CHAPTER 9. Criminal Profiteering [186. - 186.8.]

Chapter 9 added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1281, Sec. 1.

§§ 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…