CHAPTER 5. Larceny

Chapter 5 enacted 1872.

§§ 484–502.9 · 66 sections

§ 484 (a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall fraudulently appropriate property…
§ 484.1 (a) Any person who knowingly gives false information or provides false verification as to the person’s true identity or as to the person’s ownership interest…
§ 484b Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining or paying for services, labor, materials or equipment and willfully fails to apply such money for…
§ 484c Any person who submits a false voucher to obtain construction loan funds and does not use the funds for the purpose for which the claim was submitted is guilty…
§ 484d As used in this section and Sections 484e to 484j, inclusive: (1) “Cardholder” means any person to whom an access card is issued or any person who has agreed…
§ 484e (a) Every person who, with intent to defraud, sells, transfers, or conveys, an access card, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, is guilty of grand…
§ 484f (a) Every person who, with the intent to defraud, designs, makes, alters, or embosses a counterfeit access card or utters or otherwise attempts to use a…
§ 484g Every person who, with the intent to defraud, (a) uses, for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value, an access card or…
§ 484h Every retailer or other person who, with intent to defraud: (a) Furnishes money, goods, services or anything else of value upon presentation of an access card…
§ 484i (a) Every person who possesses an incomplete access card, with intent to complete it without the consent of the issuer, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Every…
§ 484j Any person who publishes the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked, expired or nonexistent access card, personal identification number, computer…
§ 485 One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his…
§ 486 Theft is divided into two degrees, the first of which is termed grand theft; the second, petty theft.
§ 487 Grand theft is theft committed in any of the following cases: (a) When the money, labor, real property, or personal property taken is of a value exceeding nine…
§ 487a (a) Every person who feloniously steals, takes, carries, leads, or drives away any horse, mare, gelding, any bovine animal, any caprine animal, mule, jack,…
§ 487b Every person who converts real estate of the value of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or more into personal property by severance from the realty of another,…
§ 487c Every person who converts real estate of the value of less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) into personal property by severance from the realty of…
§ 487d Every person who feloniously steals, takes, and carries away, or attempts to take, steal, and carry from any mining claim, tunnel, sluice, undercurrent, riffle…
§ 487e (a) Every person who feloniously steals, takes, or carries away a companion animal of another which is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950)…
§ 487f (a) Every person who feloniously steals, takes, or carries away a companion animal of another which is of a value not exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars…
§ 487g Every person who steals or maliciously takes or carries away any animal of another for purposes of sale, medical research, slaughter, or other commercial use,…
§ 487h (a) Every person who steals, takes, or carries away cargo of another, if the cargo taken is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950), except as…
§ 487i Any person who defrauds a housing program of a public housing authority of more than four hundred dollars ($400) is guilty of grand theft.
§ 487j Every person who steals, takes, or carries away copper materials of another, including, but not limited to, copper wire, copper cable, copper tubing, and…
§ 487k A person who steals, takes, or carries away tractors, all-terrain vehicles, or other agricultural equipment, or any portion thereof, used in the acquisition or…
§ 487m (a) Notwithstanding Sections 215 and 216 of the Labor Code, the intentional theft of wages in an amount greater than nine hundred fifty dollars ($950) from any…
§ 488 Theft in other cases is petty theft.
§ 489 Grand theft is punishable as follows: (a) If the grand theft involves the theft of a firearm, by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or two or…
§ 490 Petty theft is punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both.
§ 490a Wherever any law or statute of this state refers to or mentions larceny, embezzlement, or stealing, said law or statute shall hereafter be read and interpreted…
§ 490.1 (a) Petty theft, where the value of the money, labor, real or personal property taken is of a value which does not exceed fifty dollars ($50), may be charged…
§ 490.2 (a) Notwithstanding Section 487 or any other provision of law defining grand theft, obtaining any property by theft where the value of the money, labor, real…
§ 490.3 Notwithstanding any other law, in any case involving one or more acts of theft or shoplifting, including, but not limited to, violations of Sections 459.5,…
§ 490.4 (a) A person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of organized retail theft and shall be punished pursuant to subdivision (b): (1) Acts in concert…
§ 490.5 (a) Upon a first conviction for petty theft involving merchandise taken from a merchant’s premises or a book or other library materials taken from a library…
§ 490.6 (a) A person employed by an amusement park may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose of conducting an investigation in a reasonable manner…
§ 490.7 (a) The Legislature finds that free newspapers provide a key source of information to the public, in many cases providing an important alternative to the news…
§ 490.8 (a) A court sentencing a defendant for any violation described in subdivision (b) shall consider issuing an order restraining the defendant from entering the…
§ 491 (a) Companion animals are personal property, and their value is to be ascertained in the same manner as the value of other property. (b) (1) For purposes of…
§ 492 If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt, or other written instrument, the amount of money due thereupon, or secured to be paid thereby, and…
§ 493 If the thing stolen is any ticket or other paper or writing entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad…
§ 494 All the provisions of this Chapter apply where the property taken is an instrument for the payment of money, evidence of debt, public security, or passage…
§ 495 The provisions of this Chapter apply where the thing taken is any fixture or part of the realty, and is severed at the time of the taking, in the same manner…
§ 496 (a) Every person who buys or receives any property that has been stolen or that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, knowing the…
§ 496.5 (a) A person who unlawfully possesses property that was acquired through one or more acts of theft from a vehicle, unlawful entry of a vehicle, burglary of a…
§ 496.6 (a) Any person who possesses property unlawfully that was acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, whether…
§ 496a (a) Every person who is a dealer in or collector of junk, metals, or secondhand materials, or the agent, employee, or representative of such dealer or…
§ 496b Every person who, being a dealer in or collector of second-hand books or other literary material, or the agent, employee or representative of such dealer, or…
§ 496c Any person who shall copy, transcribe, photograph or otherwise make a record or memorandum of the contents of any private and unpublished paper, book, record,…
§ 496d (a) Every person who buys or receives any motor vehicle, as defined in Section 415 of the Vehicle Code, any trailer, as defined in Section 630 of the Vehicle…
§ 496e (a) Any person who is engaged in the salvage, recycling, purchase, or sale of scrap metal and who possesses any of the following items that were owned or…
§ 497 Every person who, in another state or country steals or embezzles the property of another, or receives such property knowing it to have been stolen or…
§ 498 (a) The following definitions govern the construction of this section: (1) “Person” means any individual, or any partnership, firm, association, corporation,…
§ 499 (a) Any person who, having been convicted of a previous violation of Section 10851 of the Vehicle Code, or of subdivision (d) of Section 487, involving a…
§ 499b (a) Any person who shall, without the permission of the owner thereof, take any bicycle for the purpose of temporarily using or operating the same, is guilty…
§ 499c (a) As used in this section: (1) “Access” means to approach, a way or means of approaching, nearing, admittance to, including to instruct, communicate with,…
§ 499d Any person who operates or takes an aircraft not his own, without the consent of the owner thereof, and with intent to either permanently or temporarily…
§ 500 (a) Any person who receives money for the actual or purported purpose of transmitting the same or its equivalent to foreign countries as specified in Section…
§ 501 Upon a trial for larceny or embezzlement of money, bank notes, certificates of stock, or valuable securities, the allegation of the indictment or information,…
§ 502 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to expand the degree of protection afforded to individuals, businesses, and governmental…
§ 502.01 (a) As used in this section: (1) “Property subject to forfeiture” means any property of the defendant that is illegal telecommunications equipment as defined…
§ 502.5 Every person who, after mortgaging or encumbering by deed of trust any real property, and during the existence of such mortgage or deed of trust, or after such…
§ 502.6 (a) Any person who knowingly, willfully, and with the intent to defraud, possesses a scanning device, or who knowingly, willfully, and with intent to defraud,…
§ 502.7 (a) Any person who, knowingly, willfully, and with intent to defraud a person providing telephone or telegraph service, avoids or attempts to avoid, or aids,…
§ 502.8 (a) Any person who knowingly advertises illegal telecommunications equipment is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Any person who possesses or uses illegal…
§ 502.9 Upon conviction of a felony violation under this chapter, the fact that the victim was an elder or dependent person, as defined in Section 288, shall be…