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California Penal Code

§ 621

PEN § 621 Effective Jan 1, 2019Title 14 · Part 1

Statute text

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(a)Every person who maliciously destroys, cuts, breaks, mutilates, effaces, or otherwise injures, tears down, or removes any law enforcement memorial or firefighter’s memorial is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 or by imprisonment in a county jail for less than one year.
(b)This section does not preclude prosecution under any other provision of law, including Section 1318 of the Military and Veterans Code.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 549, Sec. 1. (AB 2801) Effective January 1, 2019.

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