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California Penal Code

§ 526

PEN § 526 Effective Jan 1, 2018Title 13 · Part 1 · Ch. 7
Any person, who, with intent to obtain from another person any property or other consideration, delivers or causes to be delivered to the other person any paper, document or written, typed or printed form purporting to be an order or other process of a court, or designed or calculated by its writing, typing or printing, or the arrangement thereof, to cause or lead the other person to believe it to be an order or other process of a court, when in fact such paper, document or written, typed or printed form is not an order or process of a court, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and each separate delivery of any paper, document or written, typed or printed form shall constitute a separate offense.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 518, Sec. 5. (SB 500) Effective January 1, 2018.

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