California Laws: Penal Code Sections 2-24
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 2
This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock, noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. ...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 3
No part of it is retroactive, unless expressly so declared. ...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 4
The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code. All its provisions are to...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 5
The provisions of this Code, so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutes, must be construed as continuations thereof, and not as...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 6
No act or omission, commenced after twelve o'clock noon of the day on which this Code takes effect as a law, is criminal or punishable,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 7
Words used in this code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 7.5
Whenever any offense is described in this code, the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Health and Safety Code),...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 8
Whenever, by any of the provisions of this Code, an intent to defraud is required in order to constitute any offense, it is sufficient if...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 9
The omission to specify or affirm in this Code any liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy imposed by law and allowed to be...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 10
The omission to specify or affirm in this Code any ground of forfeiture of a public office, or other trust or special authority conferred by...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 11
This code does not affect any power conferred by law upon any court-martial, or other military authority or officer, to impose or inflict punishment upon...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 12
The several sections of this Code which declare certain crimes to be punishable as therein mentioned, devolve a duty upon the Court authorized to pass...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 13
Whenever in this Code the punishment for a crime is left undetermined between certain limits, the punishment to be inflicted in a particular case must...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 14
The various sections of this Code which declare that evidence obtained upon the examination of a person as a witness cannot be received against him...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 15
A crime or public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it, and to which is annexed,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 16
Crimes and public offenses include: 1. Felonies; 2. Misdemeanors; and 3. Infractions. ...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 17
(a) A felony is a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Every other crime or public offense is...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 18
Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by any law of this state, every offense declared to be a felony, or to be...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 19
Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by any law of this state, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 19.2
In no case shall any person sentenced to confinement in a county or city jail, or in a county or joint county penal farm, road...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 19.4
When an act or omission is declared by a statute to be a public offense and no penalty for the offense is prescribed in any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 19.6
An infraction is not punishable by imprisonment. A person charged with an infraction shall not be entitled to a trial by jury. A person charged...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 19.7
Except as otherwise provided by law, all provisions of law relating to misdemeanors shall apply to infractions including, but not limited to, powers of peace...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 19.8
The following offenses are subject to subdivision (d) of Section 17: Sections 193.8, 330, 415, 485, 490.7, 555, 652, and 853.7 of this code; subdivision...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 20
In every crime or public offense there must exist a union, or joint operation of act and intent, or criminal negligence. ...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 21
(a) The intent or intention is manifested by the circumstances connected with the offense. (b) In the guilt phase of a criminal action or a...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 21a
An attempt to commit a crime consists of two elements: a specific intent to commit the crime, and a direct but ineffectual act done toward...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 22
(a) No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his or her having been...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 23
In any criminal proceeding against a person who has been issued a license to engage in a business or profession by a state agency pursuant...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 24
This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended, may be designated simply as THE PENAL CODE, adding, when necessary, the number of the section....
