California · Penal Code

PEN §219.2: Every person who willfully throws, hurls, or projects a stone or other hard substance, or shoots a missile, at a train, locomotive, railway car, caboose, cable railway car, street railway car, or bus

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is illegal to intentionally throw stones, hard objects, or shoot projectiles at trains, railway cars, buses, or passenger vessels. Violators may be imprisoned up to one year, fined up to $2,000, or both.

Read the full statutory text

Every person who willfully throws, hurls, or projects a stone or other hard substance, or shoots a missile, at a train, locomotive, railway car, caboose, cable railway car, street railway car, or bus or at a steam vessel or watercraft used for carrying passengers or freight on any of the waters within or bordering on this state, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in a state prison, or by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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