California Penal Code

§ 653h

PEN § 653h Effective Apr 4, 2011Title 15 · Part 1 · Ch. 2

Statute text

(a)Every person is guilty of a public offense punishable as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), who:

(1)Knowingly and willfully transfers or causes to be transferred any sounds that have been recorded on a phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film or other article on which sounds are recorded, with intent to sell or cause to be sold, or to use or cause to be used for commercial advantage or private financial gain through public performance, the article on which the sounds are so transferred, without the consent of the owner.

(2)Transports for monetary or like consideration within this state or causes to be transported within this state any such article with the knowledge that the sounds thereon have been so transferred without the consent of the owner.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 433. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.