Every officer of this state, or of any county, city, city and county, or other municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, and every deputy, clerk, or servant of that officer, and every officer, director, trustee, clerk, servant, or agent of any association, society, or corporation (public or private), who fraudulently appropriates to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of that person’s trust, any property in his or her possession or under his or her control by virtue of that trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to that use or purpose, is guilty of embezzlement.
Cal. Penal Code § 504
Embezzlement
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Federal Election Commission v. Toledano (2002)
Most recently applied in 218 Cal. Rptr. 3d 852 - IAR Sys. Software, Inc. v. Superior Court of San Mateo Cnty. (June 2017)
Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 787, Sec. 13
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