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2019 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 4 - Election Campaigns
ARTICLE 5 - Misrepresentation by Candidates
Section 18351.
Universal Citation: CA Elec Code § 18351 (2019)
18351.
Any candidate in an election or incumbent in a recall election who knowingly makes a false statement of a material fact in a candidate’s statement, prepared pursuant to Section 11327 or 13307, with the intent to mislead the voters in connection with his or her campaign for nomination or election to a nonpartisan office is punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
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