California Penal Code

§ 487j

PEN § 487j Effective Jan 1, 2012Title 13 · Part 1 · Ch. 5

Statute text

Every person who steals, takes, or carries away copper materials of another, including, but not limited to, copper wire, copper cable, copper tubing, and copper piping, which are of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950) is guilty of grand theft. Grand theft of copper shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 and a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 317, Sec. 2. (AB 316) Effective January 1, 2012.