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AB 2801: Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.

  • Session Year: 2017-2018
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2018-09-19
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Existing law makes it a crime for a person to destroy, cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any tomb, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veterans memorial constructed or established in specified ways. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any law enforcement memorial or firefighters memorial.

This bill would specify that the provisions above regarding law enforcement and firefighters memorials do not preclude prosecution under any other provision of law, including those regarding veterans memorials.

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Assembly Floor 51SEC
Aug 20, 2018

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