California
Penal Code – PC § 519
PC § 519. Threats
Fear, such as will constitute extortion, may be induced by a threat of any of the following:
1. To do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the individual threatened or of a third person.
2. To accuse the individual threatened, or a relative of his or her, or a member of his or her family, of a crime.
3. To expose, or to impute to him, her, or them a deformity, disgrace, or crime.
4. To expose a secret affecting him, her, or them.
5. To report his, her, or their immigration status or suspected immigration status.
History
Enacted Stats 1872. Amended Stats 1939 ch 601 § 2; Stats 2013 ch 572 § 1 (AB 524), effective January 1, 2014; Stats 2014 ch 71 § 123 (SB 1304), effective January 1, 2015.
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