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2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 9 - ANIMALS GENERALLY
PART 2 - UNLAWFUL MARKING AND BRANDING
CHAPTER 2 - Violations
Section 17552.
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CA Food & Agri Code § 17552 (2025)
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17552. It is unlawful for any person, with the intent to steal any sheep, goat, hog, shoat, or pig, or prevent its identification by the true owner, to do any of the following:
(a) Mark or brand such an animal with any brand or mark except the recorded brand or brand and mark of the owner of the animal.
(b) Alter or deface a brand or mark on such an animal.
(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
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