California · Penal Code
PEN §610: Every person who unlawfully masks, alters, or removes any light or signal, or willfully exhibits any light or signal, with intent to bring any vessel into danger, is punishable by imprisonment pursuan
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A person who unlawfully masks, alters, removes, or willfully exhibits lights or signals with intent to endanger a vessel commits a felony punishable by imprisonment.
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