Penal Code § 285

Incest

Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry with each other, or who being 14 years of age or older, commit fornication or adultery with each other, are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison.

History

Enacted 1872. Amended Stats 1921 ch 101 § 1 p 96; Stats 1976 ch 1139 § 174, operative July 1, 1977; Stats 2005 ch 477 § 1 (SB 33), effective January 1, 2006.

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