CHAPTER 6. Embezzlement
Chapter 6 enacted 1872.
§§ 503–515 · 17 sections
- § 503 Embezzlement is the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted.
- § 504 Every officer of this state, or of any county, city, city and county, or other municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, and every deputy, clerk, or…
- § 504a Every person who shall fraudulently remove, conceal or dispose of any goods, chattels or effects, leased or let to him by any instrument in writing, or any…
- § 504b Where under the terms of a security agreement, as defined in paragraph (74) of subdivision (a) of Section 9102 of the Commercial Code, the debtor has the right…
- § 505 Every carrier or other person having under his control personal property for the purpose of transportation for hire, who fraudulently appropriates it to any…
- § 506 Every trustee, banker, merchant, broker, attorney, agent, assignee in trust, executor, administrator, or collector, or person otherwise intrusted with or…
- § 506a Any person who, acting as collector, or acting in any capacity in or about a business conducted for the collection of accounts or debts owing by another…
- § 506b Any person who violates Section 2985.3 or 2985.4 of the Civil Code, relating to real property sales contracts, is guilty of a public offense punishable by a…
- § 507 Every person intrusted with any property as bailee, tenant, or lodger, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, who fraudulently…
- § 508 Every clerk, agent, or servant of any person who fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use,…
- § 509 A distinct act of taking is not necessary to constitute embezzlement.
- § 510 Any evidence of debt, negotiable by delivery only, and actually executed, is the subject of embezzlement, whether it has been delivered or issued as a valid…
- § 511 Upon any indictment for embezzlement, it is a sufficient defense that the property was appropriated openly and avowedly, and under a claim of title preferred…
- § 512 The fact that the accused intended to restore the property embezzled, is no ground of defense or mitigation of punishment, if it has not been restored before…
- § 513 Whenever, prior to an information laid before a magistrate, or an indictment found by a grand jury, charging the commission of embezzlement, the person accused…
- § 514 Every person guilty of embezzlement is punishable in the manner prescribed for theft of property of the value or kind embezzled; and where the property…
- § 515 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…