California · Penal Code

PEN §146d: Every person who sells or gives to another a membership card, badge, or other device, where it can be reasonably inferred by the recipient that display of the device will have the result that the law

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is illegal to sell or give someone a card, badge, or device intended to suggest that displaying it will result in less rigorous law enforcement against that person.

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Every person who sells or gives to another a membership card, badge, or other device, where it can be reasonably inferred by the recipient that display of the device will have the result that the law will be enforced less rigorously as to such person than would otherwise be the case is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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