Violation of Code
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case People v. Robert S. (1979)
Most recently applied in 105 Cal. App. 4th 636 - Venegas v. County of Los Angeles (April 2003)
Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1178.
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 violation of any of the following provisions shall constitute a misdemeanor, and not an infraction:
Section 10501, relating to false report of vehicle theft.
Sections 10750 and 10751, relating to altered or defaced vehicle identifying numbers.
Section 10851.5, relating to theft of binder chains.
Sections 10852 and 10853, relating to injuring or tampering with a vehicle.
Section 10854, relating to unlawful use of stored vehicle.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.