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2011 California Code
Corporations Code
TITLE 1. CORPORATIONS [100 - 14551]
CHAPTER 18. Crimes and Penalties
Section 12679


CA Corp Code § 12679 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Any person violating Section 12311, and any corporation carrying on business outside the purpose for which it was formed, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1625, Sec. 3. Operative January 1, 1984.)

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