California · Penal Code
PEN §129: Every person who, being required by law to make any return, statement, or report, under oath, willfully makes and delivers any such return, statement, or report, purporting to be under oath, knowing t
Felony
What this law says, in plain English
Perjury is committed when someone willfully makes and delivers a false statement required by law to be under oath, knowing it is false.
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Every person who, being required by law to make any return, statement, or report, under oath, willfully makes and delivers any such return, statement, or report, purporting to be under oath, knowing the same to be false in any particular, is guilty of perjury, whether such oath was in fact taken or not.
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