California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §19277.1: Every household mover, and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a household mover, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other than the symbol prescribed by the bureau pursuant

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A household mover or its officer, director, agent, or employee who displays an unauthorized vehicle symbol or fails to remove a required symbol commits a misdemeanor punishable by up to $1,000 fine and/or up to one year in county jail.

Read the full statutory text

Every household mover, and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a household mover, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other than the symbol prescribed by the bureau pursuant to Section 19236 or who fails to remove an identifying symbol when required by the bureau, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or both.

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