California Laws: Penal Code Sections 594-625c
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594
(a) Every person who maliciously commits any of the following acts with respect to any real or personal property not his or her own, in...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.1
(a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, except a parent or legal guardian, to sell or give or in any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.2
(a) Every person who possesses a masonry or glass drill bit, a carbide drill bit, a glass cutter, a grinding stone, an awl, a chisel,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.3
(a) Any person who knowingly commits any act of vandalism to a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, building owned and occupied by a religious educational institution,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.35
Every person is guilty of a crime and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or by imprisonment in a county jail for not exceeding...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.4
(a) Any person who willfully and maliciously injects into or throws upon, or otherwise defaces, damages, destroys, or contaminates, any structure with butyric acid, or...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.5
Nothing in this code shall invalidate an ordinance of, nor be construed to prohibit the adoption of an ordinance by, a city, city and county,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.6
(a) Every person who, having been convicted of vandalism or affixing graffiti or other inscribed material under Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, or 640.7, or any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.7
Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 594, every person who, having been convicted previously of vandalism under Section 594 for maliciously defacing with graffiti or other...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 594.8
(a) Any person convicted of possession of a destructive implement with intent to commit graffiti or willfully affixing graffiti under Section 594.2, 640.5, 640.6, or...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 595
The specification of the Acts enumerated in the following sections of this Chapter is not intended to restrict or qualify the interpretation of the preceding...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 596
Every person who, without the consent of the owner, wilfully administers poison to any animal, the property of another, or exposes any poisonous substance, with...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 596.5
It shall be a misdemeanor for any owner or manager of an elephant to engage in abusive behavior towards the elephant, which behavior shall include...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 596.7
(a) For purposes of this section, "rodeo" means a public performance featuring competition between persons, which includes four or more of the following events: bareback...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section or Section 599c, every person who maliciously and intentionally maims, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597.1
(a) Every owner, driver, or keeper of any animal who permits the animal to be in any building, enclosure, lane, street, square, or lot of...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597.2
(a) It shall be the duty of an officer of a pound, humane society, or animal regulation department of a public agency to assist in...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597.3
(a) Every person who operates a live animal market shall do all of the following: (1) Provide that no animal will be dismembered, flayed, cut...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597.5
(a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a felony and is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597.6
(a) (1) No person may perform, or otherwise procure or arrange for the performance of, surgical claw removal, declawing, onychectomy, or tendonectomy on any cat...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597.7
(a) No person shall leave or confine an animal in any unattended motor vehicle under conditions that endanger the health or well-being of an animal...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597a
Whoever carries or causes to be carried in or upon any vehicle or otherwise any domestic animal in a cruel or inhuman manner, or knowingly...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597b
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), any person who, for amusement or gain, causes any bull, bear, or other animal, not including...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597c
Any person who is knowingly present as a spectator at any place, building, or tenement for an exhibition of animal fighting, or who is knowingly...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597d
Any sheriff, police, or peace officer, or officer qualified as provided in Section 14502 of the Corporations Code, may enter any place, building, or tenement,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597e
Any person who impounds, or causes to be impounded in any pound, any domestic animal, shall supply it during such confinement with a sufficient quantity...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597f
(a) Every owner, driver, or possessor of any animal, who permits the animal to be in any building, enclosure, lane, street, square, or lot, of...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597g
(a) Poling a horse is a method of training horses to jump which consists of (1) forcing, persuading, or enticing a horse to jump in...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597h
It shall be unlawful for any person to tie or attach or fasten any live animal to any machine or device propelled by any power...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597i
(a) It shall be unlawful for anyone to manufacture, buy, sell, barter, exchange, or have in his or her possession any of the implements commonly...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597j
(a) Any person who owns, possesses, keeps, or trains any bird or other animal with the intent that it be used or engaged by himself...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597k
Anyone who, having care, custody or control of any horse or other animal, uses what is known as the bristle bur, tack bur, or other...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597l
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who operates a pet shop to fail to do all of the following: (1) Maintain the facilities...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597m
It shall be unlawful for any person to promote, advertise, stage, hold, manage, conduct, participate in, engage in, or carry on any bullfight exhibition, any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597n
Any person who cuts the solid part of the tail of any horse in the operation known as "docking," or in any other operation performed...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597o
(a) Any person who transports an equine in a vehicle to slaughter shall meet the following requirements: (1) The vehicle shall have sufficient clearance to...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597p
Within 30 days after the passage of this act, every owner, or user of any docked horse, within the State of California, shall register his...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597q
The driving, working, keeping, racing or using of any unregistered docked horse, or horses, after 60 days after the passage of this act, shall be...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597r
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that the provisions of...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597s
(a) Every person who willfully abandons any animal is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) This section shall not apply to the release or rehabilitation and...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597t
Every person who keeps an animal confined in an enclosed area shall provide it with an adequate exercise area. If the animal is restricted by...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597u
(a) No person, peace officer, officer of a humane society, or officer of a pound or animal regulation department of a public agency shall kill...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597v
No person, peace officer, officer of a humane society, or officer of a pound or animal regulation department of a public agency shall kill any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597x
(a) Notwithstanding Section 18734 of the Food and Agricultural Code or any other provision of law, it is unlawful for any person to sell, attempt...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597y
A violation of Section 597u, 597v, or 597w is a misdemeanor. ...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 597z
(a) (1) Except as otherwise authorized under any other provision of law, it shall be a crime, punishable as specified in subdivision (b), for any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 598
Every person who, within any public cemetery or burying ground, kills, wounds, or traps any bird, or destroys any bird's nest other than swallows' nests,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 598a
(a) Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who kills any dog or cat with the sole intent of selling or giving away the pelt...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 598b
(a) Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who possesses, imports into, or exports from, this state, sells, buys, gives away, or accepts any carcass...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 598c
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it is unlawful for any person to possess, to import into or export from the state, or to...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 598d
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, horsemeat may not be offered for sale for human consumption. No restaurant, cafe, or other public eating place...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599
Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Sells or gives away, any live chicks, rabbits, ducklings, or other fowl as a prize for,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599a
When complaint is made, on oath, to any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that the complainant believes that any provision of law...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599b
In this title, the word "animal" includes every dumb creature; the words "torment," "torture," and "cruelty" include every act, omission, or neglect whereby unnecessary or...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599c
No part of this title shall be construed as interfering with any of the laws of this state known as the "game laws," or any...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599d
(a) It is the policy of the state that no adoptable animal should be euthanized if it can be adopted into a suitable home. Adoptable...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599e
Every animal which is unfit, by reason of its physical condition, for the purpose for which such animals are usually employed, and when there is...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 599f
(a) No slaughterhouse that is not inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture, stockyard, or auction shall buy, sell, or receive a nonambulatory animal....
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 600
(a) Any person who willfully and maliciously and with no legal justification strikes, beats, kicks, cuts, stabs, shoots with a firearm, administers any poison or...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 600.2
(a) It is a crime for any person to permit any dog which is owned, harbored, or controlled by him or her to cause injury...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 600.5
(a) Any person who intentionally causes injury to or the death of any guide, signal, or service dog, as defined by Section 54.1 of the...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 601
(a) Any person is guilty of trespass who makes a credible threat to cause serious bodily injury, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 417.6,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602
Except as provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (v), subdivision (x), and Section 602.8, every person who willfully commits a trespass by any of the...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.1
(a) Any person who intentionally interferes with any lawful business or occupation carried on by the owner or agent of a business establishment open to...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.2
Any ordinance or resolution adopted by a county which requires written permission to enter vacant or unimproved private land from either the owner, the owner's...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.3
(a) A lodger who is subject to Section 1946.5 of the Civil Code and who remains on the premises of an owner-occupied dwelling unit after...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.4
Every person who enters or remains on airport property owned by a city, county, or city and county but located in another county, and sells,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.5
(a) Every person other than a public officer or employee acting within the course and scope of his or her employment in performance of a...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.6
Every person who enters or remains in, or upon, any state, county, district, or citrus fruit fair buildings or grounds, when the buildings or grounds...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.7
Every person who enters or remains on any property, facility, or vehicle owned by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District or the Southern...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.8
(a) Any person who without the written permission of the landowner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of the land, willfully enters...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.9
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person who, without the owner's or owner's agent's consent, claims ownership or claims or takes possession of...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.10
Every person who, by physical force and with the intent to prevent attendance or instruction, willfully obstructs or attempts to obstruct any student or teacher...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 602.11
(a) Any person, alone or in concert with others, who intentionally prevents an individual from entering or exiting a health care facility, place of worship,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 603
Every person other than a peace officer engaged in the performance of his duties as such who forcibly and without the consent of the owner,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 604
Every person who maliciously injures or destroys any standing crops, grain, cultivated fruits or vegetables, the property of another, in any case for which a...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 605
Every person who either: 1. Maliciously removes any monument erected for the purpose of designating any point in the boundary of any lot or tract...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 607
Every person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures, or destroys, or who, without the authority of the owner or managing agent, operates any gate...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 610
Every person who unlawfully masks, alters, or removes any light or signal, or willfully exhibits any light or signal, with intent to bring any vessel...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 615
Every person who willfully injures, defaces, or removes any signal, monument, building, or appurtenance thereto, placed, erected, or used by persons engaged in the United...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 616
Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, tears down, or destroys any copy or transcript, or extract from or of any law of the United States...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 617
Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates, or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 618
Every person who willfully opens or reads, or causes to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do,...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 620
Every person who willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic or telephonic message to the injury of another, is punishable by imprisonment...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 621
Every person who maliciously destroys, cuts, breaks, mutilates, effaces, or otherwise injures, tears down, or removes any law enforcement memorial or firefighter's memorial is guilty...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 622
Every person, not the owner thereof, who willfully injures, disfigures, or destroys any monument, work of art, or useful or ornamental improvement within the limits...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 623
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 599c, any person who, without the prior written permission of the owner of a cave, intentionally and knowingly...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 624
Every person who wilfully breaks, digs up, obstructs, or injures any pipe or main for conducting water, or any works erected for supplying buildings with...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 625
Every person who, with intent to defraud or injure, opens or causes to be opened, or draws water from any stopcock or faucet by which...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 625b
(a) Every person who willfully injures or tampers with any aircraft or the contents or parts thereof, or removes any part of or from an...
- California Laws: Penal Code Section 625c
Any person who, with the intent to cause great bodily injury to another person, willfully removes, tampers with, injures or destroys any passenger transit vehicle...
