TITLE 10. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY [369a. - 402c.]

Title 10 enacted 1872.

§§ 369a–402c · 66 sections

§ 369a (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) Rail transit traffic safety programs are necessary to educate the public about the potential…
§ 369b (a) This section shall only apply to counties with a population greater than 500,000. (b) The court may order any person convicted of a rail transit related…
§ 369d Any person who enters upon or crosses any railroad, at any private passway, which is inclosed by bars or gates, and neglects to leave the same securely closed…
§ 369g (a) Any person who rides, drives, or propels any vehicle upon and along the track of any railroad through or over its private right-of-way, without the…
§ 369h Any person, partnership, firm or corporation installing, setting up, maintaining or operating upon public or private property, any sign or light in line of…
§ 369i (a) (1) Any person who enters or remains upon the property of any railroad without the permission of the owner of the land, the owner’s agent, or the person in…
§ [370.] Section Three Hundred and Seventy. Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of…
§ 371 An act which affects an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, as specified in the last section, is not less a nuisance…
§ 372 Every person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who willfully omits to perform any legal…
§ 372.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 372, if a defendant is sentenced for a violation of Section 370 based on a disposition negotiated between the defendant and the…
§ 372.7 Local law enforcement or a local jurisdiction shall not bring or threaten a nuisance action pursuant to Section 372 or 373a against a business, or impose fines…
§ 373a Each person who maintains, permits, or allows a public nuisance to exist upon his or her property or premises, and each person occupying or leasing the…
§ 374 (a) Littering means the willful or negligent throwing, dropping, placing, depositing, or sweeping, or causing any such acts, of any waste matter on land or…
§ 374.2 (a) It is unlawful for any person to maliciously discharge, dump, release, place, drop, pour, or otherwise deposit, or to maliciously cause to be discharged,…
§ 374.3 (a) It is unlawful to dump or cause to be dumped waste matter in or upon a public or private highway or road, including any portion of the right-of-way…
§ 374.4 (a) It is unlawful to litter or cause to be littered in or upon public or private property. A person, firm, or corporation violating this section is guilty of…
§ 374.5 (a) It is unlawful for any grease waste hauler to do either of the following: (1) Reinsert, deposit, dump, place, release, or discharge into a grease trap,…
§ 374.7 (a) A person who litters or causes to be littered, or dumps or causes to be dumped, waste matter into a bay, lagoon, channel, river, creek, slough, canal,…
§ 374.8 (a) In any prosecution under this section, proof of the elements of the offense shall not be dependent upon the requirements of Title 22 of the California Code…
§ 374a A person giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person for a violation of Section 374c, 374.2, 374.3, 374.4, or 374.7 is entitled to a…
§ 374c Every person who shoots any firearm from or upon a public road or highway is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 374d Every person who knowingly allows the carcass of any dead animal which belonged to him at the time of its death to be put, or to remain, within 100 feet of any…
§ 375 (a) It shall be unlawful to throw, drop, pour, deposit, release, discharge or expose, or to attempt to throw, drop, pour, deposit, release, discharge or expose…
§ 377 Every person who, in order to obtain for himself or another any drug that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only on prescription, falsely represents…
§ 379 Every person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, gives, or offers to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give Salvia…
§ 380 (a) Every person who sells, dispenses or distributes toluene, or any substance or material containing toluene, to any person who is less than 18 years of age…
§ 381 (a) Any person who possesses toluene or any substance or material containing toluene, including, but not limited to, glue, cement, dope, paint thinner, paint…
§ 381a Any person, or persons, whether as principals, agents, managers, or otherwise, who buy or sell dairy products, or deal in milk, cream or butter, and who buy or…
§ 381b Any person who possesses nitrous oxide or any substance containing nitrous oxide, with the intent to breathe, inhale, or ingest for the purpose of causing a…
§ 381c (a) As used in this section, “nitrous oxide” refers to any of the following substances: N2O, dinitrogen monoxide, dinitrogen oxide, nitrogen oxide, or laughing…
§ 381d (a) A person who dispenses or distributes nitrous oxide to a person, and knows or should know that the person is going to use the nitrous oxide in violation of…
§ 381e (a) A person who dispenses or distributes nitrous oxide shall record each transaction involving the dispensing or distribution of nitrous oxide in a written or…
§ 382 Every person who adulterates or dilutes any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, or any article useful in compounding…
§ 382.4 No person, other than a licensed veterinarian, shall administer succinylcholine, also known as sucostrin, to any dog or cat. Violation of this section shall…
§ 382.5 Every person who sells, dispenses, administers or prescribes dinitrophenol for any purpose shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine not less than one…
§ 382.6 Every person who sells, dispenses, administers or prescribes preparations containing diphenylamine, paraphenylenediamine, or paratoluylenediamine, or a…
§ 382.7 Every person who knowingly prescribes, dispenses, administers, or furnishes any liquid silicone substance for the purpose of injection into a human breast or…
§ 383 Every person who knowingly sells, or keeps or offers for sale, or otherwise disposes of any article of food, drink, drug, or medicine, knowing that the same is…
§ 383a Any person, firm, or corporation, who sells or offers for sale, or has in his or its possession for sale, any butter manufactured by boiling, melting,…
§ 383b Every person who with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations, and falsely represents the same to be kosher, whether such…
§ 383c Every person who with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale any meat or meat preparations, and falsely represents the same to be halal, whether the meat…
§ 384 (a) Any person who shall wilfully refuse to immediately relinquish a party line when informed that such line is needed for an emergency call, and in fact such…
§ 384.5 (a) (1) Any person who removes any minor forest products from the property where the products were cut and transports the products upon any public road or…
§ 384a (a) (1) A person shall not willfully or negligently cut, destroy, mutilate, or remove plant material that is growing upon state or county highway…
§ 384b For the purposes of Sections 384c through 384f, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this section govern the…
§ 384c Persons purchasing trees, shrubs, or boughs from harvesters thereof shall not transport more than five trees or more than five pounds of shrubs or boughs on…
§ 384d Upon the filing of an application containing the information required by Section 384c, and the presentation of a permit or proof of ownership as required by…
§ 384e (a) The transportation tag described in Section 384d shall be presented to any peace officer upon demand. (b) Failure to produce a transportation tag properly…
§ 384f Any person violating any of the provisions of Sections 384b through 384f shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a…
§ 384h Every person who willfully or negligently, while hunting upon the inclosed lands of another, kills, maims, or wounds an animal, the property of another, is…
§ 384i (a) Sections 384a to 384f, inclusive, shall not apply to maintenance and construction activities of public agencies and their employees. (b) Sections 384b to…
§ 385 (a) The term “high voltage” as used in this section means a voltage in excess of 750 volts, measured between conductors or measured between the conductor and…
§ 386 (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously constructs or maintains a fire-protection system in any structure with the intent to install a fire protection…
§ 387 (a) Any corporation, limited liability company, or person who is a manager with respect to a product, facility, equipment, process, place of employment, or…
§ 395 Every person who willfully makes or publishes any false statement, spreads any false rumor, or employs any other false or fraudulent means or device, with…
§ 396 (a) The Legislature hereby finds that during a state of emergency or local emergency, including, but not limited to, an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm,…
§ 396.5 It shall be unlawful for any retail food store or wholesale food concern, as defined in Section 3(k) of the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (Public Law…
§ 397 Every person who sells or furnishes, or causes to be sold or furnished, intoxicating liquors to any habitual or common drunkard, or to any person who has been…
§ 398 (a) If a person owning or having custody or control of an animal knows, or has reason to know, that the animal bit another person, he or she shall, as soon as…
§ 399 (a) If any person owning or having custody or control of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensities, willfully suffers it to go at large, or keeps it…
§ 399.5 (a) Any person owning or having custody or control of a dog trained to fight, attack, or kill is guilty of a felony or a misdemeanor, punishable by…
§ 401 (a) Any person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony. (b) A person whose actions are compliant with the…
§ 402 (a) (1) Every person who goes to the scene of an emergency, or stops at the scene of an emergency, for the purpose of viewing the scene or the activities of…
§ 402a Every person who adulterates candy by using in its manufacture terra alba or other deleterious substances, or who sells or keeps for sale any candy or candies…
§ 402b Any person who discards or abandons or leaves in any place accessible to children any refrigerator, icebox, deep-freeze locker, clothes dryer, washing machine,…
§ 402c On and after January 1, 1970, any person who sells a new refrigerator, icebox, or deep-freeze locker not equipped with an integral lock in this state, having a…