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2018 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions
Section 18002.
Universal Citation: CA Elec Code § 18002 (2018)
18002.
Every person charged with the performance of any duty under any law of this state relating to elections, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform it, or who, in his or her official capacity, knowingly and fraudulently acts in contravention or violation of any of those laws, is, unless a different punishment is prescribed by this code, punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 57. (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.)
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