California · Financial Code

FIN §23065: Any person, including a partner or officer of an entity that is a licensee, who willfully violates any provision of this division or who willfully violates any rule or order adopted pursuant to this d

Misdemeanor

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A person who willfully violates provisions of this division or adopted rules/orders may be fined up to $10,000, imprisoned in county jail up to one year, or both. Imprisonment requires knowledge of the rule or order violated.

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Any person, including a partner or officer of an entity that is a licensee, who willfully violates any provision of this division or who willfully violates any rule or order adopted pursuant to this division, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. However, no person may be imprisoned for the violation of any rule or order unless he or she had knowledge of the rule or order. Conviction under this section shall not preclude the commissioner from exercising the authority in Article 1 (commencing with Section 23045).

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