Any person who wilfully wears the badge, lapel button, rosette, or any part of the garb, robe, habit, or any other recognized and established insignia or apparel of any secret society, or fraternal or religious order or organization, or of any sect, church or religious denomination, or uses the same to obtain aid or assistance within this State, with intent to deceive, unless entitled to wear and use the same under the constitution, by-laws or rules and regulations, or other laws or enactments of such society, order, organization, sect, church or religious denomination is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Penal Code § 538b
False Personation and Cheats
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge v. Most Worshipful Sons of Light Grand Lodge (1949)
Most recently applied in Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge v. Most Worshipful Sons of Light Grand Lodge (October 1949)
Amended by Stats. 1937, Ch. 255.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.