CHAPTER 5. Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature
Chapter 5 enacted 1872.
§§ 281–289.6 · 18 sections
- § 281 (a) Every person having a spouse living, who marries or enters into a registered domestic partnership with any other person, except in the cases specified in…
- § 282 Section 281 does not extend to any of the following: (a) To any person by reason of any former marriage or former registered domestic partnership whose spouse…
- § 283 Bigamy is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison.
- § 284 Every person who knowingly and willfully marries or enters into a registered domestic partnership with the spouse of another, in any case in which such spouse…
- § 285 Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry with each other, or who…
- § 286 (a) Sodomy is sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is…
- § 286.5 (a) Every person who has sexual contact with an animal is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) This section does not apply to any lawful and accepted practice related…
- § 287 (a) Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person. (b) (1) Except as provided in Section…
- § 288 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (i), a person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other…
- § 288.1 Any person convicted of committing any lewd or lascivious act including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1 of this code upon or…
- § 288.2 (a) (1) Every person who knows, should have known, or believes that another person is a minor, and who knowingly distributes, sends, causes to be sent,…
- § 288.3 (a) Every person who contacts or communicates with a minor, or attempts to contact or communicate with a minor, who knows or reasonably should know that the…
- § 288.4 (a) (1) Every person who, motivated by an unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in children, arranges a meeting with a minor or a person he or she believes to…
- § 288.5 (a) Any person who either resides in the same home with the minor child or has recurring access to the child, who over a period of time, not less than three…
- § 288.7 (a) Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and…
- § 289 (a) (1) (A) Any person who commits an act of sexual penetration when the act is accomplished against the victim’s will by means of force, violence, duress,…
- § 289.5 (a) Every person who flees to this state with the intent to avoid prosecution for an offense which, if committed or attempted in this state, would have been…
- § 289.6 (a) (1) An employee or officer of a public entity health facility, or an employee, officer, or agent of a private person or entity that provides a health…