California · Penal Code

PEN §173: Every Captain, Master of a vessel, or other person, who willfully imports, brings, or sends, or causes or procures to be brought or sent, into this State, any person who is a foreign convict of any cr

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is a misdemeanor to knowingly bring or cause to be brought into the state any person who is a foreign convict of a crime that would be punishable in the state, or anyone delivered from out-of-state confinement.

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Every Captain, Master of a vessel, or other person, who willfully imports, brings, or sends, or causes or procures to be brought or sent, into this State, any person who is a foreign convict of any crime which, if committed within this State, would be punishable therein (treason and misprision of treason excepted), or who is delivered or sent to him from any prison or place of confinement in any place without this State, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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