California · Penal Code

PEN §483: Except as otherwise provided in Section 26002.

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person commits a misdemeanor by selling transportation tickets, passes, or similar instruments to someone not entitled to use them under the terms of the document.

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Except as otherwise provided in Section 26002.5 of the Government Code and Sections 40180.5 and 99151 of the Public Utilities Code, any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that shall sell to another any ticket, pass, scrip, mileage or commutation book, coupon, or other instrument for passage on a common carrier, for the use of any person not entitled to use the same according to the terms thereof, or of the book or portion thereof from which it was detached, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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