BILL NUMBER: SB 1459	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 404 of the Penal Code, relating to
disturbing the public peace.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1459, as introduced, Price. Disturbing the public peace.
   Existing law establishes various offenses for disturbing the
public peace, including that any use of force or violence, disturbing
the public peace, or any threat to use force or violence, if
accompanied by immediate power of execution, by 2 or more persons
acting together, and without authority of law, is a riot.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 404 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   404.  (a) Any use of force or violence, disturbing the public
peace, or any threat to use force or violence, if  it is 
accompanied by immediate power of execution, by two or more persons
acting together, and without authority of law, is a riot.
   (b) As used in this section, disturbing the public peace may occur
in any place of confinement. Place of confinement means any state
prison, county jail, industrial farm, or road camp, or any city jail,
industrial farm, or road camp, or any juvenile hall, juvenile camp,
juvenile ranch, or juvenile forestry camp.