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California Penal Code

§ 617

PEN § 617 Effective Apr 4, 2011Title 14 · Part 1

Statute text

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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, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 417. (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.

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