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2021 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Section 2.

Universal Citation:
CA Penal Code § 2 (2021)
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2.  

This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock, noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

(Enacted 1872.)

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