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Vandalism
Every person who:
-with malicious intent
-defaces, damages, destroys,
-personal or real property
-not their own.
Classification: Felony (damages over $400)
Misdemeaner (damage $400 or under) |
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Embezzlement
-Fraudulent appropriation
-of property
-by a person
-to whom it has been trusted.
Classification: Felony ($400 and over)
Misdemeanor ($400 and under) |
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Unauthorized entry of dwelling
-any person, other than a public officer or employee acting with in the scope of their employment,
-who enters or remains
-in a noncommercial dwelling house, apartment, or other such place
-without consent of the owner, owner's agent, or person in lawful possession.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Prohibited Location
Any person who:
-possesses certain specified weapons
-other than firearms
-upon the grounds of or within any:
-public school; univerity or college campus
Classification: Felony |
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Petty theft
-the taking and
-carrying away of (assportation)
-personal property of another
-without consent of the owner, and
-with the intent to permantely deprive the owner.
Classification: Misdemeanor ($400 and under) |
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Discharging a firearm at an inhabited or occupied dwelling: vehicle; aircraft
Any person who:
-maliciously and willfully
-discharges a firearm at an:
-inhabited dwelling
-occupied building
-occupied motor vehicle
-occupied aircraft
-inhabited housecar or camper.
Classification: Felony |
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Carrying a loaded firearm
Any person who:
-carries a loaded firearm
-on one's person or
-in a vehicle
-in:
-a public place, or
-on any public street in an incorporated city.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Drawing, Exhibiting or Unlawful use if a deadly weapon
Any person who:
-except in self-defense,
-in the presence of any other person,
-draws or exhibits any deadly weapon in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, or
-unlawfully uses a deadly weapon in a fight or quarrel.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Defrauding and innkeeper
-The obtaining of
-food, fuel, services, or accommodations
-at a designated facility without paying
-with the intent to defraud the proprietor or manager.
Classification: Felon ($400 and over)
Misdemeanor ($400 and under) |
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Prohibited location
Any person who:
-carries a loaded firearm, or
-carries concealed a loaded or unloaded firearm capable of being concealed, or
-draws or exhibits a firearm in a threatening mannor or in a fight,
-upon the grounds of or within the playground, or youth center during hours of operation.
Classification: Felony |
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Temporary Seizure of firearms
Any Peace Officer who is at the scene of a domestic violence incident involving a threat to human life or a physical assault, shall take temporary custody of any firearm or other deadly weapon in plain sight or discoverd pursuant to a consensual or other lawful search as necessary for the protection of the Peace Officer or other persons present. |
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Altered serial number/ id marks
Every person who:
-knowingly buys, sells,receives, disposes, conseals or
-has in his or her possession any personal property
-from which specified numbers have been
-removed, defaced, covered, altered, destroyed.
Classification: Misdemeaner
Felony (computer chip worth $400 or more) |
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Theft Definded
-The taking and
-carring away of (asportation)
-personal property of another
-without consent of the owner, and
-with the intent to permanently deprive the owner. |
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Insufficient Funds
Every person:
-with the intent to defraud,
-makes, draws, or utters any check,
-knowing that there are insufficient funds to cover the check.
Classification: Felony (over $200)
Misdemeanor ($200 or under) |
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Entering and occupying real property
-without consent of the owner, owner's agent, or person in lawful possession
Trespass to land
-(see specific subsections)
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Prohibited Weapons
Any person who:
-manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or
-imports into the state, or
-sells, offers for sale, exposses for sale, keeps for sale, or gives, lends, or possesses
-any weapon specified within this penal code as prohibited.
Classification: Felony |
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Attempt to commit a crime
Every person:
-who attempts to commit any crime,
-but fails, or
-is prevented, or
-intercepted in its perpetration |
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Grand theft
-The taking and
-carring away of (assportation)
-personal property of another
-without consent of the owner, and
-with the intent to permantely deprive the owner.
Classification: Felony (over $400 and over) |
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Unlawful possession of a concealable firearm
Any person who:
-carries concealed
-a firearm that is capable of being concealed (loaded or unloaded)
-upon one's person, or
-within any vehicle under that person's control or direction,
-without a license.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Possession of switchblade knife
Any person who:
-possesses on one's person, or in the passenger's or driver's area of any motor vehicle in any public place, or place open to the public,
-sells, offers or exposes for sale, or
-loans, transfers, or gives away,
-a switchblade knife with a blade two or more inches in lenghth.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Embezzlement
-Fraudulent appropriation
-of property
-by a person
-to whom it has been trusted.
Classification: Felony ($400 and over)
Misdemeanor ($400 and under) |
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Discharging a Firearm in a Grossly negligent Manner
Any person who:
-except as otherwise authorized by law,
-willfully discharges a firearm
-in a grossly negligent manner
-which could result in injuy or death to a person.
Classification: Felony
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Appropriation of lost property
Every person:
-who finds lost property, and
-who appropriates such property to his own,
-without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner.
Classification: Felony (over $400)
Misdemeaner ($400 or under) |
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Receiving stolen property
Every person who:
-knowingly
-buys coma receivs, conceals, sells, withholds, or
-aids in the same,
-any property obtained by theft or extortion.
Classification: Felony |
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Carrying a Loaded Firearm
Any person who:
-Carries a loaded firearm
-on one's person or
-in a vehicle
-in:
-a public place, or
-on an public street in an incororated city.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Criminal Storage of a Firearm
-Keeps and loaded firearm within any premises that are under his/ her custody or control and
-he or she knows or reasonably know that a child is likely able to gain access to the firearm
-without the permission of the childs parent or legal gaudian and
-the child obtains access to the firearm and there by causes death or
-great bodily injury to himself/ herself or any other person. |
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Resisting an Officer
Every person who:
-willfully resists, delays, or obstructs
-any public officer, peaceofficer, or emergancy technician
-in the discharge or attempt of
-any duty of that office or employment.
Classification: Misdomeaner |
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Hate Crime - Enhancement
-A person who commits a felony that is a hate crime or
-attempts
-to commit a felony that is a hate crime,
-shall receive an additional term of one, two, or three years in the state prison, at the court's discretion. |
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Vouluntary Manslaughter
-The unlawful killing
-of a humanbeing
-without malice or
-conscious disregaurd for life
Classification: Felony |
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Muder
-The unlawful killing
-of a humanbeing or fetus
-with malice of forethouht
Classification: Felony |
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Tenant Lockout/ siezure of tenatn's property
Every person:
-using or procuring, encouraging or assissting another to use,
-any force or violence in entering upon or detaining any lands or other possessions of another,
-except in the cases and in the manner allowed by law.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Arson
Every person who:
-willfully and maliciously
-sets fire to or burns or causes to be burned or
-who aids, counsels, or procures the burning of, any structure, forrest land, or property.
Classification: Felony |
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Unlawfully Causing a Fire
Every person who:
-recklessly sets fire to or
-burns or causes to be burned,
any structure, forest land or property.
Classification: Felony
Property only: Misdemeanor |
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Possession of a fire bomb
-The possession, manufacture, or disposal of
-a flamable or conbustable material or substance,
-with the intent to willfully and maliciously use such material,
-to set fire to or burn any structure, forest land, or real property.
Classification: Felony |
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Attempt Arrson
-Any person who
-willfully and malisiously attempts to set fire to, or
-attempts to burn or to aid, counsel or procure the burning of
-any structure, forest land or property, or
-who commits any act preliminary thereto, or in furtherance there of.
Classification: Felony |
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Burglary
-Entry into a building or specified structure
-with the intent to commit
-grand or petty theft or any felony.
Classification: Felony |
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Possession of Burglary Tools
-The possession of certain tools, or
-knowingly making or attempting to make a key or other instrument,
-with the intent to break or enter into any specified structure,
-for the purpose of commiting any misdemeanor or felony,
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Speed
-No person
-May drive a vehicle
-upon a highway at a speed greater than 65 miles per hour. |
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Vehicle Registration
-No person shall drive, move, or leave standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility,
any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly,
unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid
-under this code or registers under the permanent trailer identification program. |
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Driving under the influence
-It is unlawful for any person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or
-under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug,
-to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle,
-which act or neglect proximately
-causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
Classification: Felony |
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Possession of Registration
-Every owner,
-upon receipt of a registration card,
-shall maintain the same or a facsimile copy thereof
-with the vehicle
-for which issued. |
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Duty to stop at the scene of an accident
-The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident
-reulting only in damage to any property, including vehicles, shall
-imediatly stop the vehicle at the nearest location that will not
-impede traffic or otherwise jeopardize the safety of other motoist
-and supply the required information.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Throwing substance at a vehicle
-Any person
-who throws any substance
-at a vehicle
-or any occupant thereof on a highway.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Stop Lamp Requirement
-Every motor vehicle which is not in combination with any other vehicle and every vehicle at the end of a combination of vehicles
-shall at all times be equipped with no less than two stop lamps
-mounted on the rear of the vehicle.
Classification: Infraction |
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Driving under the influence
-It is unlawful for any person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or
-under the combinded influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug,
-to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle,
-which act or neglect proximately
-causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
Classification: Felony |
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Speed Contest
-A person shall no engage in a motor vehicle speed contest
-on a highway;
-as used in this section, a motor vehicle speed contest includes a motor vehicle race against another vehicle, a clock, or other timing device.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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24600 VC
24600(b) CVC
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Tail lamp Requirement
Tail lamps
Tail lamps Red
-During darkness every motor vehicle
-which is not in combination with any other vehicle and
-every vehicle at the end of a combination of vehicles
-shall be equipped with no less than two lighted tail lamps
-mounted on the rear of the vehicle |
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24400 VC
24400(a)(1) CVC
24400(b)(2) CVC
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Headlight Requirement
Head lamps
Head lamps during darkness or inclement weather (wind shield wipers)
-During darkness and inclement weather,
-a motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle,
-shall be equipped with at least two lighted head lamps,
-with at least one on each side of the front of the vehicle. |
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Reckless Driving
Reckless Driving in a parking lot (offstreet parking facility)
-Any person who drives any vehicle upon a highway in
-willful or wanton disregaurd for the safety of persons or property is
-guilty of reckless driving.
Classification: Misdemeanor
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Suspended/ revoked license
-No person shall drive a motor vehicle
-at any time
-when that person's driving privilege
-is suspended or revoked.
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Basic Speed
- no person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway
-at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent
-having due regard for the weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of,
-the highway,
and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property
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Driving while in Possession of Alcoholic Beverage
-no person under the age of 21 years shall knowingly
-drive any motor vehicle carrying any alcoholic beverage,
-unless the person is accompanied by a parent, resposible adult, relative, or legal guardian for
-the purpose of transportation of an alcoholic beverage
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Driving Unlicensed
-a person may not drive a motor vehicle upon a highway,
-unless the person then holds a valid driver's license
-issued under this code,
-except those persons who are expressly exempted under this code
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Two Plates Required
-when two license plates are issued by the department
-for use upon a vehicle
-they shall be attached to the vehicle for which they were issued
-one in the front and
-the other in the rear |
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Stop Light Requirement
-a driver facing a steady circular red signal alone
-shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or,
-if none, then before entering the intersection, and
-shall remain stopped until an indication to proceed is shown |
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Driving under the influence
-it is unlawful for any person who
-isunder the influence
-of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or
-under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug,
-to drive a vehicle
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Possession of a Driver's License
-the licensee shall have the valid driver's license
-issued to him or her in his or her immediate possession at all times
-when driving a motor vehicle upon a highway
Classification: infraction |
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Stop Sign Requirement
-The driver of any vehicle approaching a stop sign
-at the enterance to, or within, an intersection, or railroad grade crossing
-shall stop at a limit line, if marked,
-otherwise before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection |
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Passenger in Possession of Alcoholic Beverage
-no passenger in any motor vehicle who is under the age of 21 years
-shall knowingly possess or have under that person's control
-any alcoholic beverage
-unless the person is accompanied by a parent, responsible adult relative, or legal guardian for
-the purpose of trasportation of an alcoholic beverage
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Evading an Officer
-any person who,
-while operating a motor vehicle and
-with the intent to evade,
-willfully flees or
-otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace offiver's motor vehicle
Classification: Misdemeanor |
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Resisting an Officer
Every person who attempts:
-by means of threat or violence,
-to deter or prevent
-any executive officer from the performance of their duties, or
-knowingly resists any officer,
-by the use of force or violence, in the performance of their duties
Classification: Felony
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Preventing or Dissuading a Witness / Victim from Testifying
Knowingly and maliciously preventing or dissuading, or attempting to do the same, a witness or victim from:
-attending or giving testimony at a trial, or
-reporting a crime to an official
-arresting or seeking the arrest of a subject
Classification: Felony
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Perjury
Every person who:
-willfully and contrary to the oath,
-testifies or states as true
-any material matter,
-which he or she knows to be false
Classification: Felony |
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Threats of Retaliation
Any person who:
-willfully uses force or threatens to use force or violence,
-or takes, damages, or destroys any property
-or any other person who is witness to, or a victim of, a crime,
-or provided any assistance or information to a law enforcement officer or prosecutor
Classification: Felony |
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