Reports of Stolen Vehicles
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 52 Cal. 4th 81 - People v. Murphy (2011)
Most recently applied in 244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 380 - People v. Joseph (March 2019)
Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 601
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.
(a) It is unlawful for any person to make or file a false or fraudulent report of theft of a vehicle required to be registered under this code with any law enforcement agency with intent to deceive.
(b) If a person has been previously convicted of a violation of subdivision (a), he or she is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months, or two or three years, or in a county jail for not to exceed one year.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.