California Public Resources Code

§ 5097.993

PRC § 5097.993 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 5 · Ch. 1.76

Statute text

(a)(1) A person who unlawfully and maliciously excavates upon, removes, destroys, injures, or defaces a Native American historic, cultural, or sacred site, that is listed or may be eligible for listing in the California Register of Historic Resources pursuant to Section 5024.1, including any historic or prehistoric ruins, any burial ground, any archaeological or historic site, any inscriptions made by Native Americans at such a site, any archaeological or historic Native American rock art, or any archaeological or historic feature of a Native American historic, cultural, or sacred site, is guilty of a misdemeanor if the act was committed with specific intent to vandalize, deface, destroy, steal, convert, possess, collect, or sell a Native American historic, cultural, or sacred artifact, art object, inscription, or feature, or site, and the act was committed as follows:

(A)On public land.

(B)On private land, by a person, other than the landowner, as described in subdivision (b).

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Legislative history

Added by renumbering Section 5097.995 by Stats. 2004, Ch. 286, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 2005.