2016 California Code
Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 2 - REGULATION OF RELATED BUSINESSES BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 7 - Household Goods Carriers
ARTICLE 8 - Fines and Penalties
Section 5311.

5311. (a) Every household goods carrier and every officer, director, agent, or employee of any household goods carrier who violates or who fails to comply with, or who procures, aids, or abets any violation by any household goods carrier of any provision of this chapter, or who fails to obey, observe, or comply with any order, decision, rule, regulation, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission, or of any operating permit issued to any household goods carrier, or who procures, aids, or abets any household goods carrier in its failure to obey, observe, or comply with any such order, decision, rule, regulation, direction, demand, requirement, or operating permit, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or both. If a violation is willful, each willful violation is punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or both. If the violation involves operating or holding one s self out as a household goods carrier without a permit, the fine shall be not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(b) Any person who violates subdivision (a) of Section 5133, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or both, for each violation.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 544, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 2013.)