CHAPTER 7. Other Offenses Against Public Justice

Chapter 7 enacted 1872.

§§ 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…