § 102 · 1 section
- § 102 Every person who willfully injures or destroys, or takes or attempts to take, or assists any person in taking or attempting to take, from the custody of any…
CHAPTER 3. Escapes and Aiding Therein §§ 107–110 · 3 sections
- § 107 Every prisoner charged with or convicted of a felony who is an inmate of any public training school or reformatory or county hospital who escapes or attempts…
- § 109 Any person who willfully assists any inmate of any public training school or reformatory to escape, or in an attempt to escape from that public training school…
- § 110 Every person who carries or sends into a public training school, or reformatory, anything useful to aid a prisoner or inmate in making his escape, with intent…
CHAPTER 4. Forging, Stealing, Mutilating, and Falsifying Judicial and Public Records and Documents §§ 112–117 · 12 sections
- § 112 (a) Any person who manufactures or sells any false government document with the intent to conceal the true citizenship or resident status for immigration…
- § 113 Any person who manufactures, distributes, or sells false documents to conceal the true citizenship or resident status for immigration purposes of another…
- § 114 Any person who uses false documents to conceal their true citizenship or resident status for immigration purposes is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished…
- § 115 (a) Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this state,…
- § 115.1 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the voters of California are entitled to accurate representations in materials that are directed to them in efforts…
- § 115.2 (a) No person shall publish or cause to be published, with actual knowledge, and intent to deceive, any campaign advertisement containing false or fraudulent…
- § 115.25 (a) No person or entity shall authorize the production or distribution, or participate in the authorization of the production or distribution, of any document,…
- § 115.3 Any person who alters a certified copy of an official record, or knowingly furnishes an altered certified copy of an official record, of this state, including…
- § 115.5 (a) Every person who files any false or forged document or instrument with the county recorder which affects title to, places an encumbrance on, or places an…
- § 116 Every person who adds any names to the list of persons selected to serve as jurors for the county, either by placing the names in the jury box or otherwise, or…
- § 116.5 (a) A person is guilty of tampering with a jury when, prior to, or within 90 days of, discharge of the jury in a criminal proceeding, he or she does any of the…
- § 117 Every officer or person required by law to certify to the list of persons selected as jurors who maliciously, corruptly, or willfully certifies to a false or…
CHAPTER 5. Perjury and Subornation of Perjury §§ 118–131 · 15 sections
- § 118 (a) Every person who, having taken an oath that he or she will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly before any competent tribunal, officer, or person, in…
- § 118.1 (a) Every peace officer who, in their capacity as a peace officer, knowingly and intentionally makes, or causes to be made, any material statement in a peace…
- § 118a Any person who, in any affidavit taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, swears, affirms, declares, deposes, or certifies that he will testify,…
- § 119 The term “oath,” as used in the last two sections, includes an affirmation and every other mode authorized by law of attesting the truth of that which is…
- § 120 So much of an oath of office as relates to the future performance of official duties is not such an oath as is intended by the two preceding sections.
- § 121 It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the oath was administered or taken in an irregular manner, or that the person accused of perjury did not go…
- § 122 It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused was not competent to give the testimony, deposition, or certificate of which falsehood is…
- § 123 It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused did not know the materiality of the false statement made by him; or that it did not, in fact,…
- § 124 The making of a deposition, affidavit or certificate is deemed to be complete, within the provisions of this chapter, from the time when it is delivered by the…
- § 125 An unqualified statement of that which one does not know to be true is equivalent to a statement of that which one knows to be false.
- § 126 Perjury is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three or four years.
- § 127 Every person who willfully procures another person to commit perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and is punishable in the same manner as he would be…
- § 128 Every person who, by willful perjury or subornation of perjury procures the conviction and execution of any innocent person, is punishable by death or life…
- § 129 Every person who, being required by law to make any return, statement, or report, under oath, willfully makes and delivers any such return, statement, or…
- § 131 Every person in any matter under investigation for a violation of the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Part 1 (commencing with Section 25000) of Division 1 of…
CHAPTER 6. Falsifying Evidence, and Bribing, Influencing, Intimidating or Threatening Witnesses §§ 132–141 · 17 sections
- § 132 Every person who upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation whatever, authorized or permitted by law, offers in evidence, as genuine or true, any…
- § 132.5 (a) A person who is a witness to an event or occurrence that he or she knows, or reasonably should know, is a crime or who has personal knowledge of facts that… see note
- § 133 Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token, or writing, to any witness or person…
- § 134 Every person guilty of preparing any false or ante-dated book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or…
- § 135 A person who, knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, digital image, video recording owned by another, or other matter or thing, is about…
- § 135.5 Any person who knowingly alters, tampers with, conceals, or destroys relevant evidence in any disciplinary proceeding against a public safety officer, for the…
- § 136 As used in this chapter: (1) “Malice” means an intent to vex, annoy, harm, or injure in any way another person, or to thwart or interfere in any manner with…
- § 136.1 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a person who does any of the following is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in a…
- § 136.2 (a) (1) Upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur, a court…
- § 136.3 (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 136.2 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain the address or location of a…
- § 136.5 Any person who has upon his person a deadly weapon with the intent to use such weapon to commit a violation of Section 136.1 is guilty of an offense punishable…
- § 136.7 (a) Every person imprisoned in a county jail or the state prison who has been convicted of a sexual offense, including, but not limited to, a violation of…
- § 137 (a) Every person who gives or offers, or promises to give, to any witness, person about to be called as a witness, or person about to give material information…
- § 138 (a) Every person who gives or offers or promises to give to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, any bribe upon any understanding or…
- § 139 (a) Except as provided in Sections 71 and 136.1, any person who has been convicted of any felony offense specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 29900)…
- § 140 (a) Except as provided in Section 139, every person who willfully uses force or threatens to use force or violence upon the person of a witness to, or a victim…
- § 141 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a person who knowingly, willfully, intentionally, and wrongfully alters, modifies, plants, places,…
CHAPTER 7. Other Offenses Against Public Justice §§ 142–181 · 76 sections
- § 142 (a) Any peace officer who has the authority to receive or arrest a person charged with a criminal offense and willfully refuses to receive or arrest that…
- § 145 Every public officer or other person, having arrested any person upon a criminal charge, who willfully delays to take such person before a magistrate having…
- § 145.5 (a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no agency of the State of California, no political subdivision of this state, no…
- § 146 Every public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, does any of the…
- § 146a (a) Any person who falsely represents himself or herself to be a deputy or clerk in any state department and who, in that assumed character, does any of the…
- § 146b Every person who, with intent to lead another to believe that a request or demand for information is being made by the State, a county, city, or other…
- § 146c Every person who designates any nongovernmental organization by any name, including, but not limited to any name that incorporates the term “peace officer,”…
- § 146d Every person who sells or gives to another a membership card, badge, or other device, where it can be reasonably inferred by the recipient that display of the…
- § 146e (a) Every person who maliciously, and with the intent to obstruct justice or the due administration of the laws, or with the intent to, or threat to, inflict…
- § 146f No inmate under the control or supervision of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority shall be permitted to work with records or…
- § 146g (a) Any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, any employee of a law enforcement agency, any attorney as…
- § 147 Every officer who is guilty of willful inhumanity or oppression toward any prisoner under his care or in his custody, is punishable by fine not exceeding four…
- § 148 (a) (1) Every person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division…
- § 148.1 (a) Any person who reports to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, employee of a fire department or fire…
- § 148.2 Every person who willfully commits any of the following acts at the burning of a building or at any other time and place where any fireman or firemen or…
- § 148.3 (a) Any individual who reports, or causes any report to be made, to any city, county, city and county, or state department, district, agency, division,…
- § 148.4 (a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, not exceeding one…
- § 148.5 (a) Every person who reports to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, the Attorney General, or a deputy…
- § 148.6 (a) (1) Every person who files any allegation of misconduct against any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of…
- § 148.7 Every person who, for the purpose of serving in any county or city jail, industrial farm or road camp, or other local correctional institution any part or all…
- § 148.9 (a) Any person who falsely represents or identifies himself or herself as another person or as a fictitious person to any peace officer listed in Section 830.1…
- § 148.10 (a) Every person who willfully resists a peace officer in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment and whose willful…
- § 149 Every public officer who, under color of authority, without lawful necessity, assaults or beats any person, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand…
- § 151 (a) Any person who advocates the willful and unlawful killing or injuring of a peace officer, with the specific intent to cause the willful and unlawful…
- § 152 (a) Every person who, having knowledge of an accidental death, actively conceals or attempts to conceal that death, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable…
- § 152.3 (a) Any person who reasonably believes that he or she has observed the commission of any of the following offenses where the victim is a child under 14 years…
- § 153 Every person who, having knowledge of the actual commission of a crime, takes money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement, or…
- § 154 (a) Every debtor who fraudulently removes his or her property or effects out of this state, or who fraudulently sells, conveys, assigns or conceals his or her…
- § 155 (a) Every person against whom an action is pending, or against whom a judgment has been rendered for the recovery of any personal property, who fraudulently…
- § 155.5 (a) Any defendant who is ordered to pay any fine or restitution in connection with the commission of a misdemeanor and who, after the plea or judgment and…
- § 156 Every person who fraudulently produces an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of any parent whose child would be entitled to inherit any real…
- § 157 Every person to whom an infant has been confided for nursing, education, or any other purpose, who, with intent to deceive any parent or guardian of that…
- § 158 Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and…
- § 159 No person can be convicted of common barratry except upon proof that he has excited suits or proceedings at law in at least three instances, and with a corrupt…
- § 160 (a) No bail licensee may employ, engage, solicit, pay, or promise any payment, compensation, consideration or thing of value to any person incarcerated in any…
- § 165 Every person who gives or offers a bribe to any member of any common council, board of supervisors, or board of trustees of any county, city and county, city,…
- § 166 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), a person guilty of any of the following contempts of court is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1)…
- § 166.5 (a) After arrest and before plea or trial or after conviction or plea of guilty and before sentence under paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 166, for…
- § 167 Every person who, by any means whatsoever, willfully and knowingly, and without knowledge and consent of the jury, records, or attempts to record, all or part…
- § 168 (a) Every district attorney, clerk, judge, or peace officer who, except by issuing or in executing a search warrant or warrant of arrest for a felony,…
- § 169 Any person who pickets or parades in or near a building which houses a court of this state with the intent to interfere with, obstruct, or impede the…
- § 170 Every person who maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant or warrant of arrest to be issued and executed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- § 171 Every person, not authorized by law, who, without the permission of the officer in charge of any reformatory in this State, communicates with any person…
- § 171b (a) Any person who brings or possesses within any state or local public building or at any meeting required to be open to the public pursuant to Chapter 9…
- § 171c (a) (1) Any person who brings a loaded firearm into, or possesses a loaded firearm within, the State Capitol, the state office building at 1021 O Street in the…
- § 171d Any person, except a duly appointed peace officer as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, a full-time paid peace officer…
- § 171e A firearm shall be deemed loaded for the purposes of Sections 171c and 171d whenever both the firearm and unexpended ammunition capable of being discharged…
- § 171f No person or group of persons shall willfully and knowingly: 1. Enter or remain within or upon any part of the chamber of either house of the Legislature…
- § 171.5 (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Airport” means an airport, with a secured area, that regularly serves an air carrier holding a certificate issued by the…
- § 171.7 (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Public transit facility” means any land, building, or equipment, or an interest therein, including a station on a public…
- § 172 (a) Every person who, within one-half mile of the land belonging to this state upon which any state prison, or within 1,900 feet of the land belonging to this…
- § 172a Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the university grounds or campus, upon which are located the principal administrative offices of any…
- § 172b 1. Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the boundaries of the grounds belonging to the University of California at Los Angeles on which the…
- § 172c Section 172a shall not apply to the sale at auction of alcoholic beverages by a nonprofit organization at the California Science Center premises located at…
- § 172d 1. Every person who, within one mile of that portion of the grounds at Riverside (hereinafter described) belonging to the University of California, that will…
- § 172e The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g of this code shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages…
- § 172f The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g of this code shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for sale of any intoxicating…
- § 172g (a) Every person who, within one-half mile by air line from the intersection of Sierra Vista, Pierce, and Campus Drive streets at the entrance to La Sierra…
- § 172h The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d and 172g of this code shall not be applied to prohibit the sale or the exposing or offering for sale of any…
- § 172j The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g shall not apply to the sale or exposing for sale of any intoxicating liquor on the premises of, and…
- § 172l The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or offering for sale of any intoxicating liquor on the premises of, and by the holder or agent of a…
- § 172m The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or the exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages at premises licensed under any type of…
- § 172n The provisions of Sections 172a and 172b shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by any off-sale licensee under the…
- § 172o The provisions of Sections 172, 172a, 172b, 172d, and 172g shall not apply to the sale of wine for consumption off the premises where sold when the wine is…
- § 172p The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of beer or wine by any on-sale licensee under the Alcoholic…
- § 172.1 No provision of law shall prevent the possession or use of wine on any state university, state college or community college premises solely for use in…
- § 172.3 The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of any alcoholic beverages on the premises of, and by the holder or…
- § 172.5 The provisions of Sections 172 and 172a of this code shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by a licensee under…
- § 172.6 The provisions of Section 172 of this code shall not apply to the sale, gift, or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by a licensee under the…
- § 172.7 The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale, gift, or exposing or offering for sale of alcoholic beverages by a licensee under the Alcoholic…
- § 172.8 The provisions of Section 172a shall not apply to the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, by a nonprofit organization at a municipally…
- § 172.9 The word “university,” when used in this chapter with reference to the sale, exposing or offering for sale, of alcoholic beverages, means an institution which…
- § 172.95 Sections 172 to 172.9, inclusive, do not apply to sales to wholesalers or retailers by licensed winegrowers, brandy manufacturers, beer manufacturers,…
- § 173 Every Captain, Master of a vessel, or other person, who willfully imports, brings, or sends, or causes or procures to be brought or sent, into this State, any…
- § 175 Every individual person of the classes referred to in Section 173, brought to or landed within this state contrary to the provisions of such section, renders…
- § 181 Every person who holds, or attempts to hold, any person in involuntary servitude, or assumes, or attempts to assume, rights of ownership over any person, or…
CHAPTER 8. Conspiracy §§ 182–185.5 · 6 sections
- § 182 (a) If two or more persons conspire: (1) To commit any crime. (2) Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any crime, or to procure another to be charged…
- § 182.5 Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) or (b) of Section 182, any person who actively participates in any criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision (f) of…
- § 183 No conspiracies, other than those enumerated in the preceding section, are punishable criminally.
- § 184 No agreement amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act, beside such agreement, be done within this state to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the…
- § [185.] Section One Hundred and Eighty-five. It shall be unlawful for any person to wear any mask, false whiskers, or any personal disguise (whether complete or…
- § 185.5 (a) A law enforcement officer shall not wear a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties, except as…
CHAPTER 9. Criminal Profiteering §§ 186–186.8 · 9 sections
- § 186 This act may be cited as the “California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act.”
- § 186.1 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that an effective means of punishing and deterring criminal activities of organized crime is through the forfeiture…
- § 186.2 For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Criminal profiteering activity” means an act committed or attempted or a threat made for…
- § 186.3 (a) In any case in which a person is alleged to have been engaged in a pattern of criminal profiteering activity, upon a conviction of the underlying offense,…
- § 186.4 (a) The prosecuting agency shall, in conjunction with the criminal proceeding, file a petition of forfeiture with the superior court of the county in which the…
- § 186.5 (a) Any person claiming an interest in the property or proceeds may, at any time within 30 days from the date of the first publication of the notice of…
- § 186.6 (a) Concurrent with, or subsequent to, the filing of the petition, the prosecuting agency may move the superior court for the following pendente lite orders to…
- § 186.7 (a) If the trier of fact at the forfeiture hearing finds that the alleged property or proceeds is forfeitable pursuant to Section 186.3 and the defendant was…
- § 186.8 Notwithstanding that no response or claim has been filed pursuant to Section 186.5, in all cases where property is forfeited pursuant to this chapter and, if…
CHAPTER 10. Money Laundering §§ 186.9–186.10 · 2 sections
- § 186.9 As used in this chapter: (a) “Conducts” includes, but is not limited to, initiating, concluding, or participating in conducting, initiating, or concluding a…
- § 186.10 (a) Any person who conducts or attempts to conduct a transaction or more than one transaction within a seven-day period involving a monetary instrument or…
CHAPTER 10.5. Fraud and Embezzlement: Victim Restitution §§ 186.11–186.12 · 2 sections
- § 186.11 (a) (1) Any person who commits two or more related felonies, a material element of which is fraud or embezzlement, which involve a pattern of related felony…
- § 186.12 (a) (1) A felony for purposes of this section means a felony violation of subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 368, or a felony violation of subdivision (c) of…
CHAPTER 11. Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act §§ 186.20–186.36 · 16 sections
- § 186.20 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act.”
- § 186.21 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is the right of every person, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, gender…
- § 186.22 (a) A person who actively participates in a criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage in, or have engaged in, a pattern of criminal gang…
- § 186.22a (a) Every building or place used by members of a criminal street gang for the purpose of the commission of the offenses listed in subdivision (e) of Section…
- § 186.23 This chapter does not apply to employees engaged in concerted activities for their mutual aid and protection, or the activities of labor organizations or their…
- § 186.24 If any part or provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, including…
- § 186.25 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws consistent with this chapter relating to gangs and gang violence.…
- § 186.26 (a) Any person who solicits or recruits another to actively participate in a criminal street gang, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 186.22, with the…
- § 186.28 (a) Any person, corporation, or firm who shall knowingly supply, sell, or give possession or control of any firearm to another shall be punished by…
- § 186.30 (a) Any person described in subdivision (b) shall register with the chief of police of the city in which he or she resides, or the sheriff of the county if he…
- § 186.31 At the time of sentencing in adult court, or at the time of the dispositional hearing in the juvenile court, the court shall inform any person subject to…
- § 186.32 (a) The registration required by Section 186.30 shall consist of the following: (1) Juvenile registration shall include the following: (A) The juvenile shall…
- § 186.33 (a) Any person required to register pursuant to Section 186.30 who knowingly violates any of its provisions is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) (1) Any person who…
- § 186.34 (a) For purposes of this section and Sections 186.35 and 186.36, the following definitions apply: (1) “Criminal street gang” means an ongoing organization,…
- § 186.35 (a) A person who is listed by a law enforcement agency in a shared gang database as a gang member, suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate and who has…
- § 186.36 (a) The Department of Justice is responsible for establishing regulations for shared gang databases. All shared gang databases shall comply with those…