California Penal Code

§ 597c

PEN § 597c Effective Jan 1, 2013Title 14 · Part 1

Statute text

Any person who is knowingly present as a spectator at any place, building, or tenement for an exhibition of animal fighting, or who is knowingly present at that exhibition or is knowingly present where preparations are being made for the acts described in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 597b, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 133, Sec. 2. (SB 1145) Effective January 1, 2013.