California
Penal Code – PC § 487c
PC § 487c. Conversion of real estate into personal property; Petty theft
Every person who converts real estate of the value of less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) into personal property by severance from the realty of another, and with felonious intent to do so steals, takes, and carries away that property is guilty of petty theft and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
History
Added Stats 1953 ch 32 § 8. Amended Stats 1982 ch 80 § 4; Stats 2000 ch 135 § 133 (AB 2539); Stats 2009–2010 3d Ex Sess ch 28 § 19 (SB 18XXX), effective January 25, 2010.
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