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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 18631.
Universal Citation: CA Elec Code § 18631 (2019)
18631.
Every person who forcibly or by stealth takes from the possession of a circulator any initiative, referendum, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)
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