2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 2 - NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 4 - Offenses
Section 304.

Universal Citation:
CA Harb & Nav Code § 304 (2025)
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304. A person in command or charge of a vessel, who, within this state, willfully wrecks, sinks, or otherwise injures or destroys it or any of its cargo, or willfully permits the same to be wrecked, sunk, or otherwise injured or destroyed, with intent to prejudice or defraud a person, is guilty of a felony.

(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 610, Sec. 22. (SB 717) Effective January 1, 2010.)

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