CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 812

Introduced by Assembly Member Cristina Garcia

February 16, 2021

An act to amend Section 485 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal law.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 812, as introduced, Cristina Garcia. Crimes: theft.
Existing law provides that a person is guilty of theft if the person finds lost property under circumstances that give them knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and if the person appropriates the property to their own use, or to the use of another person not entitled to the property, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to the owner.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 485 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

485.
 One A person who finds lost property under circumstances which that give him the person knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such that property to his their own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, to the property, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, the owner, is guilty of theft.