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2019 California Code
Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 7 - Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
ARTICLE 4 - Threats and Theft to Prevent Petition Circulation and Filing
Section 18630.
Universal Citation: CA Elec Code § 18630 (2019)
18630.
Every person who threatens to commit an assault or battery on a person circulating a referendum, initiative, or recall petition or on a relative of a person circulating a referendum, initiative, or recall petition or to inflict damage on the property of the circulator or the relative, with the intent to dissuade the circulator from circulating the petition or in retribution for the circulation, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
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