Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 4th 1069 - Tobe v. City of Santa Ana (1995)
Most recently applied in 75 F. Supp. 3d 1193 - Campbell v. Feld Entertainment, Inc. (December 2014)
Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 122.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Every person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the free movement of any person on any street, sidewalk, or other public place or on or in any place open to the public is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Nothing in this section affects the power of a county or a city to regulate conduct upon a street, sidewalk, or other public place or on or in a place open to the public.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.