California Penal Code

§ 146a

PEN § 146a Effective Apr 4, 2011Title 7 · Part 1 · Ch. 7

Statute text

(a)Any person who falsely represents himself or herself to be a deputy or clerk in any state department and who, in that assumed character, does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or both the fine and imprisonment:

(1)Arrests, detains, or threatens to arrest or detain any person.

(2)Otherwise intimidates any person.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 256. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.