California · Public Utilities Code - PUC

PUC §5411.3: Every charter-party carrier of passengers, and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a charter-party carrier of passengers, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other than one p

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

Charter-party passenger carriers and their officers who display unauthorized identifying symbols on vehicles or fail to remove symbols when ordered are guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to $2,500 in fines and/or one year in county jail.

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Every charter-party carrier of passengers, and every officer, director, agent, or employee of a charter-party carrier of passengers, who displays on any vehicle any identifying symbol other than one prescribed by the commission pursuant to Section 5385, or who fails to remove an identifying symbol when required by the commission, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both.

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