Penal Codes Flashcards
P.C. 459
Burglary
Every person who enters any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel…with intent to commit grand or petit larceny or any felony is guilty of burglary.”1
PC 470
Forgery
knowingly do any of the following, intending to commit a fraud:
Sign someone else’s name,
Fake a seal or someone else’s handwriting,
Change or falsify any legal document (like a will or a deed), or
Fake, alter, or present as genuine a false document pertaining to money, finances, or property (like a check or a promissory note).
Pc 530.5
Identity Theft
the taking of another person’s personal identifying information for use in an unlawful or fraudulent manner.1 This means the “unauthorized use of personal identifying information to obtain credit, goods, services, or medical information in the name of another person.”
VC 10851
Grand Theft Auto (GTA)
the California statute that makes it a crime for a person to drive or take someone else’s vehicle without that person’s consent. These cases also require that the offender have the specific intent to deny the vehicle’s owner of possession of the vehicle.
PC 503
Embezzlement
The crime of embezzlement in California is defined as fraudulently appropriating property thatbelongs to someone else, and has been entrusted to you.
Example: not returning a rental car or uhaul.
Or stealing from a store you work at.
Pc 488
Petty Theft
Theft under the amount of $950
Example: stealing a bike from your front yard.
Or stealing a cell phone from your unlocked car.
Pc 487
Grand Theft
The crime of theft in California law is defined as the unlawful taking of someone else’s property.
And when the property taken is valued at more than nine hundred fifty dollars ($950), then the theft is considered the California crime of grand theft under Penal Code 487
Vc 22751k
(k) When a vehicle is parked or left standing upon a highway for 72 or more consecutive hours in violation of a local ordinance authorizing removal.
