California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §21805: Any person who buys, sells, receives, transfers, or possesses for purposes of sale or rental an optical disc knowing that the identification mark required by this chapter has been removed, defaced, co

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person commits a misdemeanor by knowingly buying, selling, receiving, transferring, or possessing optical discs for sale or rental with removed, defaced, or false identification marks.

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Any person who buys, sells, receives, transfers, or possesses for purposes of sale or rental an optical disc knowing that the identification mark required by this chapter has been removed, defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed, or knowing it was manufactured in California without the required identification mark, or knowing it was manufactured in California with a false identification mark is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a term not exceeding one year, or by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.

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