Bill Text: CA AB2801 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 549, Statutes of 2018. [AB2801 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2801-Chaptered.html
| Assembly Bill No. 2801 |
| CHAPTER 549 |
An act to amend Section 621 of the Penal Code, relating to memorials.
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Approved by
Governor
September 19, 2018.
Filed with
Secretary of State
September 19, 2018.
]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2801, Salas.
Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person to destroy, cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any tomb, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veterans’ memorial constructed or established in specified ways. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any law enforcement memorial or firefighter’s memorial.
This bill would specify that the provisions above regarding law enforcement and firefighter’s memorials do not preclude prosecution under any other provision of law, including those regarding veterans’ memorials.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 621 of the Penal Code is amended to read:621.
(a) Every person who maliciously destroys, cuts, breaks, mutilates, effaces, or otherwise injures, tears down, or removes any law enforcement memorial or firefighter’s memorial is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 or by imprisonment in a county jail for less than one year.(b) This section does not preclude prosecution under any other provision of law, including Section 1318 of the Military and Veterans Code.
