"u.s.a"california penal code
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TITLE OF THE ACT
1. This Act shall be known as THE PENAL CODE OF CALIFORNIA, and is
divided into four parts, as follows:
I.--OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
II.--OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
III.--OF THE STATE PRISON AND COUNTY JAILS.
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Of persons liable to punishment for crime
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25. (a) The defense of diminished capacity is hereby abolished. In
a criminal action, as well as any juvenile court proceeding,
evidence concerning an accused person's intoxication, trauma, mental
illness, disease, or defect shall not be admissible to show or negate
capacity to form the particular purpose, intent, motive, malice
aforethought, knowledge, or other mental state required for the
commission of the crime charged.
(b) In any criminal proceeding, including any juvenile court
proceeding, in which a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is
entered, this defense shall be found by the trier of fact only when
the accused person proves by a preponderance of the evidence that he
or she was incapable of knowing or understanding the nature and
quality of his or her act and of distinguishing right from wrong at
the time of the commission of the offense.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, evidence of diminished capacity
or of a mental disorder may be considered by the court only at the
time of sentencing or other disposition or commitment.
(d) The provisions of this section shall not be amended by the
Legislature except by statute passed in each house by rollcall vote
entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring, or
by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the
electors.
25.5. In any criminal proceeding in which a plea of not guilty by
reason of insanity is entered, this defense shall not be found by the
trier of fact solely on the basis of a personality or adjustment
disorder, a seizure disorder, or an addiction to, or abuse of,
intoxicating substances. This section shall apply only to persons
who utilize this defense on or after the operative date of the
section.
26. All persons are capable of committing crimes except those
belonging to the following classes:
One--Children under the age of 14, in the absence of clear proof
that at the time of committing the act charged against them, they
knew its wrongfulness.
Two--Persons who are mentally incapacitated.
Three--Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged
under an ignorance or mistake of fact, which disproves any criminal
intent.
Four--Persons who committed the act charged without being
conscious thereof.
Five--Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged
through misfortune or by accident, when it appears that there was no
evil design, intention, or culpable negligence.
Six--Persons (unless the crime be punishable with death) who
committed the act or made the omission charged under threats or
menaces sufficient to show that they had reasonable cause to and did
believe their lives would be endangered if they refused.
27. (a) The following persons are liable to punishment under the
laws of this state:
(1) All persons who commit, in whole or in part, any crime within
this state.
(2) All who commit any offense without this state which, if
committed within this state, would be larceny, carjacking, robbery,
or embezzlement under the laws of this state, and bring the property
stolen or embezzled, or any part of it, or are found with it, or any
part of it, within this state.
(3) All who, being without this state, cause or aid, advise or
encourage, another person to commit a crime within this state, and
are afterwards found therein.
(b) Perjury, in violation of Section 118, is punishable also when
committed outside of California to the extent provided in Section
118.
28. (a) Evidence of mental disease, mental defect, or mental
disorder shall not be admitted to show or negate the capacity to form
any mental state, including, but not limited to, purpose, intent,
knowledge, premeditation, deliberation, or malice aforethought, with
which the accused committed the act. Evidence of mental disease,
mental defect, or mental disorder is admissible solely on the issue
of whether or not the accused actually formed a required specific
intent, premeditated, deliberated, or harbored malice aforethought,
when a specific intent crime is charged.
(b) As a matter of public policy there shall be no defense of
diminished capacity, diminished responsibility, or irresistible
impulse in a criminal action or juvenile adjudication hearing.
(c) This section shall not be applicable to an insanity hearing
pursuant to Section 1026.
(d) Nothing in this section shall limit a court's discretion,
pursuant to the Evidence Code, to exclude psychiatric or
psychological evidence on whether the accused had a mental disease,
mental defect, or mental disorder at the time of the alleged offense.
29. In the guilt phase of a criminal action, any expert testifying
about a defendant's mental illness, mental disorder, or mental defect
shall not testify as to whether the defendant had or did not have
the required mental states, which include, but are not limited to,
purpose, intent, knowledge, or malice aforethought, for the crimes
charged. The question as to whether the defendant had or did not
have the required mental states shall be decided by the trier of
fact.
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Of offenses against the sovereignty of the state
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. (a) Treason against this state consists only in levying war
against it, adhering to its enemies, or giving them aid and comfort,
and can be committed only by persons owing allegiance to the state.
The punishment of treason shall be death or life imprisonment without
possibility of parole. The penalty shall be determined pursuant to
Sections 190.3 and 190.4.
(b) Upon a trial for treason, the defendant cannot be convicted
unless upon the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or
upon confession in open court; nor, except as provided in Sections
190.3 and 190.4, can evidence be admitted of an overt act not
expressly charged in the indictment or information; nor can the
defendant be convicted unless one or more overt acts be expressly
alleged therein.
38. Misprision of treason is the knowledge and concealment of
treason, without otherwise assenting to or participating in the
crime. It is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison.
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Of crimes by and against the executive power of the state
[align=left]67. Every person who gives or offers any bribe to any executive
officer in this state, with intent to influence him in respect to any
act, decision, vote, opinion, or other proceeding as such officer,
is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or
four years, and is disqualified from holding any office in this
state.
67.5. (a) Every person who gives or offers as a bribe to any
ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of
California, county or city therein, or political subdivision thereof,
any thing the theft of which would be petty theft is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
(b) If the theft of the thing given or offered would be grand
theft the offense is a felony.
68. (a) Every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or
appointee of the State of California, a county or city therein, or a
political subdivision thereof, who asks, receives, or agrees to
receive, any bribe, upon any agreement or understanding that his or
her vote, opinion, or action upon any matter then pending, or that
may be brought before him or her in his or her official capacity,
shall be influenced thereby, is punishable by imprisonment in the
state prison for two, three, or four years and, in cases in which no
bribe has been actually received, by a restitution fine of not less
than two thousand dollars ($2,000) or not more than ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) or, in cases in which a bribe was actually
received, by a restitution fine of at least the actual amount of the
bribe received or two thousand dollars ($2,000), whichever is
greater, or any larger amount of not more than double the amount of
any bribe received or ten thousand dollars ($10,000), whichever is
greater, and, in addition thereto, forfeits his or her office,
employment, or appointment, and is forever disqualified from holding
any office, employment, or appointment, in this state.
(b) In imposing a restitution fine pursuant to this section, the
court shall consider the defendant's ability to pay the fine.
69. Every person who attempts, by means of any threat or violence,
to deter or prevent an executive officer from performing any duty
imposed upon such officer by law, or who knowingly resists, by the
use of force or violence, such officer, in the performance of his
duty, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars
($10,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county
jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
70. (a) Every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or
appointee of the State of California, or any county or city therein,
or any political subdivision thereof, who knowingly asks, receives,
or agrees to receive any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any
promise thereof excepting such as may be authorized by law for doing
an official act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) This section does not prohibit deputy registrars of voters
from receiving compensation when authorized by local ordinance from
any candidate, political committee, or statewide political
organization for securing the registration of voters.
(c) (1) Nothing in this section precludes a peace officer, as
defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of
Part 2, from engaging in, or being employed in, casual or part-time
employment as a private security guard or patrolman for a public
entity while off duty from his or her principal employment and
outside his or her regular employment as a peace officer of a state
or local agency, and exercising the powers of a peace officer
concurrently with that employment, provided that the peace officer is
in a police uniform and is subject to reasonable rules and
regulations of the agency for which he or she is a peace officer.
Notwithstanding the above provisions, any and all civil and criminal
liability arising out of the secondary employment of any peace
officer pursuant to this subdivision shall be borne by the officer's
secondary employer.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature by this subdivision to
abrogate the holdings in People v. Corey, 21 Cal.3d 738, and
Cervantez v. J.C. Penney Co., 24 Cal.3d 579, to reinstate prior
judicial interpretations of this section as they relate to criminal
sanctions for battery on peace officers who are employed, on a
part-time or casual basis, by a public entity, while wearing a police
uniform as private security guards or patrolmen, and to allow the
exercise of peace officer powers concurrently with that employment.
(d) (1) Nothing in this section precludes a peace officer, as
defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of
Part 2, from engaging in, or being employed in, casual or part-time
employment as a private security guard or patrolman by a private
employer while off duty from his or her principal employment and
outside his or her regular employment as a peace officer, and
exercising the powers of a peace officer concurrently with that
employment, provided that all of the following are true:
(A) The peace officer is in his or her police uniform.
(B) The casual or part-time employment as a private security guard
or patrolman is approved by the county board of supervisors with
jurisdiction over the principal employer or by the board's designee
or by the city council with jurisdiction over the principal employer
or by the council's designee.
(C) The wearing of uniforms and equipment is approved by the
principal employer.
(D) The peace officer is subject to reasonable rules and
regulations of the agency for which he or she is a peace officer.
(2) Notwithstanding the above provisions, a peace officer while
off duty from his or her principal employment and outside his or her
regular employment as a peace officer of a state or local agency
shall not exercise the powers of a police officer if employed by a
private employer as a security guard during a strike, lockout,
picketing, or other physical demonstration of a labor dispute at the
site of the strike, lockout, picketing, or other physical
demonstration of a labor dispute. The issue of whether or not casual
or part-time employment as a private security guard or patrolman
pursuant to this subdivision is to be approved shall not be a subject
for collective bargaining. Any and all civil and criminal liability
arising out of the secondary employment of any peace officer
pursuant to this subdivision shall be borne by the officer's
principal employer. The principal employer shall require the
secondary employer to enter into an indemnity agreement as a
condition of approving casual or part-time employment pursuant to
this subdivision.
(3) It is the intent of the Legislature by this subdivision to
abrogate the holdings in People v. Corey, 21 Cal. 3d 738, and
Cervantez v. J. C. Penney Co., 24 Cal. 3d 579, to reinstate prior
judicial interpretations of this section as they relate to criminal
sanctions for battery on peace officers who are employed, on a
part-time or casual basis, while wearing a police uniform approved by
the principal employer, as private security guards or patrolmen, and
to allow the exercise of peace officer powers concurrently with that
employment.
(e) (1) Nothing in this section precludes a peace officer, as
defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of
Part 2, from engaging in, or being employed in, other employment
while off duty from his or her principal employment and outside his
or her regular employment as a peace officer of a state or local
agency.
(2) Subject to subdivisions (c) and (d), and except as provided by
written regulations or policies adopted by the employing state or
local agency, or pursuant to an agreement between the employing state
or local agency and a recognized employee organization representing
the peace officer, no peace officer shall be prohibited from engaging
in, or being employed in, other employment while off duty from his
or her principal employment and outside his or her regular employment
as a peace officer of a state or local agency.
(3) If an employer withholds consent to allow a peace officer to
engage in or be employed in other employment while off duty, the
employer shall, at the time of denial, provide the reasons for denial
in writing to the peace officer.
70.5. Every commissioner of civil marriages or every deputy
commissioner of civil marriages who accepts any money or other thing
of value for performing any marriage pursuant to Section 401 of the
Family Code, including any money or thing of value voluntarily
tendered by the persons about to be married or who have been married
by the commissioner of civil marriages or deputy commissioner of
civil marriages, other than a fee expressly imposed by law for
performance of a marriage, whether the acceptance occurs before or
after performance of the marriage and whether or not performance of
the marriage is conditioned on the giving of such money or the thing
of value by the persons being married, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
It is not a necessary element of the offense described by this
section that the acceptance of the money or other thing of value be
committed with intent to commit extortion or with other criminal
intent.
This section does not apply to the request or acceptance by any
retired commissioner of civil marriages of a fee for the performance
of a marriage.
This section is inapplicable to the acceptance of a fee for the
performance of a marriage on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday.
71. Every person who, with intent to cause, attempts to cause, or
causes, any officer or employee of any public or private educational
institution or any public officer or employee to do, or refrain from
doing, any act in the performance of his duties, by means of a
threat, directly communicated to such person, to inflict an unlawful
injury upon any person or property, and it reasonably appears to the
recipient of the threat that such threat could be carried out, is
guilty of a public offense punishable as follows:
(1) Upon a first conviction, such person is punishable by a fine
not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in
the state prison, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) If such person has been previously convicted of a violation of
this section, such previous conviction shall be charged in the
accusatory pleading, and if such previous conviction is found to be
true by the jury, upon a jury trial, or by the court, upon a court
trial, or is admitted by the defendant, he is punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison.
As used in this section, "directly communicated" includes, but is
not limited to, a communication to the recipient of the threat by
telephone, telegraph, or letter.
72. Every person who, with intent to defraud, presents for
allowance or for payment to any state board or officer, or to any
county, city, or district board or officer, authorized to allow or
pay the same if genuine, any false or fraudulent claim, bill,
account, voucher, or writing, is punishable either by imprisonment in
the county jail for a period of not more than one year, by a fine of
not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such
imprisonment and fine, or by imprisonment in the state prison, by a
fine of not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both such
imprisonment and fine.
As used in this section "officer" includes a "carrier," as defined
in subdivision (a) of Section 14124.70 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, authorized to act as an agent for a state board or
officer or a county, city, or district board or officer, as the case
may be.
72.5. (a) Every person who, knowing a claim seeks public funds for
reimbursement of costs incurred in attending a political function
organized to support or oppose any political party or political
candidate, presents such a claim for allowance or for payment to any
state board or officer, or to any county, city, or district board or
officer authorized to allow or pay such claims, is punishable either
by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one
year, by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by
both such imprisonment and fine, or by imprisonment in the state
prison, by a fine of not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or
by both such imprisonment and fine.
(b) Every person who, knowing a claim seeks public funds for
reimbursement of costs incurred to gain admittance to a political
function expressly organized to support or oppose any ballot measure,
presents such a claim for allowance or for payment to any state
board or officer, or to any county, city, or district board or
officer authorized to allow or pay such claims is punishable either
by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one
year, by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by
both such imprisonment and fine, or by imprisonment in the state
prison, by a fine of not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or
by both such imprisonment and fine.
73. Every person who gives or offers any gratuity or reward, in
consideration that he or any other person shall be appointed to any
public office, or shall be permitted to exercise or discharge the
duties thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
74. Every public officer who, for any gratuity or reward, appoints
another person to a public office, or permits another person to
exercise or discharge any of the duties of his office, is punishable
by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and, in
addition thereto, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified
from holding any office in this state.
76. (a) Every person who knowingly and willingly threatens the life
of, or threatens serious bodily harm to, any elected public
official, county public defender, county clerk, exempt appointee of
the Governor, judge, or Deputy Commissioner of the Board of Prison
Terms, or the staff, immediate family, or immediate family of the
staff of any elected public official, county public defender, county
clerk, exempt appointee of the Governor, judge, or Deputy
Commissioner of the Board of Prison Terms, with the specific intent
that the statement is to be taken as a threat, and the apparent
ability to carry out that threat by any means, is guilty of a public
offense, punishable as follows:
(1) Upon a first conviction, the offense is punishable by a fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in
the state prison, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by
both that fine and imprisonment.
(2) If the person has been convicted previously of violating this
section, the previous conviction shall be charged in the accusatory
pleading, and if the previous conviction is found to be true by the
jury upon a jury trial, or by the court upon a court trial, or is
admitted by the defendant, the offense is punishable by imprisonment
in the state prison.
(b) Any law enforcement agency that has knowledge of a violation
of this section involving a constitutional officer of the state, a
Member of the Legislature, or a member of the judiciary shall
immediately report that information to the Department of the
California Highway Patrol.
(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall
apply:
(1) "Apparent ability to carry out that threat" includes the
ability to fulfill the threat at some future date when the person
making the threat is an incarcerated prisoner with a stated release
date.
(2) "Serious bodily harm" includes serious physical injury or
serious traumatic condition.
(3) "Immediate family" means a spouse, parent, or child, or anyone
who has regularly resided in the household for the past six months.
(4) "Staff of a judge" means court officers and employees,
including commissioners, referees, and retired judges sitting on
assignment.
(5) "Threat" means a verbal or written threat or a threat implied
by a pattern of conduct or a combination of verbal or written
statements and conduct made with the intent and the apparent ability
to carry out the threat so as to cause the person who is the target
of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety
of his or her immediate family.
(d) As for threats against staff or immediate family of staff, the
threat must relate directly to the official duties of the staff of
the elected public official, county public defender, county clerk,
exempt appointee of the Governor, judge, or Deputy Commissioner of
the Board of Prison Terms in order to constitute a public offense
under this section.
(e) A threat must relate directly to the official duties of a
Deputy Commissioner of the Board of Prison Terms in order to
constitute a public offense under this section.
77. The various provisions of this title, except Section 76, apply
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85. Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any Member
of the Legislature, any member of the legislative body of a city,
county, city and county, school district, or other special district,
or to another person for the member, or attempts by menace, deceit,
suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to influence a member in
giving or withholding his or her vote, or in not attending the house
or any committee of which he or she is a member, is punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.
86. Every Member of either house of the Legislature, or any member
of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school
district, or other special district, who asks, receives, or agrees to
receive, any bribe, upon any understanding that his or her official
vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or
shall give, in any particular manner, or upon any particular side of
any question or matter upon which he or she may be required to act in
his or her official capacity, or gives, or offers or promises to
give, any official vote in consideration that another Member of the
Legislature, or another member of the legislative body of a city,
county, city and county, school district, or other special district
shall give this vote either upon the same or another question, is
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or
four years and, in cases in which no bribe has been actually
received, by a restitution fine of not less than two thousand dollars
($2,000) or not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or, in
cases in which a bribe was actually received, by a restitution fine
of at least the actual amount of the bribe received or two thousand
dollars ($2,000), whichever is greater, or any larger amount of not
more than double the amount of any bribe received or ten thousand
dollars ($10,000), whichever is greater.
In imposing a fine under this section, the court shall consider
the defendant's ability to pay the fine.
88. Every Member of the Legislature, and every member of a
legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district,
or other special district convicted of any crime defined in this
title, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his or her
office and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this
state or a political subdivision thereof.
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Of crimes against public justice
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BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
92. Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any
judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, or to any
person who may be authorized by law to hear or determine any question
or controversy, with intent to influence his vote, opinion, or
decision upon any matter or question which is or may be brought
before him for decision, is punishable by imprisonment in the state
prison for two, three or four years.
93. (a) Every judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or
umpire, and every person authorized by law to hear or determine any
question or controversy, who asks, receives, or agrees to receive,
any bribe, upon any agreement or understanding that his or her vote,
opinion, or decision upon any matters or question which is or may be
brought before him or her for decision, shall be influenced thereby,
is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or
four years and, in cases where no bribe has been actually received,
by a restitution fine of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000)
or not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or, in cases where a
bribe was actually received, by a restitution fine of at least the
actual amount of the bribe received or two thousand dollars ($2,000),
whichever is greater, or any larger amount of not more than double
the amount of any bribe received or ten thousand dollars ($10,000),
whichever is greater.
(b) In imposing a restitution fine under this section, the court
shall consider the defendant's ability to pay the fine.
94. Every judicial officer who asks or receives any emolument,
gratuity, or reward, or any promise thereof, except such as may be
authorized by law, for doing any official act, is guilty of a
misdemeanor. The lawful compensation of a temporary judge shall be
prescribed by Judicial Council rule. Every judicial officer who
shall ask or receive the whole or any part of the fees allowed by law
to any stenographer or reporter appointed by him or her, or any
other person, to record the proceedings of any court or investigation
held by him or her, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall forfeit his or her office. Any stenographer
or reporter, appointed by any judicial officer in this state, who
shall pay, or offer to pay, the whole or any part of the fees allowed
him or her by law, for his or her appointment or retention in
office, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be forever disqualified from holding any similar office in the
courts of this state.
94.5. Every judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant commissioner
of a court of this state who accepts any money or other thing of
value for performing any marriage, including any money or thing of
value voluntarily tendered by the persons about to be married or who
have been married by such judge, justice, commissioner, or assistant
commissioner, whether the acceptance occurs before or after
performance of the marriage and whether or not performance of the
marriage is conditioned on the giving of such money or the thing of
value by the persons being married, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
It is not a necessary element of the offense described by this
section that the acceptance of the money or other thing of value be
committed with intent to commit extortion or with other criminal
intent.
This section does not apply to the request for or acceptance of a
fee expressly imposed by law for performance of a marriage or to the
request or acceptance by any retired judge, retired justice, or
retired commissioner of a fee for the performance of a marriage. For
the purposes of this section, a retired judge or retired justice
sitting on assignment in court shall not be deemed to be a retired
judge or retired justice.
This section does not apply to an acceptance of a fee for
performing a marriage on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday.
95. Every person who corruptly attempts to influence a juror, or
any person summoned or drawn as a juror, or chosen as an arbitrator
or umpire, or appointed a referee, in respect to his or her verdict
in, or decision of, any cause or proceeding, pending, or about to be
brought before him or her, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten
thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison,
if it is by means of any of the following:
(a) Any oral or written communication with him or her except in
the regular course of proceedings.
(b) Any book, paper, or instrument exhibited, otherwise than in
the regular course of proceedings.
(c) Any threat, intimidation, persuasion, or entreaty.
(d) Any promise, or assurance of any pecuniary or other advantage.
95.1. Every person who threatens a juror with respect to a criminal
proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who has the
intent and apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to cause
the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or
the safety of his or her immediate family, is guilty of a public
offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for
not more than one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison, or by
a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that
imprisonment and fine.
95.2. Any person who, with knowledge of the relationship of the
parties and without court authorization and juror consent,
intentionally provides a defendant or former defendant to any
criminal proceeding information from records sealed by the court
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 237 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, knowing that the records have been sealed, in order to
locate or communicate with a juror to that proceeding and that
information is used to violate Section 95 or 95.1, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor. Except as otherwise provided by any other law or
court order limiting communication with a juror after a verdict has
been reached, compliance with Section 206 of the Code of Civil
Procedure shall constitute court authorization.
95.3. Any person licensed pursuant to Chapter 11.5 (commencing with
Section 7512) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code
who, with knowledge of the relationship of the parties and without
court authorization and juror consent, knowingly provides a defendant
or former defendant to any criminal proceeding information in order
to locate or communicate with a juror to that proceeding is guilty of
a misdemeanor. Conviction under this section shall be a basis for
revocation or suspension of any license issued pursuant to Section
7561.1 of the Business and Professions Code. Except as otherwise
provided by any law or court order limiting communication with a
juror after a verdict has been reached, compliance with Section 206
of the Code of Civil Procedure shall constitute court authorization.
96. Every juror, or person drawn or summoned as a juror, or chosen
arbitrator or umpire, or appointed referee, who either: One--Makes
any promise or agreement to give a verdict or decision for or
against any party; or, Two--Willfully and corruptly permits any
communication to be made to him, or receives any book, paper,
instrument, or information relating to any cause or matter pending
before him, except according to the regular course of proceedings, is
punishable by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or
by imprisonment in the state prison.
96.5. (a) Every judicial officer, court commissioner, or referee
who commits any act that he or she knows perverts or obstructs
justice, is guilty of a public offense punishable by imprisonment in
a county jail for not more than one year.
(b) Nothing in this section prohibits prosecution under paragraph
(5) of subdivision (a) of Section 182 of the Penal Code or any other
law.
98. Every officer convicted of any crime defined in this Chapter,
in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is
forever disqualified from holding any office in this State.
99. The Superintendent of State Printing shall not, during his
continuance in office, have any interest, either directly or
indirectly, in any contract in any way connected with his office as
Superintendent of State Printing; nor shall he, during said period,
be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any state printing,
binding, engraving, lithographing, or other state work of any kind
connected with his said office; nor shall he, directly or indirectly,
be interested in any contract for furnishing paper, or other
printing stock or material, to or for use in his said office; and any
violations of these provisions shall subject him, on conviction
before a court of competent jurisdiction, to imprisonment in the
state prison and to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars
($1,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
100. If the Superintendent of State Printing corruptly colludes
with any person or persons furnishing paper or materials, or bidding
therefor, or with any other person or persons, or has any secret
understanding with him or them, by himself or through others, to
defraud the state, or by which the state is defrauded or made to
sustain a loss, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this
chapter, he, upon conviction thereof, forfeits his office, and is
subject to imprisonment in the state prison, and to a fine of not
less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than ten thousand
dollars ($10,000), or both such fine and imprisonment.
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Escapes and aiding therein
[align=left]107. Every prisoner charged with or convicted of a felony who is an
inmate of any public training school or reformatory or county
hospital who escapes or attempts to escape from such public training
school or reformatory or county hospital is guilty of a felony and is
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or by a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
109. Any person who willfully assists any inmate of any public
training school or reformatory to escape, or in an attempt to escape
from such public training school or reformatory is punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison, and fine not exceeding ten thousand
dollars ($10,000).
110. Every person who carries or sends into a public training
school, or reformatory, anything useful to aid a prisoner or inmate
in making his escape, with intent thereby to facilitate the escape of
any prisoner or inmate confined therein, is guilty of a felony.[/align]